Bella's Blog

When I have questions, I defer to notes I've taken, books I've read, podcasts I've listened to, and people I admire.

Quitting? - my notes on The Dip, Late Bloomers, my notes on The Intuition Toolkit: The New Science of Knowing What Without Knowing Why

Decision-Making? - my notes on Fear of Missing Out, my podcast notes featuring Derek Sivers, my notes on The Intuition Toolkit: The New Science of Knowing What Without Knowing Why, my notes on The Renaissance Soul, The Renaissance Soul worksheets/exercises, my personal notes on intuition

How to approach a task?? - notes on Essentialism, notes on The End of Procrastination, notes on The Twelve Monotasks, notes on Effortless, The End of Procrastination worksheets/exercises, my notes on Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking

How to approach life? - my notes on The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard, notes on The Courage To Be Disliked, notes on How To Live, notes on Choose Yourself, advice from James Altucher, advice from Scott Galloway, advice from Jean-Paul Sartre, advice from Kathryn Kellogg, my notes on The Renaissance Soul, my notes on Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking, my notes on The Twelve Monotasks, The Twelve Monotasks exercises, How To Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women, Parisian Chic: A Style Guide by Ines de la Fressange, This is A Good Guide for A Sustainable Lifestyle, my goal-setting-specific Spotify playlist, my culture-specific Spotify playlist

Advice on side hustles, specifically blogging? - advice from Ryan Robinson, my money-making-specific Spotify playlist

Advice on writing? - advice from James Altucher, my notes on The Art and Business of Online Writing: How To Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention, my writing-specific, money-making-specific Spotify playlist

Advice on burnout recovery and rest? - my notes on Tired as Fuck: Burnout At the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture, my notes on Burnout, my notes on Can't Even: How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, Burnout worksheets/exercises

Advice on learning? - advice from Jonathan Levi, advice from Scott Young, Ultra-Learning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, Accelerate Your Career, my notes on The Only Skill That Matters, my study-specific Spotify playlist, my accelerated learning notes, my language learning notes, my notes on Language is Music

How to approach digital life? - Digital Minimalism: Choosing A Focused Life in a Noisy World, the writings of Jess Henderson, my notes on Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to Creative Work

To understand the digital age? - my notes on 100 Things We've Lost To The Internet, the writings of Nicolas Carr, my notes on The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains, the writings of Michael Harris, my notes on The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection, my future economy-specific Spotify playlist

To understand women’s issues? - Feminism for Women, the writings of Julie Bindel, the podcast episodes of Whitney Cummings, the podcast episodes of Taylor Ferber, my notes on Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno, the writings of Nancy Jo Sales, my relationships-specific Spotify playlist, my culture-specific Spotify playlist

Stories from my virtual mentors and interesting humans? - my interesting humans-specific Spotify playlist

Physical health? - my keto/carnivore-specific Spotify playlist, my notes on clean eating

Car-free living? - my notes on How to Live Well Without A Car

How to be an existentialist? - my personal notes on existentialism, my notes on the booklet The Ultimate Guide to Existentialism, my notes on existentialism articles

How to create a wardrobe? - my personal notes on Kibbe Style and creating a wardrobe

Dating? - the podcast Sex Cells, my notes on Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno, my notes on Make Your Move, my relationships-specific Spotify playlist, How To Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women, my podcast notes

Sex and Orgasm? - the Omgyes website, notes from Becoming Cliterate, my notes on Come As You Are: The Surprising Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, the podcast How C*m, my sexuality-specific Spotify playlist, the podcast Sex Cells, Come As You Are exercises, my podcast notes

How to approach finances? - my notes on The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich To Live Rich, advice from David Bach

How to approach career? - my notes on The Education of Millionaires, advice from Michael Ellsberg, advice from Dan Koe, advice from Scott Galloway, my personal notes on getting a career, networking, self-promotion, my podcast notes