🌱 KSS your life (Keep, Stop, Start)

Hey friends.

Welcome to edition #150 of the newsletter. Every. Single. Sunday. No missed weeks. 

But enough about me…This newsletter is about YOU. 🫡

3 nuggets, in 3 minutes. Vamos.  

✅ KSS: Projects

We do KSS (Keep, Stop, Start) every half at AppSumo to (re)assess how we spend time/energy. 

It’s a quick check-in on: 

• Current things we want to keep? 

• Current things we want to stop?  

• New things we want to start? 

It’s the natural extension of my favorite 3 questions: 

• What’s working? (keep)

• What’s not working (stop)

• What did I learn for next time (start)

🤔 KSS: People

KSS is a handy frame I’ve used in another lens.

I noticed a theme with the people I get along with best.

They have:

• Started something (a business, a blog, a creative passion, etc.)

• Stopped something (after taking action and starting, they reassessed) 

• Kept doing something (because they were naturally pulled into it  and it lights them up) 

Ultimately I LOVE connecting with people who find their own path and continue to try things and genuinely enjoy what they do. 

I attend many events and often meet new people, so it’s helpful to understand who I connect best with and why. 

Who do you connect best with? Have you started/stopped/kept doing something? Holler at me in the reply.

🥾 New Pod: Pathless Paul

Paul Millerd is one of my favorite people and authors who writes about how he took a different path to find his best good work. 

He wrote the book The Pathless Path, but I ignored it at first because I thought the title sounded like “settling” or lacking ambition. (boo)

However, carving a non-default path is one of the most ambitious things you can do. 

Anyone I meet who also resonated with Paul’s writing is someone I instantly connect deeply with. 

I interviewed Paul in Austin earlier this year on:

• The “Ship, Quit, and Learn” framework to find meaningful work

• Redefining your story and finding freedom

• Finding your “Pathless Friends”

Check out the episode here (on podcast or YouTube).

Also, he just released his new book Good Work, which I just started and can’t put down. 

Salud,
Mitchell 

Ps. Song of the week: NoHo by Rhan Harper, Cam Will.
Pair w/ a coffee and any project you want to bulldoze through. 💪