Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 01/03/26

Updated: Tue, 01/06/26

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥩 What (not) to do this year:

Hello 2026!

If you're already feeling behind (you're not), let me help catch you up.

Drop: seed oils
Add: steak

If you're more ambitious:

Drop: snoring (shameless plug to emphasize better sleep :)
Add: sun

If you're feeling super ambitious this New Year:

Drop: (doom) scrolling
Add: steel (i.e. resistance training)

📝 How to do it yourself:

If you don't like my suggestions (or if you already do all that), just ask and answer these questions for yourself:

What created energy for me this year?
What drained energy?

Who lifted me up?
Who was an anchor?

Where did I take action?
What didn't I do out of fear?

With these in mind, watch this video and win in 2026.

How to Actually Crush Your 2026 Goals (Evidence-Based)

The GPS System to Achieving your Goals:

Goal
1. What is it and why is it important to you?
Plan
1. What are the key action(s) you can realistically take?
System
1. Schedule the action(s), track your progress, stick to the plan

To predict if you'll be successful, just look at your calendar.

🏆 What's the best of 2025:

I'm a sucker for "the best of" listicles.

Books

I haven't read any of the books on these lists, but I did read (and re-read) an older, esoteric book in 2025 that I'll be talking much more about, so stay tuned...

Photos

Time's Top 100 photos of 2025.
Nature's Photographer of the Year winners.
Reuters' top photos of the year.
My top photo.

Video

The Year on YouTube.
FYI - In the second half of 2026, I'm going to get back to YouTube (subscribe now :)

💡 Did it happen:

Predictions about what was supposed to happen by 2025 from 100 years ago.

Best way to predict the future is to create it.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

– Maya Angelou

🥧 What will grow:

There are roughly $261 trillion in global investable assets.

Bitcoin accounts for only about 0.5% of that total.

In an era of financial repression, where inflation persistently exceeds bond yields and real returns on debt are structurally negative, capital has little choice but to seek refuge in hard, scarce assets, like gold and Bitcoin.