“If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it.” — Charles Bukowski
For the last two years, the Fundamentalised newsletter has evolved to be the best place to learn my unfiltered lessons and hear the anecdotes of an ambitious 21 year-old beginning to stumble through adult life.
It started at the end of May 2023, back when I wrote regularly on Medium, where I was sharing (and still do share) my ideas about productivity, creativity and living a fulfilled life.
In those days, all I knew was that I was supposed to capture emails from those reading my work. I had no idea where to take things with writing online.
The newsletter was simply an extension of my article-writing endeavours. The content I was sharing with subscribers was indistinguishable from the other stuff I was sharing more widely on other platforms. But eventually, the issues differentiated themselves into their own class of content.
So what do I write about now?
It varies. This newsletter has become an outlet for my more personal and informal writing, which I’ve been wanting to share simply because I think it sometimes contains useful or interesting ideas. There needed to be a space that allowed me to create work that didn’t really fit into the frame of the business.
The name Fundamentalised sets it out as well as anything (and yes I’m from the UK so it is Fundamentalised with an S, not a Z) - I believe the value to be found in life comes from doing a few things (fundamentals) well. There’s also the idea that the best way to tackle a more complicated problem is to break it down into constituent parts so that it’s ‘Fundamentalised’ if you will.
So I share insights into whatever I’m trying to ‘Fundamentalise’ at the time of writing, adding useful links to the other work I’ve published over the week, as well as links to things I’ve consumed and found useful or interesting.
