NOTE: Right now, I’m not writing or recording new Fundamentalised issues. Click ‘Hiatus’ above to learn more about why this is.

“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 brand has included talking about my life and its learning lessons, here on this newsletter, and teaching people about productivity and personal knowledge management, over at PARAZETTEL.

You can find out more about PARAZETTEL on its own site, so I won’t bore you by speaking about it. But what is this publication specifically?

It started as a newsletter, back when I wrote regularly on Medium, sharing my ideas about productivity, creativity and living a fulfilled lifestyle with my audience there.

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.