Welcome to the 36th Episode of the Ark Digest™️.

Every week, I share the unfiltered reality of building Noah's Ark, the wins, the struggles, and the insights that emerge when building a profitable and purposeful creator business.

Inside each Digest, you'll see:

↱ Real progress updates on my current projects

↱ Raw thoughts and breakthrough moments

↱ Weekly inspiration fueling my journey

↱ Lessons you can steal for your own path

↱ Data from tracking my habits and productivity

Think of this as a direct line into my mind as I build my dream creator business, so you get inspired and motivated to progress on your own journey.

Let's begin:

🐺 Current Tasks & Projects

1) The course: all scripts done

It's been a while since I sent an email, and honestly, since I created any content at all.
I was mostly focused on my upcoming course on Obsidian and Claude Code, and taking care of my coaching clients.
But I've made real progress on the course:

I've finished writing all the scripts for every module.
There are more than six sections, and each section contains between five and ten modules, so the scale of this course is completely different from anything I've put out on Noah's Ark before.
Now the big remaining task is the recording.

2) The Obsidian basics video

A YouTube script has been ready for two weeks, and I'm planning to finally publish the video this week.
It covers all the fundamentals of Obsidian to help you learn and understand the tool.
I think it's going to help a lot of you who haven't fully grasped Obsidian yet.
Because there's no point in having AI connected to your second brain if you don't know how to use the second brain itself.

3) Scott's breakthrough

My client Scott recently sent me a message that genuinely made my day:

He's been working intensively these past three weeks on building his second brain and integrating it with AI.
Scott wasn't the most comfortable with technology at the start, so it was genuinely challenging for him at first to learn Obsidian, the second brain system I've developed, and Claude Code connected to it.
But after three sessions together, he finally had the breakthrough moment where he understood the full power of having a second brain connected to AI, and he can really feel what that's unlocked in him.
That makes me extremely happy.
And it confirms that I'm able to teach this system even to people who aren't already experts in Obsidian or AI before starting.
That's also why I think the course is going to be a real game changer:

It goes so deep into every aspect that even if you have zero technical background, you'll be able to learn and implement the system directly from it.

4) One coaching spot available

I currently have 2 individual coaching spots available.
Sp if you're interested in building your own AI second brain, growing your creator business, or learning personal growth systems like the Zettelkasten method like Scott...

Reply "coaching" to this email, and I'll send you the details of my one-on-one offer.
If it fits what you're looking for, we'll schedule a call to get to know each other, confirm we're a good fit, and define the scope of the coaching together.

Personal Update

1) The creative and energy slump

To be honest with you, I hit a creative and energy slump over these past few weeks, and that's a big part of why I went quiet.
The sheer amount of work behind the course was enormous, and it ended up discouraging me from working on it.
I also noticed a pattern in myself:

I tend to be someone who gets very fired up about a project for a relatively short period of time, and then after a certain point, I start to lose that initial energy, and from there it becomes hard to get back into it.

That's exactly what happened with the Sovereign Second Brain Course.
I created a lot of content around it, worked intensively on the course, was fully into it at the start.
But at some point the novelty started to fade.
I found myself in a place where I'd basically mastered the system and was using it day to day, so I had less of that original excitement I had when I first discovered it.
And that made it harder to keep creating around it.

After talking about this with someone, they pointed out that I had the "30km syndrome" that marathon runners experience.
And honestly, that's exactly it:
You start strong, carry the momentum, and then somewhere in the middle the wall hits.
That's why I think after I finish working on the course, I'll get back to creating shorter, more focused courses on specific systems or aspects of content creation, learning, online business etc, like I did last year.
Combining this with coaching 2/3 individual clients in 1:1 coaching feels like the right sweet spot for how I like to work and how my brain works overall, while being profitable.
Once again, self knowledge is the most valuable info as a creator to be able to build a business that's aligned with yourself and how you work.
But to get that knowledge, you gotta try different stuff to see what suits you or not, which is all part of the process.

2) What a slump teaches you about being a creator

This feels like a good opportunity to talk about the real difficulty of staying consistent as a creator while also building products and taking care of clients at the same time.
Even with AI, even with well-built systems, there's one thing that can always fail you:
Yourself, your mental health, your daily energy, and your inspiration.
Unfortunately, no matter how many systems you have to support you, if those things are missing, you're going to feel it.

Now, I think it's completely normal as a creator to have break periods and have stretches where you're less consistent, and that's okay.
And as a reader and follower of creators, I also think we need to accept that the people we follow are human: they have moments of high inspiration where they put out a lot of content, and moments of lower inspiration where they're less productive.

Technically, I have the systems to create daily content in 30 minutes to an hour.
But if I feel like I have nothing new to say, nothing interesting to share, no topic that actually inspires me to talk about, then even if it takes no time, I don't want to do it.
I don't want to create content just to create content, going through the motions without feeling genuinely driven by what I'm saying.
That was also part of what kept me quiet these past weeks.

But this break gave me the chance to step back, rest, take care of my coaching clients, and keep advancing on the course.
And now I'm genuinely motivated to get back to creating: emails, YouTube videos, and continuing to build Noah's Ark forward.

3) This Week's Focus

This week, my main focus is a big recording sprint.
Because I don't want to lose momentum again, I'm going to concentrate mostly on getting through all the modules and finishing the course.
The target is a May launch.

I'm also getting back into content creation in general:
Emails, YouTube videos, and publishing that Obsidian basics video this week.

If you have questions or content topics you'd like to see me cover in the coming days and weeks, don't hesitate to reply and share them.
I'll note everything, it genuinely helps me get back into the rhythm of creating, and more importantly, to create things that actually serve you.

Thanks for reading this 36th episode of the Ark Digest™️.

If any part of this resonated with you, hit reply and let me know what you're building.
I respond to every email and I love chatting with you. Last time I got dozens of responses and it genuinely warms my heart.
It reminds me that we're really a community, together in this entrepreneurial adventure.

As always, I wish you the best on your own journey…
And welcome back to the Ark,
Noah.