🧠 Quote of the Week
*“The real reason you’re tired all the time isn’t your workload — it’s your open loops.
The text you haven’t answered. The apology you owe. The decision you’re avoiding.
The conversation you keep postponing.
These run in the background of your mind all day, draining your battery.
Close your loops. Watch your energy return.
Mental clutter is more exhausting than physical work ever will be.”*
— Scott D. Clary
🚀 CANVA JUST WENT SUPER
🔥 Confession Time:
I’ve been a power user of the Adobe Suite for years — Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, you name it.But over the past year… something happened.
I found myself opening Canva more than anything else.Why? Because it’s just so damn easy.
And now — after their Visual Suite 2.0 launch — Canva might’ve officially graduated from “cute design app” to “creative operating system.”
🎨 1. ONE DESIGN TO RULE THEM ALL
Meet the new “Visual Suite” — one unified file where docs, presentations, spreadsheets, whiteboards, videos, and websites live together in harmony.
💡 Example: You could have your podcast deck, content calendar, YouTube thumbnails, and landing page — all in one single Canva file.No more bouncing between PowerPoint, Sheets, and Figma. It’s all here.
📊 2. CANVA SHEETS: DATA, BUT MAKE IT SEXY
Finally — spreadsheets that don’t look like a migraine.
Canva Sheets brings live data connectors (think Google Analytics, HubSpot, Statista) and AI-powered insights.
✨ Magic Insights finds trends automatically.🧠 Magic Formulas write your functions for you.🎨 Magic Charts turn data into dynamic visuals.
Perfect for content tracking, podcast analytics, or that “look how smart I am” deck.
💻 3. CANVA CODE: BUILD WITHOUT CODING
Prompt → boom → interactive widget, landing page, or app.
Canva Code is a generative-AI playground where you can design logic-based or interactive experiences without touching a single bracket.
Think: interactive newsletter landing pages, audience quizzes, or podcast promo sites — all inside Canva.
🤖 4. AI GETS A MAJOR GLOW-UP
Canva’s “Magic Studio” got turbocharged.You can now:
Prompt designs via text or voice
Auto-remove objects and fix lighting
Create campaign versions at scale (“Magic Studio at Scale”)
For you, that means faster podcast thumbnails, slicker video stills, and easier brand consistency across all your content.
🧠 5. TEAMWORK THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
Canva now behaves like a full creative suite — docs, comments, tasks, and real-time editing across everything.
Marketers and creators can finally:✅ Keep brand kits in one file✅ Build multi-format campaigns✅ Collaborate without chaos
⚡ HOW YOU CAN USE THIS (YEAH, YOU)
You’re already creating podcasts, videos, and marketing decks — here’s how this changes the game for you:
🎬 Batch production made easy: Keep your master file with podcast assets, YouTube thumbs, social carousels — all together.📅 Plan smarter: Use Canva Sheets for content calendars + performance tracking.🌐 Launch faster: Build landing pages or interactive content with Canva Code.🧩 Streamline decks: Create your next Twiz or Benatar Brands deck without hopping apps.
🗓️ TIMING & ACCESS
Announced: April 10, 2025, at Canva Create.Rollout: Gradual — some features still in beta or pro-tier only.
✅ PROS
Huge productivity boost 🚀
AI + data + creativity under one roof
Seamless multi-platform scaling
⚠️ WATCH OUT
Some features are paywalled (enterprise only)
Still not replacing Excel or actual code for deep work
Expect a short learning curve as workflows evolve
🔮 FINAL TAKE
Canva’s not just competing with Figma or Adobe anymore — they’re building the Apple of creative tools.If you’re a content creator, marketer, or founder... this is your sign to go all-in.
👀 TL;DR:Design. Data. Code. All in one tab.Welcome to Canva 2.0.
💎 Cool Thing of the Week: Public.Works
You know how I’m always stumbling across random internet gems? Well, here’s one that’s become my new obsession: Public.Works.
It’s like walking through an art gallery built by the internet’s best creative weirdos — except everything is downloadable.
🎨 You can:
Browse museum-quality AI-inspired art 🖼️
Download it for free and print it yourself
Or even buy official prints that look insane on your wall
I’ve been using it for AI art inspiration lately, but it’s also a killer spot for unique gifts. Think of this as a sneak peek of my upcoming Holiday Gift Guide (dropping soon 🎁).
So if you’re the kind of person who likes owning things no one else has — this is your playground.
👉 Go explore: public.works
The Books Everyone Says Changed Their Life
Love this kind of data 📈 — it’s like peeking into the collective mind of the internet to see what really moved people.
Here’s what the chart is showing:👉 Y-axis: % of reviews calling a book “life-changing.”👉 X-axis (log scale): Number of total reviews — so popular books appear farther right, while niche ones are on the left.
A few highlights from the chart:
🧘♂️ Autobiography of a Yogi and New Earth have a ton of reviews and a high “life-changing” percentage.
📖 Remembering Wholeness leads the pack — nearly 20% of reviewers said it changed their life.
🧠 Man’s Search for Meaning, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Nonviolent Communication are also high-impact favorites.
💰 Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Fountainhead have tons of readers but fewer call them “life-changing.”
🧙♂️ Even Harry Potter makes the cut — lots of reviews, fewer calling it transformative (still, it clearly shaped a generation).
As for me — I’ve read:✅ Man’s Search for Meaning✅ The Power of Your Subconscious Mind✅ The Catcher in the Rye✅ Rich Dad, Poor Dad✅ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Five total from this chart — but Man’s Search for Meaning easily tops my personal “life-changing” list.
What about you — how many have you checked off?