Drew Barontini

A traffic light for your energy? Yes. Use the simple green-yellow-red system to check in weekly.

Catch misalignment early and shift back to the roles that energize you most.

Define your Alignment Pillars: drewbarontini.com/newsletter/4...

What if you had a personal compass for meaningful work?

Build your 3 Alignment Pillars—your unique formula for energy, clarity, and purpose—and uncover who you are when each one is activated.

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Feeling productive but strangely disconnected? You might be misaligned.

Learn to spot the subtle signs—disengagement, mental drift, sluggishness—and trace them back to what really matters.

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Artifacts = your personal Wikipedia.

Start documenting today to create a legacy of insight and impact.

I call it Artifact Mining, and here’s how I do it: drewbarontini.com/newsletter/3...

Discover how to create clarity with language, design your roles, and build sustainable energy in your work.

Issue #40 drops tomorrow: Alignment Pillars.

If something feels off, this framework might be the missing piece.

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Use CleanShot + Hazel + Notion + Dropbox to create your artifact workflow.

- CleanShot to capture screenshots of work.
- Hazel to automatically organize them.
- Notion and Dropbox for storage.

It’s digital archaeology for your career.

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The Project Compass gives you a way to diagnose and guide projects at any stage: status, strategy, storage. Revisit it anytime to realign.

Learn all about it in Issue #39: drewbarontini.com/newsletter/3...

Capture decisions as they happen, log the why, and share it widely.

Without memory, your project repeats mistakes.

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Strategy isn’t a five-year plan—it’s the next best step. Guide your team forward with an experimental mindset and clear direction built on real-time context.

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Lost in your project? Start with status. Know where you are, not just what’s happening.

Weekly updates + a visual status board can reset orientation and revive progress.

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Structure your work like this:

→ Goal (framed as a question)
→ Hypothesis (project)
→ Outcomes (questions)
→ Targets (weekly tests)
→ Tasks (daily work)

It’s focused, flexible, and built for learning.

Learn the 3 critical checks to keep any project aligned and on track—no matter how complex.

Issue #39 drops tomorrow. Don’t miss it! drewbarontini.com/newsletter

The magic isn’t in the tool—it’s in the process.

Screenshot, organize, store.

Artifact Mining is a ritual for deeper work.

Missed Issue #38? It’s all about the shift from delivering work to discovering value.

A Product Mindset isn’t about more features—it’s about more curiosity.

It starts with empathy, grows with intuition, and evolves through iteration.

The best product teams treat every release as an experiment. They build, test, learn, and iterate with speed and intention.

That’s The Lab in action: tight feedback loops, small bets, and a relentless focus on progress over perfection.

Plans change. Roadmaps shift. The real skill? Knowing where to go when the path disappears.

That’s The Compass—your intuition, critical thinking, and product sense guiding decisions in the face of uncertainty.

In a world of rapid change, taste and judgment aren’t nice-to-haves. They’re essential.

Great products start with empathy.

Build The Heart—truly understand your users beyond the data.

Goals need constraints—but not rigidity.

The difference? Constraints spark creativity.

Rigidity kills it.

Start with a strong question and test your way to answers.

Discover how curiosity powers better products—and why the right mindset changes everything.

Issue #37 drops tomorrow: Product Mindset.

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One of my favorite systems is what I call Artifact Mining, turning moments into vibrant stories.

Case studies aren’t born—they’re built.

But you have to intentionally capture all the little moments along the way.

This week’s newsletter looked at how great team culture isn’t mandated—it’s cultivated.

From signals to shared stories, learn how to shape a space where the best behaviors emerge naturally.

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Culture comes alive in key moments.

That one time someone updated the issue without being asked? It matters.

Highlight those moments. They’re the proof points your team remembers.

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Mental models shape how your team sees the work.

When those models are shared—through visuals, language, and metaphors—they become a map the whole team can follow.

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What if your next team breakthrough came from a meme?

When ideas are simple, visual, and repeatable, they spread.

It’s not about control—it’s about cultural transmission that sticks.

👉 Learn how to create an Emergent Environment: drewbarontini.com/newsletter

Pixar builds 4,000+ storyboards for each film.

They revise, test, and evolve.

It’s not magic. It’s iteration.

Structure without rigidity.

How do you create a team environment where healthy behaviors naturally emerge?

Tomorrow’s issue explores the surprising ways culture forms without forcing it.

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Feel like you’re spinning your wheels every day, tackling the wrong priorities?

Try starting fresh each day.

Define your outcomes, the tasks that will help you meet those priorities, and then log how your energy fluctuates.

Where your energy goes, your outcomes follow.

Missed Issue #36? It’s a deep dive into why endless iteration beats elusive perfection—and how to turn small steps into serious breakthroughs.

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Make smaller, more focused changes. When each iteration is tight and intentional, you gain clarity, reduce risk, and build lasting momentum.

Prioritize with precision. Don’t spread your team thin chasing every idea. Focus on one high-impact area, perfect it, and let that momentum drive the rest forward.

Ruthless prioritization is the key to long-term wins.