To view this email as a webpage, click here Heyo! Steve here - just another quick reminder to add “steve@stevekamb.com” to your address books, that’s the new address this newsletter will come from over the coming weeks! Thanks in advance. Okay! On to today’s newsletter. Social media has taught us that we must have an opinion on everything. We’re constantly told that we should “fake it til we make it.” This combination ends up with a society full of people confidently expressing incorrect...
17 days ago • 3 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here Quick reminder: over the next few weeks, this newsletter will start to come from a different email address. Can you add steve@stevekamb.com to your address book? It’ll help signal to the email overlords that you still want to read my fun weird newsletter! Thanks! Okay onto today’s newsletter! Small milestones that signal longer term results Last week, I completed two little things that might seem insignificant on the surface: I filled up my journal,...
24 days ago • 4 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here Let me start with a quick announcement: Everybody should watch the movie Flow, a tiny independent film which won the Academy Award for best animated film on Sunday. Wait, that wasn’t the actual announcement. But seriously, watch that movie, and stay through the credits! The actual announcement, which is more of a “logistics” boring thing: Over the next month, this newsletter will come from a different email “send” address. Instead of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here Entrepreneur Peter Barton was on top of the world. Until he wasn’t. Barton lived a life everybody dreamed of, took pretty damn good care of himself, and was a great husband and dad to his family. And then on one fateful day, his world was shattered: A terminal cancer diagnosis. Work became less important, other experiences stopped holding meaning; he tried to pick up the pieces while mourning a future he wouldn’t get to live. He wouldn’t get to see...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here In 2007, Italian police arrested Salvatore Lo Piccolo. This dude was an actual boss from the real life Sicilian Mafia. As they explored his house, they stumbled across what they believed to be their official “10 commandments” of their crew. In other words, “If you want to be a good mobster, follow these 10 easy steps!” No-one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it. Never look at the wives of...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here I’ve been trying to do a few things differently in 2025. Specifically, moving towards moments or things that make me uncomfortable. (I don’t mean, “avoid thoughts where I’m in physical danger,” of course.) But rather, I’m going to run toward the things that my brain tells me, “This is uncomfortable, I don’t like this, avoid it at all costs.” The email I’m afraid to open. The conversation I’m afraid to have. The question I’m afraid to ask. The...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here In 1944, an absolutely fascinating study was conducted. Fritz Heider and Marianne Simme showed a group of people a short video that included two triangles, a circle, and a square. It’s only 90 seconds long, but I can already tell how you’ll probably respond. I don’t want to spoil the outcome, so please watch. It doesn’t even have audio, so you can watch anywhere, and think about how it makes you feel. We Love Stories Now that you’ve watched...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here If you’ve already missed one of your New Year’s Resolutions, welcome to the club! Late January is when most people have already bailed on their goals for the year. Yep, even though those goals were written with a special pen in a cool planner, and scheduled on calendars, and with the best of intentions. Luckily, this is amazing news and an unbelievable learning opportunity… If you have the courage to see it! Be good, not perfect. In East of Eden,...
2 months ago • 2 min read
To view this email as a webpage, click here Today I’m hitting you with two stories that will make you: First, chuckle. Then go, “oh wait a second.” And then finally go, “damnit Steve did you just teach me a life lesson?” Let’s dive in, shall we? The Christmas Ham A little girl watched her mother bake a ham for Christmas dinner. She noticed that her mom cut the ends off both sides before it went into the oven. This little girl was quite inquisitive, so she asked, “Mom, why do we cut the ends...
2 months ago • 3 min read