Mind your step
Mind your step, for here you'll find a world designed to hack your mind.
What would you do if you woke up tomorrow with 50,000 subscribers?
That’s the intrusive thought that jump-scared me into a deep introspective dive last week and helped me find clarity about what I hope to accomplish with my Substack.
I felt like I was starting to find my rhythm. Posting weekly long-form articles and daily notes. Commenting on my favourite reads and connecting with new friends.
I knew that I enjoyed talking about the design of our digital, physical, and mental spaces. And I thought that throughline was enough to make my writing meaningful. But that question got me to realize that I didn’t really know what I wanted to say, stand for, and, more importantly, what I wanted to solve.
And when the day comes when I do actually attain the number of readers I’m working toward, what will I have to offer? What will they be looking for? And will it be aligned with my own vision and values?
Honestly, those are the kinds of weeks I live for. The ones that start with a quality question which turns out to be the key that unlocks the door to a whole new realm.
With that being said, Mind Your Step as we enter this new realm together.
Design a world where the superpowers you dreamt about actually exist.
Happy to meet you! Allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m Lamar, and I’m here to help you turn your surroundings into a competitive advantage.
Most of us spend our lives in spaces that were never designed for our success.
Our digital worlds masquerade as altruistic tools, but were actually designed to addict us and suppress our agency. And our external worlds influence every thought we have and every move we make, yet we haven’t been taught how to harness that power for ourselves.
I’m here to change all that.
Using my background in psychology, product design, and software development, I’ll show you how to turn your environments into cognitive tools that automate mental clarity and spark your creativity.
As a kid, I spent so much time dreaming up worlds where I had superpowers and now I want to explore how we can design real spaces that enhance our natural strengths.
Reject reality and substitute your own.
The superpowers you get as a subscriber
1) The power of technopathy
The ability to control your digital world so you never lose a thought again.
Every day, you rely on tools that weren’t built for you. Tools that were designed for the dumber, lazier, and more average version of you. Designed to make you escape reality rather than enhance it. It’s the reason why you feel so overwhelmed and addicted to your devices.
Trust me. I know. I’m the one who builds them.
But I can show you how to reclaim your digital environments so they start working for you specifically, giving you back the time and mental space to live in the real world.
2) The power of animation
The ability to reprogram any space to amplify who you want to become.
When you animate a space, you give the inanimate a pulse and a purpose.
Your desk stops being a piece of wood and becomes a companion for your creative potential. Your bed stops being a mere platform and becomes the Sandman who vividifies your dreams.
Every place can have a mind and motive of its own. Subconsciously steering how you think, feel, and function.
Together, we’ll re-engineer your environments to reinforce your goals.
3) The power of internal terraforming
The ability to architect the world inside your head into a rich creative playground.
As a child, you were immersed in novelty and it supercharged the imagination you thrived on. But as an adult, your world has become a loop of familiar spaces and repetitive routines.
So you travel. And you attend events. And you scroll blindly. Tirelessly mining the external world for an inspiration you’ve forgotten how to create for yourself.
In order to fully master your external and digital worlds, we’ll cultivate a mental ecosystem that amplifies your best ideas so you can stop being a passive observer and start being the architect who builds the worlds that inspire others.
Stick around to discover how you can use design and psychology to empower your external, digital, and internal worlds.