I accidentaly cracked productivity
From chill weekend to core breakthroughs. (2025. 07. 04. - 2025. 07. 06.)
After joining a marketing agency, I thought the weekend would be chill.
And wow, how wrong I was!
Hey!
I’m Zoli, a 16 y/o solopreneur working on a tech business. I document everything honestly: the wins, the fails, the bad decisions, and the big ideas.
This is Part 2 of the wildest week of this journey so far.
If you missed Part 1, you can read it here.
What have I done so far?
Over the past three days, I finally made progress. Despite the problems I experienced with market research the first week, I was able to gather useful insights about some potential apps I’ll create in my first app stack.
Read chapter 17 of Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)
Days 6-7 of learning Figma (you can check my progress here)
I wrote and published my first-ever Substack post
A major market research breakthrough
I couldn’t finish Psychology of Money as I planned. It was a true war to make myself sit down and read, but hey, I read at least one chapter.
My late-night idea that changed everything
Saturday night, about 10 PM.
I wasn’t even supposed to do anything. I was done with all my work.
After this, for no reason, I asked ChatGPT:
What are the core pillars of productivity?
The answers were… not the best. There were 1-2 good ideas, but far from what I expected, like what you’d find on an AI-automated Instagram page.
But I didn’t close the tab. I kept thinking.
What are the actual pillars of productivity?
If you truly break it down, what holds it up?
This thought pulled me in, and I was sitting in front of my laptop, thinking about it.
And suddenly, it all clicked. I came up with:
The 4 core pillars of productivity
The material these pillars are made of
And the tool that shapes them into actual strong columns
And I can’t describe to you how amazed I was. (I’m dead serious, it left my mouth open.) It wasn’t just a fun analogy.
I felt like I reverse-engineered the core mechanics of productivity itself.
And then something huge hit me:
What if my first app stack was built around this concept?
I wasn’t thinking about another to-do list or a random habit tracker.
My vision was a set of tools, each reinforcing one of those 4 pillars, actually helping people reach their true potential in terms of productivity.
It’s still early, but now I have a deep, true foundation to build on and a clear angle for how to market these apps later.
What’s next?
I have quite a few plans here, and since I’ll be home all week, mostly alone, I think I’ll be able to make similar progress to this week’s, maybe without the really exciting stuff.
Here’s what I planned:
Finally finishing Psychology of Money
Choose my development stack that I’ll stick to
Continue learning Figma (days 8-14)
Finish the market research
Design my future learning paths (for marketing, sales, programming, etc.)
Reflect on the first 3 weeks, and adjust my plans
Might be a lot, but I’ll make visible progress. That’s what matters.
This week’s short takeaway
I didn’t want to tell everything about the analogy I found, and what exactly I realized about productivity. But I want to reveal the first element of this approach, the material the 4 pillars are made of. And this material is your energy.
Think about it:
Having the best tools for productivity won’t matter if your energy is low. Just like building pillars with weak materials, no matter how tall or large, it will eventually collapse.
This is why it’s important to focus on your energy, because this is the foundation of work. No energy, no results. Simple as that. Keep this in mind.
See you in week 3
This week started with an unexpected partnership: I joined NexFlow Media.
And even the weekends held a big surprise: I cracked productivity itself.
Now it’s time to work and build.
Next week, I’ll do a lot of things, and hopefully, I’ll show visible progress with my plans.
If you’re curious to see what comes out of this framework, which I found, and how I’ll turn it into real products, stay tuned.