Fundamentals

Welcome @person

We're really glad you're here. Whether you're building a business, freelancing, creating, or just tired of your digital life working against you, you're exactly who we built this for.

No technical background needed, just an openness to rethinking how you work. Because we believe your attention is the most valuable thing you have, and this whole course is about designing your life so it flows toward what matters most.

— Good luck, from the Digital Feng Shui team.

Roadmap

This course builds step by step. It opens with the mindset, then gets practical with the big cleanup, and goes a little deeper with each module after.

So just watch in order and start at the beginning, every module is built on the one before it. By the end, your whole environment is working to keep you in flow.

The Shift

You never designed your digital environment. You inherited it. This is where that changes.

Key takeaway: The whole course comes down to one shift. From Default to Flow Architect. From inherited settings to a space you actually designed.

The Art Of Digtial Feng Shui

Your attention moves like water. The shape of your digital space decides where it goes. Digital Feng Shui is learning to shape it on purpose.

‍Key takeaway: Your attention is already flowing somewhere. The only question is whether you chose where.

Flow Physics

Most people lose hours and quietly blame themselves for it. But focus rarely leaves in one dramatic moment. It drifts, pulled away by hundreds of tiny frictions you never chose to live with.

‍Key takeaway: You don't need more discipline. You need less friction.

Masters of Flow

Rubin, Angelou, Tarantino. None of them run on superhuman willpower. They each designed an environment that gets out of the way so the work can happen.

‍Key takeaway: None of this requires talent you don't have. It requires choices you haven't made yet.

It starts below, with the Attention Audit.

Surface Cleanse

You can't build a better system on top of chaos. So before anything else, we strip it back to a clean surface. Desktop, files, notifications, dock.

‍Key takeaway: If it's not helping you, it doesn't belong.

Don't just watch this one. Pause at each step and do it with me.

Distaction Purge

A clean desktop won't save you if the inbox and feeds you open all day are still a mess inside. So we go one layer deeper, into the inputs you never consciously chose. Email, social, everything that's been flooding in on autopilot.

‍Key takeaway: You are what you let in. So feed your attention well.

Don't save this for later. Pause now and pruge your inbox and feeds.

Mobile Cleanse

Your phone is the most intimate piece of tech you own. Always in reach, always one tap from pulling you somewhere you never meant to go. This is the same cleanse you did on your desktop, now on the device that never leaves your side.

‍Key takeaway: Make impulsive actions hard. Make intentional ones easy.

Phone in hand for this one. Pause at each step and do it with me.

ScreenZen Setup

Some apps are engineered to be addictive, and willpower doesn't win that fight. So don't rely on it. This is ScreenZen, the one blocker I'd put on every phone.

Key takeaway: Decide now, while you're sharp. So the tired, autopilot version of you doesn't have to.
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Recommended setup: Only allow your most distracting apps between 17:00 and 22:00. That keeps them out of your work hours, and out of your bed.

Extra Measures

This one's optional. It's a menu of extra ways to add friction to your phone, from blocking a single feature to going full dumbphone. The point isn't to go as extreme as possible, it's to find the level that fits your life.

From Browsing to Operating

The browser went from a place you visit to the place you work. The tools you used to install are all just tabs now. But it's still built like it's 2015, made for simple browsing instead of everything we actually run through it.

‍Key takeaway: You don't browse anymore. You operate. It's time your browser caught up.

Arc Browser Setup

This is an opportunity for a clean slate. Before you copy over your old setup or install anything, answer one question: what is this computer actually for? Your answer is the blueprint for everything else.

‍Key takeaway: Design for what you're here to do. Not what you drift toward.

This one's a build-along. Pause at each step and set it up with me.

Your New Workspace Coda

Your browser is set up. Now for where your actual work lives: your workspace. Mine is Coda, one connected place for everything instead of work scattered across 20+ tabs.

Key takeaway: A Flow Architect chooses tools that do less, better. The ones that get out of the way so the work can take over.

Browser Essentials

Your browser setup is almost done. The last layer is a handful of extensions that make the whole thing quieter, faster, and more focused.

Key takeaway: The best extensions don't add features. They subtract the noise you never asked for.

Install the ones that fit how you work. They're all linked in the resources below.

Optional uBlock Origin Settings:

Cookie notices → EasyList/uBO
Annoyances → uBlok filters
Social widgets → EasyList

Browser Alternatives

Arc is the most refined browser today — but it's no longer the one evolving. So where is all of this heading?

This lesson breaks down the browsers worth watching: Dia, the AI-first successor to Arc; Zen, the privacy-focused open-source alternative in active development; and Brave, the most private option of all.

Distraction Blockers

The setup is the easy part. The mindset is what makes it stick. This isn't a one-time fix, it's a process, and blocking one thing usually just reveals the next. So go slow, and stay clear on what you're actually building toward.

‍Key takeaway: The point isn't to block things. It's what blocking opens up.

ScreenZen Setup ^(Desktop)

Install ScreenZen and set up your first block alongside me.
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Recommended setup:
1) Block your worst sites on a strict schedule.
2) Set ScreenZen to launch at login.
3) Lock the settings behind a timer.

ColdTurkey Setup

When ScreenZen isn't enough,
ColdTurkey is the iron wall.

Install ColdTurkey and set up your first block alongside me.

‍Recommended setup:
1) Block your distractions by keyword or URL.
2) Before you lock anything, check the strictness settings. You can't change them once a lock is active.
3) While you're still testing, use a hard backdoor, not a permanent lock.

Quality of Life

These are the small upgrades, the tools that don't change what you do, just how good it feels to do it. Cleaner windows, warmer light at night, a tidier menu bar, typing by talking. Grab the ones that fit. The links are all in the resources below.

Secure Back-up

This one's optional, and you'll need an external drive if you don't have one. Recommendations are below.

A backup won't save your laptop. But it saves everything you built on it. And if you have things you can't aford to lose this can give serious peace of mind.

Hardware Tips

This one's optional, just a walk through my own setup. I'm a nerd about this stuff, the type who makes obsessive comparison spreadsheets before buying anything, so if you're ever upgrading your keyboard, mouse, monitor, or webcam, my picks might save you the rabbit hole.

Shortcut Intro

Right now you're probably reaching for the mouse when a hotkey would be instant. On its own it's nothing. But multiplied hundreds of times a day, for years, you end up on a completely different level.

‍Key takeaway: It won't come easy, especially the first few weeks. But stick with it, and these stop being shortcuts you have to remember and become something your hands just do. That's muscle memory, no thinking, pure flow, and the payoff compounds every day for years.

Raycast Intro

Raycast replaces Spotlight as a command center for everything on your machine. Almost anything you reach for can live behind a single hotkey, one keypress and you're there. And that's barely the start of what it does.

‍Key takeaway: Stop searching for things. Start jumping straight to them.

Raycast Setup

Install Raycast from the link below. You'll find my recommended hotkeys, snippets, and extensions in the work file.

Move along with me, and pause whenever you need to.

Shortcut Masterclass

Setting up hotkeys is easy. Actually using them is where people quit, because in the moment, the mouse always feels faster. Getting through that gap is the whole game.

‍Key takeaway: A hotkey isn't an addition, it's a replacement. Kill the mouse path for that action, or it'll keep winning.

Open the cheat sheet in the work file, mark your three or four most important hotkeys, and focus on just those first.

The Invisible Clutter

The mess was never only on your screen. Some of it has always lived in your head, quietly. Appointments, ideas, tasks, loose thoughts circling back. It's like having 50+ tabs open in your brain. So even with your whole setup dialed in, you start the day from noise instead of clarity.

This module is about the fix: a Clarity System. A way to offload everything from your head into something you trust, so your mind is free to think instead of store. When it's in place, you stop searching, forgetting, and reconstructing. You just know what's next.

Clarity Fundamentals

Clarity isn't something you force. But you can build systems that make it far more likely, a few simple principles you can apply to whatever you create.

Think of them less as rules to follow, and more as a lens: a way of seeing what makes any system work, and what quietly makes it fail.

Key takeaway: Clarity isn't found. It's built. One intentional thought at a time.

Planning

A look under the hood at a real planning system in action, the kind that keeps you clear on what matters from the big picture down to today.

Below, you'll find the Daily Log template and a Yearly Reflection template, free to copy and make your own.

Vision

A yearly reflection is where you step back from the day-to-day and go deeper, into the bigger questions. Purpose, direction, and what actually matters to you. It's optional, and it's timing-sensitive, so save it for the start of a new year if that suits you better.

Below, you'll find the Yearly Reflection template, free to copy and make your own.

Personal OS

Your Personal OS is where everything worth keeping finds a home, so nothing important gets lost, and your best thinking is always within reach.

Below, you'll find the Personal OS template, free to copy and make your own.

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