I’m Theo. At the moment, I’m transitioning out of full-time education at the University of Sheffield, looking to work full time on projects that I love.
Right back at the start of my degree, in 2023, I started sharing my growing ideas around productivity and knowledge management to a small online audience. This grew and grew, and I kept sharing. Before long, I’d built a business around this, called PARAZETTEL.
Now I’m looking to maintain this business, but I need new ways to learn new ideas around knowledge management. That’s why I’ve started to move out into the freelance content-writing field.
What I’m working on now…
This section, inspired by Derek Sivers, is a place for me to share what I’m doing at the moment. I’ve started doing this in a journal-style timeline, to make it easier to follow along with:
2025-06-16 - I sat my final university exam last Friday. As of right now, for the first time in my life, there’s nothing concrete on the horizon. It’s a little alarming, but I’m very excited for what’s to come!
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2025-05-28 - As I mentioned in the previous point, there have been changes happening around here. As of today I’ve pretty much finished changing things from a publication-centric website to a personal portfolio/brand website. Fundamentalised lives on as a Substack, which hopefully should help its growth through the community features.
My personal short essays remain here, and I’m going to finish up adding and removing relevant bits and pieces in the next couple of days or so, when I get fed up of revising for my exams.
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2025-05-05 - More recently, I’ve been updating the website to be more in-line with writing roles that I might potentially pick up after university. I’d like to be able to share my work with a wider audience and build more of a reputation and portfolio because the craft is something that I love doing every day.
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2025-04-20 - Updated the https://parazettel.com website to contain all the information for the new business offer of the PARAZETTEL Community, as well as the PARAZETTEL for Obsidian vault - https://parazettel.com/vault.
Also fixed up the backend of the business and finished the email sequence that you get when you signup at https://parazettel.com/signup.
Started to work more on the university work of finishing my research project and revising for exams because the final couple of months of my education is now in swing. I need to graduate with a bang so that I can keep moving with momentum into the new season of life. Hopefully after that, the hiatus will end and I’ll be back to posting the content around the topics that currently interest me every week.
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2025-03-27 - I’ve just added this new journal style section to the website, and as of what I’ve been doing this year (since the start of this year), it’s been very busy…
I built the PARAZETTEL Community most recently, launching at the start of March, but before that (back at the end of January), I built out this entire Fundamentalised website too.
Right now I’m just outlining these two projects to get you up to speed with this new style of tracking my current work efforts!
When this section gets too long to read comfortably, I’m going to backlog it in theostowell.me/journal. There’s nothing in there right now, rather this is a reminder to myself to get it done.
Thanks for being here!
– Theo
P.S. You can reach out to me via email at theo@theostowell.me. I’d be very happy to hear from you.