Hello everyone,
Let’s have a fu$∞ing awesome 2022. The very first newsletter of 2022 is full of great content - we have Ray Dalio 2x (scroll down), predictions for the new year from top experts (including Scott Belsky), and more.
Above all, I wish you all a Dave Grohl year (this is the best video of 2021 :-))
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
Before we dive into the great content I consumed last week I will share a great video of Atomic Habits, a contemporary masterpiece, and game-changing book.
“All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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Scott Belsky (the amazing founder of Behance) - 10 Forecasts for the near future of Tech & Life as We Know it (16 minutes read)
Newsweek - How to Keep Learning All Your Life (15 minutes read)
Medium - Why The Rise of No-Code Matters to Entrepreneurs (5 minutes read)
Coinbase - 10 Predictions for Web2 and The Cryptoeconomy for 2022 (5 minutes read)
“We’ll see DAOs become more mature and mainstream. More people will join DAOs, prompting a change in the definition of employment — never receiving a formal offer letter, accepting tokens instead of or along with fixed salaries, and working in multiple DAO projects at the same time.”
Cointelegraph - DAOs are the foundation of Web3, the creator economy, and the future of work. (5 minutes read)
Decrypt - The Biggest Crypto Story of 2021: NFT Boom (6 minutes read)
Blockworks - Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z created Btrust to invest 500 bitcoins in Africa (3 minutes read)
First Round Review - Drive Growth by Picking the Right Lane — A Customer Acquisition Playbook for Consumer Startups
Reforge - The Racecar Growth Framework (15 minutes read)
Audio & Video
A16Z - All About NFTs
A16Z - Kickstarting Network Effects *listen from minute 09:20 to 11:10 -
“When I coach founders now it is about helping them understand their job is to get to a Minimum Viable Community…..Minimum Viable Community will be more important than Minimum Viable Product”
A16Z - Why “FoundersInsight” is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Vision can be dangerous.
Special Ray Dalio
We Study Billionaires - The Changing World Order with Ray Dalio
Lex Fridman - Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
I plan to launch Rosie in Q1 2022 with a super private beta.
You can follow our exploration here.
Much love,
Daniel Silva