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I turned 41 yesterday - thanks! - and I want to share a 2 minutes video of Rickson Gracie talking about what he learned from his son's departure. [Super recommend it]
It’s in English with Portuguese subtitles.
Our content this week cover Web3.0, the science of flow state, DAO's, more from Adam Grant, and an amazing podcast with Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman!!
Let’s dive into it.
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Master of Scale - Marc Andreessen: The 6 Secrets of Great Timing
Great for Entrepreneurs and Investors.
The head of Greylock Ventures debating business with the head of A16Z. It’s high quality!
Reward: Get to understand how industry moguls analyze the timing of investment opportunities.
NFX - The irrational Truths Behind User Behavior
NFX General Partner Gigi talks with Dan Ariely -- the world’s top expert in behavioral economics and a renowned professor at Duke -- as he breaks down the most common types of irrational user behavior and shares frameworks for predicting how your users will actually behave.
NFX - April Underwood shares the Product Thinking that Built Slack and Twitter.
April Underwood was instrumental at both companies, first as Director of Product at Twitter and then as Chief Product Officer at Slack. She is a powerhouse product leader with an unusual depth of experience in growing both B2C and B2B products from 0 to 1 to ubiquity, and building world-class product teams along the way.
Reward: A simple to implement structure to hire PMs
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VentureBeat - AI is quietly eating up the world’s workforce with job automation
WallStreet Journal - The Best Fitness Apps for Working Out at Home
McKinsey - Next in loyalty: Eight levers to turn customers into fans
McKinsey - The Value of Getting Personalization Right - or wrong - is multiplying.
AI will create a whole new era of personalization - but the question remains - Are we ready? How about our privacy?
Wall Street Journal - McKinsey’s Top Exec Wants to Change How the Firm Operates
[MUST READ] - a Twitter thread on how two mediocre students did everything wrong and created a $67 BILLION company
Harvard Business Review - Linkedin Co-Founder Reid Hoffman on Innovating for an Uncertain Future
Harvard Business Review - In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage
CoinDesk - Will DAOs replace Crypto Venture Capital?
Great for investors! My take? It makes a lot of sense.
Linkedin - 2021: Digital Education is the biggest challenge of our century
New Yorker - It’s time to Embrace Slow Productivity
Are you familiar with State of Flow?
“You may have experienced a flow state at some point — that sense of fluidity between your body and mind, where you are totally absorbed by and deeply focused on something, beyond the point of distraction. Time feels like it has slowed down. Your senses are heightened. You are at one with the task at hand, as action and awareness sync to create an effortless momentum. Some people describe this feeling as being “in the zone.” - from Headspace
If you are not, I recommend exploring it and I will drop three tips:
TED TALK with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow." - Watch it here.
Science Alert - The science of “Flow States”, Explained by a Cognitive Science Researcher.
Before we go… Adam Grant! - Buy his book Think Again - it’s mind-blowing.
5 Things Wharton Psychologist Adam Grat Wants you to Rethink in 2022
Adam Grant’s 5" “Thinking Styles” Reveal the Key to Effective Business Leadership
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