Daniel Silva's #013
Sir David Brailsford and Marginal Gains.
Hello everyone,
Here we are at week #13 and I want to thank everyone that sent me feedback, tips, and ideas. I will continue to explore and promise you to bring out the very best content I explored in the previous week.
What do you know about marginal gains? How about cycling? This week I want to share a great podcast with Sir. David Brailsford about cycling, maximizing performance, and winning - (listen here).
“The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improve it by 1 percent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.” - Sir David Brailsford
David arrived at British Cycling, Britain was a relative backwater in the cycling world. Within a few years, he oversaw a team that won 8 out of 10 track medals at the Olympic games 2012 in his homeland, England.
The Best of Last Week
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The Knowledge Project - Walter Isaacson - (Listen here) - What’s a curious obsessed mind?
What do Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Jennifer Doudna all have in common? Celebrated journalist and author Walter Isaacson calls upon his years of research to explain how curiosity has always fueled creativity among history’s greatest innovators, and how each of those individuals shaped the world around them. In this episode, Issacson dives deep into the curious obsessions of Jobs, da Vinci’s ability to develop a brilliant mind, Ada Lovelace and how she developed the algorithm, and how Doudna’s work with gene editing could shape the future to come.
Tim Ferriss Show - Naval Ravikant (Listen here) - An all-around insanely great podcast.
Naval Ravikant (@naval) is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He is an angel investor and has invested in more than 100 companies, including many mega-successes such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, OpenDoor, Postmates, and Wish.
Thanks to Braulio Medina for the tip!
In Depth - Ravi Mehta (Listen here) - Great for PMs, Founders, and Curious minds.
Ravi Mehta, who is formerly the Chief Product Officer at Tinder, taught product strategy as an Executive in Residence at Reforge. He shares a great deal of knowledge and insight from his days at TripAdvisor and Facebook.
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Quartz - The decentralized web is not decentralized (login might be required)
Harvard Business Review - Finding the Right Balance - and Flexibility - in Your Leadership Style
McKinsey - Getting tangible about intangibles: The future of growth and productivity?
“…in a nutshell is that the nature of firms’ investment and the assets upon which they base their competitive advantage is just very different now to what they were before. In the old days, companies like steel companies were full of tangible assets. They were full of blast furnaces and vehicles for getting stuff from A to B, and that’s what they produced.
Nowadays, companies are full much more of intangible assets. They are built on their reputation. They’re built on lines of software code. They’re built on wonderful design. They’re built on innovative scripts and movies and things like that. It’s that move from the tangible economy to the intangible economy…” - Jonathan Haskel
Intangible Assets is the CORE of what I’m exploring with Rosie and if you want to track where I’m heading you can follow my Readocracy collection here.
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See you next week!
Dan