Reading & Thoughts from April
Issue #31 // *|DATE:F j, Y|*
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." ―Henry David Thoreau
#READING
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here (13 min read)
//stewartbutterfield
Great read from the Stewart Butterfield (co-founder of Slack)
Sell the innovation, not the product--in other words, sell the future state of the customer (what they want to become)
Example: Mario (you) + Product (mushroom) = Big Mario (future you)
#PODCASTS
Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
//thetimferrissshow
Listen to this podcast
One of the best podcasts I have ever listened to
Financial independence is a requirement for individual and ideological independence
In most of our traditional media ecosystem, the product is terrible, but it has great distribution
“If code scripts machines, media scripts human beings”
Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More
//thetimferrissshow
Listen to this podcast
Make the mind your servant
“Be stoic, be hopeful, but work your ass off”
Cold showers & meditation
#WORKING
If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work
//hbr
How People Get Rich Now
//paulgraham
Shift from inheritance --> tech
The majority of Forbes 100 are tech founders
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
//nature
Addition is favored in almost every situation, while subtraction is more powerful in most
While it requires less creativity to remove, I believe that it requires more mental effort to determine what is important (i.e. in writing)
Another example is product deprecation: it is often more difficult to discontinue a product versus adding a new product
What can you subtract from your life?
The top 0.1% of ideas I’ve stumbled upon on the internet.
//georgemack
The Barbell Strategy (90/10 Investing Strategies)
//jamesbaird
The easiest way to make $9,000 every month.
//samthompson
#FUN
The Crypto Social Network is Here. Meet BitClout.
//jakeudell
Putting money into a person-coin appears much more tangible than putting money into something that I can barely understand
I put $500 into BitClout--we'll see how this goes
“It’s like a rocket headed to the moon… That could explode at any minute.”~Ryan Hoover
Twitter App Scraper
//iwishtherewas
This site is awesome! It scrapes Twitter posts where people are looking for an app that may (or may not) exist