Today at a Glance:
Quote: Imagination > Knowledge
Reading: Live closer to your friends
Podcast: Working with Jeff Bezos
Tweet: The Algorithm
Idea: TalentLink: Fixing the Job Interviewing Process
#QUOTE
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein emphasizes the significance of imagination as a driving force for innovation and advancement. This quote encourages us to recognize that while knowledge is valuable, it is ultimately constrained by what we already understand. Imagination, on the other hand, has the power to break boundaries, spark creativity, and propel us into uncharted territories of discovery and progress.
#READING
//headlineshq
The article highlights the importance of deep and meaningful friendships for emotional well-being and discusses the decline of adult friendships in recent years due to hyperindividualism. It suggests that living near friends can significantly improve well-being and mentions initiatives like Live Near Friends that help people live close to their pals.
Takeaways
Deep friendships strongly correlate with health and happiness.
Modern life has led to a decline in adult friendships.
Living near a happy friend can increase your own happiness by 25%.
Initiatives like Live Near Friends aim to promote living near friends.
Apps and interventions are addressing the issue of loneliness.
//mattrickard
Today, we're guided by "wizards" or interactive guides in tech products. The future of design may be generated just for us rather than hard-coded, which may mean you get the exact experience for you rather than the majority of people.
This is an interesting concept and aligns with the meta trend of everything being more customized to the person rather than for the majority. This also is another interesting use case to leverage AI for more than just text.
#PODCASTS
//founders
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
//acquired
Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen
//lennyspodcast
My Processes for Creating the Life I Want
//buildwithrob
#TWEET
A city with walkable density of NY, beaches of LA and ambitious people of SF.
Top Answers:
Barcelona, Spain
Sydney, Australia
Tel Aviv, Israel
Question all requirements, identify the person behind them, and challenge even smart individuals' requirements to improve them.
Delete unnecessary parts or processes, with the goal of adding back at least 10% of them later.
Simplify and optimize processes after deletion, avoiding the mistake of optimizing what shouldn't exist.
Speed up processes but only after steps one to three have been completed.
Automate processes as the final step, ensuring all requirements are scrutinized and unnecessary elements removed.
Fitness advice in a single X. My favorites:
Swap crunches with hanging leg raises for strong abs.
Put your phone away for workouts.
Use "Fat Gripz" to improve grip strength.
Eating all your food before 7pm is an overlooked weight loss, health, and sleep hack.
Front squat >>> Back Squat
Shoplifting destroys jobs. Basically, $997M of Lowe's 2022 10-K was "shrinkage", and at least some nontrivial amount of that was due to shoplifting, which means $261M in shareholder dividends not paid out, stores not being build, and therefore less jobs being created. Of course shrinkage could also be damage.
Shrinkage = shoplifting, vendor fraud, damage, cashier error
DTC Companies are in a bit of a pickle. Next potential casualties:
Allbirds
Rent the Runway
Purple
https://x.com/interneth0f/status/1708343746901774360
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#IDEA
TalentLink: Fixing the Job Interviewing Process
TalentLink operates as a talent-to-company matching service, diverging from the traditional job board model. Instead of browsing through job listings, both companies and professionals create profiles, and TalentLink's algorithm does the matching based on skills, experiences, culture fit, and other relevant metrics.