🖊️ Articles of Interest

• The state of newsletters Every year there has been some conversation about the newsletter bubble popping but they've continued to be proven false. Instead, new players have emerged, and new models for growth and monetization as well.

• The unicorns that could be due a fundraise in 2024, Sifted earmarks the billion dollar companies that haven’t raised since 2021 and could be on the hunt for VC cash

• Workout guide by the legend Arnold, yes that Arnold

🛠️ Chart/Infographics of the issue

• How Notion Grows

  

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• That’s a long but good one

🎧 Podcast Pick

• What Does Success Look Like? What matters more: meeting our own ambitions, or winning fame and glory? What’s it like to earn a gold medal at the Olympics? And why didn’t Mike’s grandfather get a watch?

📽️ Video Spotlight

• Apple Reminders: Power User Tips & Hidden Features

• Dara Khosrowshahi, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jason Calacanis on Uber's growth and future
  

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And very fair question here

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• 21 people in European tech who mattered in 2023

• THE BEST INVENTIONS OF 2023

🛠️ Chart of the issue

• Tech layoff in 2022-2023

  

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• Jeff Bezos on Managing Stress: “People get stress wrong all the time in my opinion. Stress doesn’t come from hard work, for example, you know you can be working incredibly hard and loving it.”

🎧 Podcast Pick

• The legendary Charlie Munger in the only dedicated long-form podcast interview he has done in his 99 years on Earth.

• Dominik Richter is the Founder & CEO of HelloFresh, one of the largest direct-to-consumer businesses of the last decade and the #1 recipe box delivery service.

• Based in Berlin, born in India, and educated at Harvard – Naren Shaam is a unicorn founder once rejected as a call center agent, The CEO of global tech & travel company Omio has two superpowers: patience, and not recognizing a 'no' for a 'no'.

📽️ Video Spotlight

• Brian Chesky, Co-Founder/CEO of Airbnb: The best piece of advice and Designing a 10-star Experience

• In a rare podcast appearance, Apple CEO Tim Cook joins Dua Lipa to dive into the profound impact of artificial intelligence, the ever-evolving tech landscape and their response to climate change. Join Dua as she discovers Tim’s personal journey, from his life growing up to his philanthropic endeavours, as well as his perspective on tackling global challenges.

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And some motivations here 🥰

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🖊️ Articles of Interest

• Why roles are not rules? by Kris Rasmussen Chief Technology Officer, Figma

• My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years.

• My Jeff Bezos Story: How to Survive a Bad Failure, Ethan Evans shares his biggest Amazon Appstore launch failure in 2011

🛠️ Chart of the issue

• Apple Q3 FY23 Income Statement:

  

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• The original Michelin Man from 1894, and Where Michelin Star ⭐️ came from, read more here

🎧 Podcast Pick

• This episode delves into the intricate business moves and consequences surrounding Taylor Swift's masters and re-releases. after her first $1B+ tour ever

📽️ Video Spotlight

• During this keynote, Marty Cagan will be calling out some of the most important and deeply rooted misconceptions about how great products are created.

• Emily Chang visits Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky while he plays host in his San Francisco home. Chesky shares how he went from gluing cereal boxes to pay off his startup’s debt to running a multibillion-dollar business. Along the way, he says Airbnb’s darkest moment may be what saved the company–and him.

🚀 Startup/Product of the Issue:

• PingNow The online offline dating app 🙄

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• Unlocking the Founder Agreement at Hampton: Take a peek at what makes a founder's agreement work. Learn what long-term dedication and focus could mean for a startup with big potential.

• Brainstorm Questions, Not Ideas: Shift the way you brainstorm. Asking the right questions can lead to even better ideas.

• Cap Table Blunders and How to Dodge Them: A guide to the common pitfalls startups face with cap tables and how to sidestep them or correct course.

🛠️ Tool

• Coolors Palette Visualizer: Experiment with your design color scheme in real-time. Perfect for those looking to revamp their brand or website.

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• Is Ignorance a bliss? A good question here about getting a full body scan (If you can afford it)

🎧 Podcast Pick

• Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success [The Knowledge Project Ep. #174] “The Man Who Knows What the World’s Richest People Want (and How To Get It)”

📽️ Video Spotlight

🚀 Startup of the Issue:

• StrollMe The flexible subscription for prams & children's bikes

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• How We Work at Warp Dive into the operational insights of Warp and discover their unique approach to teamwork and productivity. A candid peek into the gears that drive a forward-thinking tech company.

• Be Sincere, Not Serious An exploration of the distinction between sincerity and seriousness. Unpack the value of genuine engagement and how it can redefine our perceptions and actions in both personal and professional spaces.

• What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry
  A compelling analysis of how giants like Apple and Nokia are steering the electric vehicle domain. Discover how their strategies could potentially reshape the future of transportation and challenge the dominance of traditional auto behemoths like Tesla.

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• Codie Sanchez’s great tweet about Doximity.com – is often dubbed as the 'LinkedIn for doctors'. Delve into her insights on how this niche platform is turning out to be astoundingly profitable.

🎧 Podcast Pick

• What I learned from reading How To Do Great Work by Paul Graham.

📽️ Video Spotlight

🚀 Startup of the Issue:

• The Oater Cologne-base food tech offering “Oat drink-as-a-Service”

🗣️ Community Corner:

• Book recommendation from Darwish here, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

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🖊️ Articles of Interest

• The Surprising Power of Questions - A thought-provoking Harvard Business Review piece that underscores the potency of asking the right questions in catalyzing innovation, fostering learning, and bolstering interpersonal bonding.

• The Art of Networking: Discover How to Create a Powerful Circle of Influence - This insightful piece from HelloFresh guides you on how to cultivate and leverage a strong network effectively.

🛠️ Tools to Try

• Hoodmaps - A crowd-sourced city map that paints a vivid picture of what to expect in various city neighborhoods.
  funny screenshot from Berlin’s map

  

• The Daily Upside - A daily newsletter offering fresh, bite-sized insights on business news. Stay updated without getting overwhelmed!

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• Eliz Kılıç's thread on how she contributed to redesigning Google Maps into one of the most cherished apps globally. A captivating glimpse into the design process!

• Emil Michael's thread on his experience at Uber in 2017. An insider's perspective on Uber's tumultuous times.

🎧 Podcast Pick

• The Complete History & Strategy of Nike - Tune in to discover the inspiring journey and strategy that shaped Nike into the global athletic powerhouse it is today.

📽️ Video Spotlight

UChicago Social Sciences university professor talking about the Craft of Writing Effectively

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🖊️ Articles of Interest

• How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham outlines his insights on generating great work. A must-read for all innovators.

• How Twitter Blew Up a Timeline - An intriguing read delving into Twitter's radical redesign. Learn how this social media giant stirred things up. (with threads launched, I think we should read this)

🛠️ Tools to Try

• Exponent - Preparing for interviews? A one-stop platform to help you ace your tech interviews. Reach new career heights with Exponent.

• Movie Spoilers - Get the plot, characters, and even the endings of your favorite films. Perfect for cinema buffs or those wanting to fast-forward to the spoilers.

🐥 Tweet

• I really like This reply from Nikita Beir about how to grow apps.

• G(Old), Best of Duolingo experiment that they ran in 2022 and what’s their take on it here

🎧 Podcast Pick

• Is being average really that bad? Dive into this thought-provoking podcast discovered by Ahmed Essam.

• Why do people fall for scams? This episode explores the psychological tricks that make us vulnerable.

📽️ Video Spotlight

• “Porsche is both quality AND quantity, owning the most prestigious brand in its market, while at the same time churning out almost half a million mass-market soccer mom/dad SUVs per year. And like any good luxury brand, it’s packed with enough juicy family drama and creeping takeovers to fill a Netflix series.”

• If you are still curious here’s an amazing article summarizing it.

🗣️ Community Corner

• One more article from Paul Graham re-Discovered recently by Hanan Abdel Meguid

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🖊️ Articles of Interest

• How AI will save the World Are you curious about the future of AI and how it can revolutionize our world? Marc Andreessen illuminates potential pathways in this thought-provoking exploration of the role AI could play in global problem-solving.

• The creative process is fabulously unpredictable: A great idea cannot be predicted. Gain a peek into the mind of Apple's former design head, Jony Ive. This deep dive talks about what it takes for the creative process to thrive at any company

🛠️ Tools to Try

• Klap Get ready-to-publish TikToks, Reels, and Shorts from YouTube videos in a click.

• Nioomi Salary Calculator Are you curious about where your salary stands compared to others? Nioomi provides an insightful salary calculator that can better understand your income in the broader economic context, and Germany is available now.

🐥 Tweet

• Sequoia Capital invested $5 million in YouTube. Their stake was worth $214 million when Google acquired YouTube 1 year later. This guy analyzing their internal investment memo about the deal from 2005

🎧 Podcast Pick

• Amazing interview with Uber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi.

  When Dara took over the company, it was bleeding huge sums of cash, losing shares to competitors, and embroiled in one of the biggest corporate controversies in recent memory. Fast forward to today, and it’s turned cashflow positive while also having tripled revenue to over $30B (on $120B in GMV).

📽️ Video Spotlight

• How can you evaluate a business briefly to understand its performance through financial statements?

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3. How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code: When hiring developers, there are many things we are looking for, but over the years I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for.

4. Job postings can reveal signs of trouble ahead with a potential employer or role. Experts break down the red flags that candidates should look for in job ads.

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1. “Biologist and genetics expert Dr. David Sinclair is out to prove he can live past 100 years old, and he thinks you can too. On this episode Sinclair goes in-depth on the process of aging and the techniques you can incorporate into your life that help you live a longer, healthier life, including optimizing your diet, the benefits of exercise, the role of a positive attitude, the importance of sleep, the three supplements he takes every day, why it’s never too late to slow the process of aging, and so much more.”

2. “ Did you know that 74% of Americans say they are more likely to trust someone if they have an established personal brand? If you want to build a personal brand that will influence more people, this episode is for you. So strap in for a step-by-step personal branding crash course from Rory Vaden. “

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1. I don’t have a favorite video for today but if you reply with yours i’ll appreciate it.

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• The Cold Start Problem: Andrew Chen A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users.

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1. Which numbers should you use? How high should it be? Should it be rounded? This guide has 42 tricks to help you choose the best price 🏷.

2. Laws of the Internet “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”, “Nothing is as easy as it looks”, and More.

3. Top 10 ways to make better decisions

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• All you need to raise a round: a very fundraising kit
  will help you answer some important questions, like

  How to find investors? How to craft your pitch deck? How to cold email investors? How to run investor meetings? and How to run a tight process?

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1. Leading neuroscientist and Stanford University School of Medicine professor Dr. Andrew Huberman goes in-depth on how small behaviors can make a huge impact on your health.

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1. 5 FANTASTIC Google Maps Features You Want To Know About

2. YC Partner Jared Friedman shares advice on how to get startup ideas.

3. كورس سريع في الويب ٣، العملات الرقمية، والإن إف تي - مع منير ربيع
   

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• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

  In Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch, tackle the thorny problem of how to overcome our natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions, about our work, lives, companies and careers.
  When it comes to decision-making, our brains are flawed instruments.
  

Check it out! →Goodreads page 4/5

And!

I just discovered this amazing Instagram account and it’s described in the bio it’s “A little tour of different geographies of the world.”

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1. “Getting to a trillion $ in revenue will require stealing markets from incumbents.” Scott Galloway @profgalloway talks about big companies in his new article Apple: Thief

2. Google Search Is Dying: There is a good discussion on this article, Paul Graham thinks this image means Reddit as a social media site “still hasn’t peaked”. What it actually means is that the number of people using Reddit as a search engine is growing.
   

   

🛠 Tool

• All you need to raise a round: a very fundraising kit
  will help you answer some important questions, like

  How to find investors? How to craft your pitch deck? How to cold email investors? How to run investor meetings? and How to run a tight process?

🐥 Tweet

This Amazing thread of @mouneer sharing his beautiful shots from the red sea in Egypt 🇪🇬

🎙Podcast

1. The President of Shopify.com @harleyf on “Where It Happens” show

they covered
- How Shopify changed e-comm forever
- New e-comm business ideas
- Elements of entrepreneurial DNA
- 5 year predictions - Morris Chang, TSMC, & Shopify

2. Go to Market Strategies
   ”In this episode, guest Karthik Suresh, CTO, and co-founder of Ignition shares his take on PMs, PMMs, and go-to-market strategies. In addition, find out why he believes user research is probably one of the most important parts of product management or product development in general.”

🎬Video

1. Stock Options explained: basics for startup employees and founders by Slidebean

📖 Book

• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

  “The basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very different from how most companies create products. The goal of the book is to share the techniques of the best companies. This book is aimed primarily at Product Managers working on technology-powered products. That includes the hundreds of "tech companies" like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter”
  

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Twitter Bots 🤖 are labeled now

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1. “a great ice-breaker question can shift an interaction from surface-level niceties to connection-building exploration.”

   30 Favorite Ice-Breaker Questions by Dr. Emily Anhalt 

2. Do these 3 brain exercises to 'stay mentally sharp and solve problems faster,' says Stanford creativity expert

🛠 Tool

Are you searching for a new job? making a lot of interviews? this free tool will help you in the process of tracking your interviews, taking notes and reminders.

🎙Podcast

“Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner at the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and has invested in companies such as Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Skype, among others. He co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, and has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time.”

🎬Video

• The Book That Changed My Financial Life

• The drug billionaires take to try to live longer

📖 Book

Ambition is neither good nor bad. It can help you achieve your dreams or it can lead you to dead ends,bereft of fulfilment . so to get truly good reutrns on your ambition, consider it in terms of growth and well-being, not just achievements.

I just discovered this nice book RETURN ON AMBITION by Nicolai Chen Nielsen and Nicolai Tillisch

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Happy birthday, Google Maps 🎉

Google Maps launched on Feb 8, 2005. Fifteen years later, Maps is used by more than 1 billion people around the world. And in addition to helping you get from point A to point B, it also helps you discover and explore your world. Here's how we're marking the 15th birthday of Google Maps. 

How did we do?

Could you please answer the one-question Survey to help us brush up on our content?

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How Google sets goals: OKRs / Startup Lab Workshop

Google Ventures Startup Lab | GV partner Rick Klau covers the value of setting objectives and key results (OKRs) and how this has been done at Google since 1…

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Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions

You don’t need to pretend to have all the answers.

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Books

Amp It Up

Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

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Inside the Most Expensive Home in America: $295,000,000 | Secret Lives of the Super Rich

Tour the largest most expensive home in America. This 105,000 square foot mega mansion just listed for $295,000,000. The massive single-family residence at…

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Tools/Products

Pika – Create beautiful screenshots quickly

A free, open-source app to quickly generate beauiful screenshots. Apply backgrounds, tweak shadows, add rounded corners and more. You can save the image or copy it to clipboard.

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[Newsletter] Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.

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Fun

Nick Maggiulli on Twitter: "The last known investor to see value outperform growth… "

“The last known investor to see value outperform growth”

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I’m thinking to make the newsletter weekly instead of every two weeks, let me know what do you think 🤔 and also share your “worth sharing links”

Articles

The best gadgets we saw at CES 2022: The Verge Awards - The Verge

CES 2022 was another weird one, but there were still lots of gadgets and concepts worth getting excited about. Here are our favorite things from the show this year.

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28 London-Based Startups You'll Want to Work For in 2022

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Videos

Why It's Important For You to Practice Failure

We learn valuable lessons when we experience failure and setbacks. Most of us wait for those failures to happen to us, however, instead of seeking them out. …

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Startups 2021: Everything that happened this year

• We don’t just make videos. We help startups present to investors. ► https://youtube.slidebean.com/- Keep your SaaS expenses on track with recurring! Try i…

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Podcasts

‎No Stupid Questions: 80. Is a “Success Hangover” Real? auf Apple Podcasts

‎Sendung No Stupid Questions, Folge 80. Is a “Success Hangover” Real? – 2. Jan. 2022

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Books

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss | Goodreads

A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in any situation.

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Tools/Products

FutureMe: Write a Letter to your Future Self

Write a letter to the future: set goals for yourself, make a prediction about the world. Envision the future, and then make it happen. FutureMe has been delivering letters to the future for millions of people since 2002.

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Busy Simulator

Pretend you’re busy by playing a bunch of app notification sounds. Made by Brian Moore.

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21 Sushi & Shisha · Uhlandstraße 142, 10719 Berlin, Germany

Only in Berlin, Sushi and Shisha Place :D

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Wishing you and your loved one’s peace, health, happiness, and prosperity in the coming New Year. 🥳

Enjoy the last Issue of the year, and please let me know how can i improve it for the next year.

Articles

The Five Pillars Of Wealth Building - Darius Foroux

I’ve identified five pillars of wealth that support our understanding of effective wealth building. You’ll see these concepts everywhere. 1. Self Investing

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A founder’s guide to community

When to invest in community, how to get started, setting goals, crafting a strategy, hiring, scaling, and much more—guest post by David Spinks

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Code less, engineer more – Increment: Teams

A short treatise on rewarding value over volume.

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The Rescue | Nat Geo Doc Films

THE RESCUE chronicles the story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of 12 boys and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.

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10-K Diver on Twitter

In this thread, we’ll walk you through various “Return Ratios” – ROA, ROE, ROIC, ROCE, etc. This will help you judge business quality better, and hence invest better.“

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Technically | Justin Gage | Substack

Technically explains software and hardware in a simple and engaging way so you can impress your boss

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The easiest way to save your child's story

Honeycomb is the easiest way to keep a baby book - perfect for parents, new moms, moms-to-be, and grandparents!

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Increment: Planning

This issue examines the ever-evolving practices of software planning—and how we can craft plans that enrich communication, alignment, and impact on engineering teams.

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Becoming a More Humane Leader

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🧵Twitter Threads

Jesse Pujji on Twitter

“Twitter is the greatest university in the world. The best part is real-time access to a diverse set of experts Here are my favorite 23 accounts to follow. They delight, inspire, and teach daily 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽”

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Sahil Bloom on Twitter

“I recently found out I’m going to be a father. Here are the principles I want to teach my child to live by:”

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🎙Podcasts

‎The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos: How to Adopt a Growth Mindset auf Apple Podcasts

How to Adopt a Growth Mindset The Happiness Lab

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📖Books

5 books I loved reading this year | Bill Gates

Bill Gates recommends these five books to read during the holidays 🎄🎅🏼

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

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🛠Tools/Products

Paper Website: Create a Website Right From Your Notebook

A new way to build websites using pen & paper. Write more content with less distractions.

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Steamclock Software

If you’re wondering what the duck is wrong with your code, it’s traditional to consult a rubber duck. What the Duck is eager to hear you explain your problem – as long as you haven’t selected Rude Mode, that is.

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Air up®

Drink pure water but experience a delicious taste. 

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Coldplay - Music of the Spheres World Tour

The official Coldplay website, featuring news, tour dates, lyrics, videos, the Coldplay Timeline and official merchandise store.

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Learning about finance and investment? into product management? or want to track global ship? this issue.

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What is product management - by Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny‘s take on the PM role

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How to ask for a raise in an inflationary economy

You’ll need to prove that your work and responsibilities warrant more pay, too.

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Krzysztof Zabłocki - Leave your ego at the door

Don’t attach your sense of self-worth to being right, because left unchecked, ego can lead to arrogance and ignorance,

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Learning about finance and investment from Twitter people?

Best twitter accounts to follow!

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📹Videos

How English evolved over time. #linguistics #language

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🎙Podcasts

Coinbase: Brian Armstrong: How I Built This with Guy Raz

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase.

Today, Coinbase is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, with 7.4 million monthly users, 2,700 employees, and over 80 cryptocurrencies traded on its platform.

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Engineering Career Paths at Big Tech and High-Growth Startups - by Gergely Orosz - The Pragmatic Engineer

Levels at big tech, the most common career paths, and what comes after making it to Staff.

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Japanese Philosophies That'll Help You Spend Money Consciously — Hulry

Japanese wisdom greatly improves our lives. Learn philosophies that’ll help you save money for things that matter and keep overspending in check.

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How to become 37.78 times better at anything | Atomic Habits summary (by James Clear)

Atomic Habits can help you improve every day, no matter what your goals are. As one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, James Clear

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How Much Do Your Friends Affect Your Future?

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الفوائد المركبة أو كما يُطلق عليها (الأعجوبة الثامنة في العالم) هي موضوع حلقتنا الإسبوع ده واللي هيشاركنا فيها ضيفنا العزيز مروان حايك.. هنتناقش في مفهوم الفوائد المركبة ، وازاي الفوائد المركبة بتأثرعلى السلوك الادخاري ، وازاي نقدر نحسب الفائدة المركبة باستخدام قانون 72

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir. He also made the first outside investment in Facebook and was an early investor in companies like SpaceX and LinkedIn.

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