Weekly Mix #180 - Effort, Audiences, Environments & Calendars

Weekly Mix #180 - Effort, Audiences, Environments & Calendars

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Happy Monday!

Trying something new and sending this Monday evening, as a friend gave me some feedback that Monday mornings are overwhelming, which I certainly understand.

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Two of my favourite short essays this week were Distracted From and There Are No New Lessons.​

In this week’s newsletter:

Article: effort​

Article: Audience as a career moat​

Article: That might not be the right question​

Article: Your Environment Shapes Your Decisions​

Article: Contemplating calendars​

10 Tweets

What I’m Watching: Penguins honor Crosby's 1000th game​

Have a wonderful week!

Graham

Article: effort - Ava​

Amazing piece.

"Here’s what I know: if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally underestimate how effort needs to be poured into talent in order to develop it."

Article: Audience as a career moat - Nick deWilde​

Having an audience is becoming one of the biggest career differentiators.

This explains why, and how you can build an audience of your own.

Article: That might not be the right question - Seth Godin​

A quick read from Seth Godin on how we can develop better ideas.

Article: Your Environment Shapes Your Decisions - Farnam Street​

This has become one of my most important realizations.

Once you understand how your environment affects you, you can change it, or at the very least, understand its influence and act accordingly.

Article: Contemplating calendars - Devon Zuegel​

I listened to Nir Eyal talk about principles from his book Indistractible this week. One of the things that stood out was he advocates using a calendar and avoiding a to-do list.

In other words, you use your schedule to determine what you do.

This piece talks about some reasons for using a calendar all the time, and specifically how it can be used.

10 Tweets:

​Austin Schlessinger and I put together a list of 26 tweets and threads about marketing​

​15+ lessons on angel investing, risk, and capitalism from Jason Calacanis on the Farnam Street podcast​

​Matthew Ball's bull case for Twitter​

​Sahil Bloom tells the parable of the banker and the fisherman​

​100 frameworks for making stuff better at work from Quinn​

​Austin Schlessinger breaks down NFTs (non-fungible tokens)​

​How Levels does remote meetings​

What I’m Watching: Penguins honor Crosby's 1000th game​

I'm showing my Canadian side a bit here, but over the weekend, the Penguins honored Sidney Crosby playing his 1000th game.

There are always lessons to be learned from sports greats. What I've always admired about Sid is how down to earth he seems. I've never met him, but almost everyone who does makes the comment.

The other thing worth noting about this video is the appearance of his friends and family. This should be something we all do!

Video of loved ones, whether on a special occasion or not, is precious, and we often forget to make something until it's too late. An example: Shaan Puri recorded a private podcast episode with his mom.​

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