Weekly Mix #189 - Remote Work, Languishing, YOLO, Zoom Brain & NASA's Best Earth Photos

Weekly Mix #189 - Remote Work, Languishing, YOLO, Zoom Brain & NASA's Best Earth Photos

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Happy Monday!

Earth Day was last week, which is a great time to reflect, enjoy, and think about how we can help preserve the Earth.

One of the things I do is offset my carbon footprint using Wren. If you have the means, I'd encourage you to use them or a similar service.

Or do something else! But try and translate thought to action in some way.

Quick reminder:

Ship 30 for 30, the 30-day writing challenge, is down to a few spots left for their May cohort. You can get $20 off here.

What I Worked On

Blog: Remote Work is Here to Stay​

Short Essays: Why I Like Working Saturdays and There's Only One Way to 10X Productivity​

Have a wonderful week!

Graham

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Links

📖 Remote Work is Here to Stay - My thoughts on where work is heading, why hybrid work will be painful, and the best models for remote/distributed work.

I added these as further reading at the bottom of the post, but I'll add them here as well. All good pieces on remote work:

​How to Do Hybrid Right - HBR​

​Distributed Work's Five Levels of Autonomy - Matt Mullenweg​

​The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication​

📖 There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing - NYT - Not sure about the scientific basis for this, but it did resonate with me, and naming it is helpful. In short, it's what you may be feeling if you've noticed a drop in your motivation or overall ambition in life.

📖 Welcome to the YOLO Economy - NYT - Continuing the work-related theme this week, perhaps unsurprisingly, lots of workers are re-evaluating their career, or choosing to take some time off.

📖 This is your brain on Zoom - TechCrunch - Not sure this would make a scientific paper, but some interesting data that seems to support Zoom meetings being more draining than in-person meetings.

📷 NASA's all-time best photos of Earth - As a celebration of Earth Day, here are some stunning photos from NASA.

💵 WealthSimple Cash - The ability to send cash instantly finally makes it to Canada! Send and receive money using the WealthSimple app (I use WS for investments too). Canadians only.

10 Tweets

​​Greg Isenberg shares tips for high performance​

​Andrew Wilkinson on ways to avoid misery​

​The twisting journey of founders, from Steph Smith​

​Nick deWilde on understanding value​

​The four value props companies can make, from Nathan Barry​

​How to find and buy a business from Shaan Puri​​​

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