While You Were Away: May 29, 2022

9 steps to designing a life of intention:

(and why most people fail)

🧵

— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh)
4:44 PM • May 24, 2022

Parenting is an incredibly difficult adventure.

It helps to have a playbook.

5 tactics to nurture your child’s developing brain 🧠🪡

— Ana Lorena Fabrega (@anafabrega11)
3:52 PM • May 27, 2022

If you feel like you are not where you want to be in life...

You need to make these 5 mindset shifts:

— Emilie Hartung (@emihartung)
9:01 PM • May 24, 2022

Kendrick Lamar has the #1 album in the world right now.

Here's what you can learn from his note-taking system:

— David Perell (@david_perell)
5:12 PM • May 23, 2022

If you find yourself at the edge of a career transition...

Here's the career advice that took me 10 years to learn:

— Amanda Natividad (@amandanat)
3:21 PM • May 28, 2022

In 2016 I co-founded a drinkware company.

It seemed insane to others

We would be competing with great brands like Yeti and Hydroflask.

We only had $200,000 while our competitors had hundreds of millions.

Today we sell over $100,000,000 annually.

A secret on how we did it:

— Mike Beckham (@mikebeckhamsm)
3:06 AM • May 26, 2022

Here are 18 simple tips, tricks, and misconceptions about money:

— Nathan Barry 🇺🇦 (@nathanbarry)
2:14 PM • May 28, 2022

One of the biggest things I learned in a decade of coaching professionals across industries & functions?

Too often individuals rely on their competence alone – believing doing their jobs well will be enough to achieve recognition & success.

Real talk: It's not usually enough.

— Karen Hebert-Maccaro ☕️ (@eduversequeen)
12:08 AM • May 26, 2022

At least 50% of startup stock options are now worthless.

Most employees don’t know it yet.

Here’s what you should know about stock options if you work at a startup:

— Xavier Helgesen 🌍📚🌳🇺🇦 (@XavierHelgesen)
10:02 PM • May 28, 2022

You only need to know 3 things to understand finance.

I could have saved myself:
- 2 years for my MBA
- $160,000 to pay for it
- 7 years at Goldman

If I just learned to read these 3 financial statements:

— Codie Sanchez 💥 (@Codie_Sanchez)
4:30 PM • May 24, 2022

McKinsey built an $11B brand by leaving nothing to chance.

Not even earning trust.

Here's McKinsey's trust-building formula:

— Jasper Polak 👨‍🔧 (@polak_jasper)
1:58 PM • May 22, 2022

Worried about getting fired, prepare now:

— Dave Kline (@dklineii)
1:04 PM • May 25, 2022

I'd made $0 online—until last week.

Now I've made my first $100.

100 bucks isn't much, but it's a blueprint for how to work smarter—not harder.

Here's my 3 step process:

(Quick 🧵)

— Alexandra Allen | Learning Designer (@AlexandraAllen_)
1:45 PM • May 22, 2022

I earned $1.4M in arbitrage profits on Solana in the last 5 months. Here is how I did it.

A lot of people are messaging me about how to get started so I thought I would make a basic outline.

More detailed article to come so make sure to follow.

A thread 🧵

— Firefly (@firefly_sol)
8:34 AM • May 27, 2022

1/ Introducing Writing NFTs

— Mirror (@viamirror)
6:02 PM • May 25, 2022

Flooding is an existential threat for Venice.

In the mid-1980s, the government initiated a plan to create a mobile dam to save the city.

After nearly 4 decades and $8B, the dam system — an engineering marvel called MOSE — is active and working (so far).

Here’s the story🧵

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)
4:03 PM • May 28, 2022

There's a new competitor to DALL-E out there: Google's Imagen.

I don't have access to Imagen but I do have some of their example images. Let's do some side-by side comparisons.

(left is Imagen, right is DALL-E)

1. "A blue jay standing on a large basket of rainbow macarons."

— Benjamin Hilton (@benjamin_hilton)
5:12 PM • May 25, 2022