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Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!
Blog posts from the past week
- Curiosity is worthless without honesty.
- Postscripts are popular. “Voegele found that 90% of readers stopped to read a PS on a letter, and that if they did, they read it word for word.”
- Notes from “Day Trading Attention” by Gary Vaynerchuk. “Figure out where underpriced attention is and learn how to effectively storytell in those places. But as I always say, you can’t just read about doing push-ups. Execution is the game, and that’s the hard part.”
- Unbalanced lives can lead to great things. “If you want a balanced life of equal portions of work, personal, and family time, you might have to go to work for a big, successful company and hope you never get laid off. If you want to be remarkable and make a difference, you may be facing an unbalanced life and years of toil and sacrifice.”
- How to take advantage of LinkedIn’s secret lists feature. LinkedIn has a fantastic feature to build lists of people that you want to follow, but it’s quite hidden away.
- Borderline content (sadly) performs the best. When it comes to social media engagement, there is one type of content that almost always performs the best — it’s the content that’s almost a policy violation, but not quite.
Noteworthy articles that I read
- Elicitation – CIA’s Technique to Make People Talk Without Them Realizing. A short, fascinating video shared by my friend Jay that talks about the idea of elicitation — getting answers from people not by asking questions, but just by making statements.
Books that I’m reading
I read for a total of 3:33 last week with the following:
- Continued reading “Unoffendable“
- Continued reading “Nearbound“
- Continued reading “Give to Grow“
- Started reading “Finding Focus“
Tech Rec
Stealing the idea from my friends at the Tech Talk Y’all podcast, I’ll drop in some tech recommendation every week as well.
- Focus Friend. A cute little app from Hank Green that helps you put down your phone. You have a small friend on the screen that likes to knit, so you set certain lengths of time to let him do his work, say 20 minutes. During that time, if you disturb him he’ll stop and be disappointed in you. However, if you let him finish you can use his work to decorate your room. It’s cheesy, but surprisingly effective!
I hope you found some value in this. If you ever have questions, ideas, or disagreements regarding anything I write, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
