Check your Pulse - Check your Pulse #66
Check your Pulse #66calling all rabbit hole voyagers, paying you to think, and cultivating a long term mindset
Hi, I’m Sari Azout and this is the the 66th edition of Check your Pulse, a tech and startups newsletter designed to make you feel human. If you’ve been sent this email and you’re not a subscriber, you can join by clicking on this big red button below. Hi, friends, old and new. It’s been a while. As I shared in the last issue, I stopped publishing Check your Pulse consistently because I went all in on startupy and there is less than zero time for me to stare in luxury at a Google doc these days, but I do have some fun thoughts/updates/links to share today, and I suspect I’ll be back sporadically with more. Sari ✨ Apply to join Startupy Season Zero We recently announced the launch of startupy’s Season Zero and are inviting all rabbit hole voyagers, curators, concept librarians, and knowledge remixers who want to get in on the ground floor to help us shape startupy to be the best human-curated knowledge graph. If you get a high from collecting, highlighting, and organizing interesting links on the Internet, I’d love for you to join us! Full deets here, but the tl;dr is:
✨ On the relationship between inputs and outputs. I haven’t stopped thinking about this passage from Rob Hardy’s The Pattern since I read it a few weeks back:
The relationship between inputs and outputs is rarely linear. This has become especially apparent in my day to day work as a founder - where the decision of where I allocate my time - say, chasing another 1,000 members for an immediate outcome - means spending less time on the things that lead to greater payoffs down the road. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to cultivate a long-term mindset, and drawing inspiration from the startupy community’s contribution to this topic. ✨ On paying you to think Two years ago, when I started this newsletter, I was in the lucky position that I was slightly underemployed - I had a team, some spare time and decided to allocate more of that time to reading, writing, and exploring my interests. What I didn’t realize at the time was how much of a luxury it is to have time to think. That feeling hasn’t left me. It's weird that most people are either thinkers/researchers for a living or not and there's no middle ground. I’ve been thinking of how I can pay it forward. The only way to do great work in any field is to find time to consider the large questions, read, and think. But unless you’re in school or academia, this usually doesn’t happen. What would a microgrants program where we pay people to go down intellectually rich rabbit holes of their choosing and share their insights look like? As you probably know, I’m obsessed with thinking about new ways of incentivizing quality, nourishing content on the Internet (see ghost knowledge) so expect me to take action on this insight soon. 👀 🧠 This is a really great collection of quotes
💭 There is so much gold in the founder mindset page I’ve been curating on startupy. If you are a founder navigating through the messy middle, you’ll enjoy this. 🧘🏾♀️ This from Sam Harriss is one of the most compelling descriptions on the benefit of meditation: Your mind is the most rambling, chaotic, needling, insulting, insufferable person you will ever meet. Thoughts do not hold rightful claims on your life—meditation helps you welcome the good ones and ignore the bad ones 📜 Advice has no value until it is parsed into specifics. In my experience, breakthroughs happen when the advice gets specific. “Seize the day” is good advice, in the sense that it contains a powerful truth about living well. But it’s not nearly as useful as, “Do something that intimidates you before noon,” or “Never put something off a third time, if you plan to ever do it.” If you’re wondering who’s behind this newsletter:My name is Sari Azout and I am the founder of startupy - the world’s first community-curated knowledge graph. Our curators collect, organize, and store the most interesting links on the Internet, and make them easily searchable and discoverable. Want more?Follow me on Twitter, Medium, and Instagram. Want to chat?Drop me a note at sari@startupy.world If you're enjoying this newsletter, I'd love it if you shared it with a friend or two. You can send them here to sign up. Thanks for being here! If you’re wondering who’s behind this newsletter:My name is Sari Azout. I am a design-thinker, strategist, early stage startup investor at Level Ventures, and founder of Startupy (coming soon). My mission is to bring more humanity and creativity to technology and business. Want more?Follow me on Twitter, Medium, and Instagram. Or get access to my second brain. 🧠 If you're enjoying this newsletter, I'd love it if you shared it with a friend or two. You can send them here to sign up. And if you come across anything interesting this week, send it my way! I love finding new things to read through members of this newsletter. Thanks for being here! |
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