BrainPint - Compounded Luck

Hi everyone,

This week we're diving in on compounded luck, how to navigate downturns as an employee, what causes logos to look the same and learn how to make products that people will pay for.

Cheers,
Janel

Compounded Luck
"Early luck has a massive impact. Where you’re born, the caste society puts you in, whether or not you were appropriately precocious in various early ranking systems–these all get compounded. 

Compounding early luck is generally fine with people who have early luck. What a surprise. But it’s unfair and it’s also a talent-utilization problem that hurts everyone. When we fail to create the conditions for people to persist with resilience until the luck comes along, we all lose."

Become Default Essential
A guide to navigating downturns as an employee. The key is becoming so essential to your company with the impact you make at work.

• Audit your portfolio of work
• Find essential scope
• Globally optimize

What's Causing Logos To Look The Same?
Many iconic brands have switched to very standard looking logos. What's causing this shift? Dive into it (and multiple theories) in this thread by David Perell.

Essential Guide To Making Digital Products People Will Pay For

• Commit to excellence
• Create something you know a lot about
• Focus on a broad audience, but offer a unique solution
• Start charging for your product/service

A 7-Step Playbook To Growing On TikTok

A tactical read on how to choose a niche, create content and flywheels to grow on TikTok.

Tiny Wow - Tools that solve your file problems. Merge PDFs, convert JPGs to PDFs, compress files and more on a web-based tool. For free.

Freebies By People - Curated and neatly categorized collection of free commercial use resources and tools for designers + developers. 

Ventusky - Detailed weather maps which show wind, rain and temperature.

How Much World - Create a map of all the places you've visited in the world. 

Earth.fm - Spotify, but for soundscapes. Listen to the calming sounds of nature.