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Here's to another trip around the sun. It's been incredible to be on this 7 year journey with each of you. Today's post contains 43 lessons on life, career, money and happiness.

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43 Lessons on my 43rd Birthday

It's my 43rd birthday and I've lived a little, laughed a bunch and learned some stuff along the way. Here are 43 lessons on life, money and happiness that I've collected along the way. Caveat emptor!

1. Always show others compassion. Everyone is suffering in their own private way.

2. The marginal utility of the next dollar flatlines pretty quickly.

3. When you find a really good fitting t-shirt, buy 6 of them.

4. It’s possible to build a kick-ass business while working 30 hours per week.

5. You're probably consuming too much sugar.

Here are this week's top reads:

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Thinking from first principles

10 minutes | Profit Well
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In both my personal and business life, I’m always trying to distill action and activity to a series of first principles. I’ve really enjoyed Patrick Campbell’s vision of entrepreneurship (not to mention that he bootstrapped a $200 mm exit). I love the emphasis on Socratic questioning, the 5 Whys and Most Charitable Interpretation (MCI) for conflict resolution.

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Remote work should be (mostly) asynchronous

6 minutes | Harvard Business Review
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Remote work has become all-consuming and never-ending — the Slacks and email messages bleed into all parts of our personal lives. How do we disconnect and set boundaries?Asynchronous communication, which gives workers the freedom and flexibility to decide not just where they work but when. There are dozens of digital tools (we love Loom and Notion) that can help achieve this kind of workplace, but ultimately what’s most important is a leader who communicates that it’s perfectly okay not to respond to things in real time.

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Managing your mental health while running a startup

6 minutes | Future
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Startup life can seem glamorous, but it’s rife with challenges, and there’s a surprisingly high rate of depression among founders. It takes discipline to take care of yourself properly as a founder. Some advice from Okta’s CEO? Find founder peers at the same stage as you or slightly ahead. Take vacations. Miss a deadline every now and then. And as flight attendants will tell you, put your mask on before someone else’s.

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How to pitch sales

2 minutes | Reddit
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A simple cheatsheet on persuasion and understanding someones motivations. This list is relevant not only for sales and marketing, but for anyone looking to convince someone that you’ve got something to offer them. Remembering things that most humans want to gain (health, time, money), do (satisfy their curiosity, improve themselves), and save (time, money, work) is an important place to start.

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Gen Z's war on modern day work

9 minutes | Vox
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Do you work to live or live to work? Much of our social status is build around the jobs we hold and how hard we work. However, the pandemic and “great resignation” have ignited a new discussion around our priorities and the current generation entering the workforce has some different ideas about the American Dream.

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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​Notion for Business: The Ultimate Guide (RadReads, 1,142 clicks)
• ​My twelve rules for life (Medium, 751 clicks)

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And finally, that first morning mirror glance is rough.

With gratitude,

Khe

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