BrainPint - Do Things, Tell People

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This week we're exploring what to do when you have too many ideas, science-backed ways to learn faster, the trillion dollar opportunity in search and the world's best food delivery service, amongst useful new tools.

Cheers,
Janel

Do Things, Tell People
"You would not believe how much opportunity is out there for those who do things and tell people. It's how you travel the entrepreneurial landscape. You do something interesting and you tell everyone about it."

5 Things to Do When You Have Too Many Ideas and Never Finish Anything
What do you do when you’re overwhelmed with too many ideas?

1. Create mini-deadlines
2. Use the 80/20 rule
3. Trust your gut
4. Develop the habit of finishing
5. Practice Quitting

The World's Best Food Delivery Service
Learn about the Dabbawalas, the 125-year-old network that feeds Mumbai. Every day, they deliver hundreds of thousands of meals on foot and by bike, most often without using technology. It's reliable, affordable and ranks as one of the world's most efficient logistics systems. 

A Trillion Dollar Opportunity
The Internet is a central hub for knowledge, information, and economic activity. Google is its biggest gatekeeper, however search these days lacks trust & personalization. Talia Goldberg serves up characteristics that the next Google should have: Ambient and in workflow, generates summaries & dialog/answers, not a list of links, context aware & personalized (including context of who the user is). Another reason why sites like Reddit should double down on search.

6 Proven Ways To Learn Faster

How to speed up the learning process by applying neuroscience-backed tips.

• Teach someone else (or pretend to)
• Use the power of mental spacing, aka distributed learning
• Learn in short bursts, dedicating 30-50 minutes to learning new material.
  

What Are Microservices?
Elon Musk commented on Twitter’s backend problem and his plan to turn off microservices bloatware recently, causing lots of chatter amongst engineers. What are microservices exactly? They are a way of building your application as a series of small, interacting services instead of one giant bundle of code. More in this informative article.

The Definitive Guide To Content Marketing
Backlinko created a comprehensive guide on content marketing that will teach you:

• How to promote your content
• Content formats that are working right now
• Content creation strategies
• Advanced tips, strategies and techniques

Paste - Paste stores everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, so it’s always there whenever you need it. It's clipboard on steroids, and I never knew I needed it until I downloaded it. A year into using this, I can't imagine life without it. Super handy for code snippets, newsletter writing, curation and all sorts of things. It's a paid app, and is also included in a Setapp subscription.

Futurepedia - The largest directory of AI tools, updated frequently. In related news, Notion just released the alpha of Notion AI, a writing tool. Check it out!

Listening.io - Turn articles into audio via Chrome and listen to them in your podcast app.

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Toxic Positivity - Avoid toxic positivity - here's a list of things you shouldn't say and some suggestions on how to better phrase things.

Guess The Year - A guessing game where you guess when an event happened. When was Windows 98 released?