Trevor McKendrick - How to win an Olympic Gold medal

Hi all,

Have a terrific week.

Trevor

The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand (article)

“This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker found herself surrounded by a deranged, heaving mob. She had tomato soup and placards thrown in her face. She was doused with water. Huge men screamed insults and expletives in her face. The shoving of the crowd became so intense that Parker feared for her life. ‘I genuinely thought that if I fell to the floor I would never get up again’, she said. ‘My children would lose their mother and my husband would lose his wife.’”

10 things that always work in SaaS marketing (article)

Simple, straightforward, just takes hard work & dedication.

What I Miss About Working At Stripe (article)

One of the few articles that talks honestly about what working hard looks like while also saying more places had that culture:

This stood out to me the most:

“Once, my manager asked me to reconsider the vacation I had been planning because my team needed me. ‘If you go, who will cover your work?’ I looked around at my colleagues who were also regularly working 15-hour days and decided to stay put. I’m proud of that choice. Call me masochistic, but I have to admit that it felt good to care about anything that much.“

How many places work like that? How many places should work like that?

The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI (article)

OpenAI was originally a non-profit that Elon Musk donated $100m to, with plans to donate a billion.

It later became a for-profit entity. Sam took no equity ownership.

BTW: Free idea to make $10 million bucks: start a daily newsletter focused on AI.

Tweet by Julie Gurner

“Confidence is one of the biggest life hacks, and I'm not sure anything else even comes close.”

How to Skate a 10k (article)

Highly recommended!

Written by Nils van der Poel, the Gold Medal Winner of 5000m speed skating.

I’ve never seen an Olympian write a 50(?) page document on their training strategy, including journal logs, especially in something that’s as well written as this.

Here’s a video of him winning the Gold Medal by .47 seconds.

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