BrainPint - Unfair Advantages

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This week, we're diving into things that can give us an unfair advantages in our careers, restaurants and even naptime. There's also some great tips on productivity and tools to help us save time.

Thanks for your continued support!

Cheers,
Janel

Want An Unfair Advantage In Your Career?
Learning about roles you work with can provide a meaningful competitive advantage in tech. Why? Understanding them can help you to optimize your own actions in relation to people in those roles, and most of all, build empathy that helps you nurture your workplace relationships.

5 Questions To Ask To Get A Better Restaurant Meal
Gather additional information from the server through strategically-asked questions to facilitate your decision-making in a restaurant and hence, a better meal.

Here are my favorite questions that I'll be using right away:

• What’s the staff excited about right now?
  
• Is there a dish you are known for?
• Is there anything you think our order is missing?

The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews
A thoughtful and introspective take on the joy of Google Reviews & an appreciation of how they offer a unique glimpse into people's lives and experiences. A great reminder that we can always find beauty in unexpected places.

Fun fact: I love Google Reviews and have made the effort to review places I've been to, so others can learn from my experiences and help ensure the businesses I love get discovered and flourish. 100+ reviews and counting!

How To Be Productive
Sam Altman's collection of insightful productivity tips. A few choice quotes that really resonated:

• It doesn’t matter how fast you move if it’s in a worthless direction. Picking the right thing to work on is the most important element of productivity and usually almost ignored.
• It’s important to learn that you can learn anything you want, and that you can get better quickly.
• It is critical that you keep enough space in your schedule to allow for chance encounters and exposure to new people and ideas.
• Don’t neglect your family and friends for the sake of productivity—that’s a very stupid tradeoff.

How To Nap
Learn how to nap to effectively recover from lost sleep, or get more rest in order to remember better.

ChatGPT Sidebar - Chrome extension that serves as your AI assistant while browsing any website, helping you translate, rewrite, summarize or explain any text you select.

Numerous.ai - Extract text, categorize, generate formulas, and use ChatGPT right inside your spreadsheet (Google Sheets & Excel).

Dark Mode Checker - Check that your email templates are playing nice in dark mode before hitting send.

Tech Productivity - A weekly newsletter featuring tips, tools, apps, and articles on productivity, focus, work culture, brain science, and more.

Get access to a database of all jobs at the Forbes Cloud 100 startups, refreshed weekly. One-time payment. Use code FIVEOFF for $5 off.

The No-Code MVP Bootcamp by 100DaysOfNoCode is a 30 day program for entrepreneurs, creators & doers who want to learn the fundamentals of no-code to test + launch their ideas.

Share your work with >6k curious BrainPint readers by reserving a spot in Brain Snacks!

Time Period Selfies - AI generated time traveler selfies, showing soldiers, warriors, and people from various time periods. Made me smile.

Small Purchases - A reddit thread of items <$100 that can make your life better.

Plan My Movie - Figure out what time a movie will end through this tool that tells you based on the runtime and either the current or specified time.