Trevor McKendrick - What to do with your life

Good morning

Short list today.

Have a great day!

Trevor

A list of cancer articles, ranked (youtube)

Hank Green ranks all the articles written about him having cancer. Surprisingly enjoyable.

Thread from Peter Thiel on what to do with your life (article)

Some great lines from Peter Thiel’s closing thoughts of the CS183 class he teaches @ Stanford:

“The future, we are told, is just probabilities and statistics. You are a statistic.

"But the obvious answer is wrong. That is selling yourself short. Statistical processes, the law of large numbers, and globalization—these things are timeless, probabilistic, and maybe random. But, like technology, your life is a story of one-time events.

“So go find a frontier and go for it. Choose to do something important and different. Don’t be deterred by notions of luck, impossibility, or futility. Use your power to shape your own life and go and do new things."

More people should probably read the Bible…

Monzo Bank’s “tone of voice” document (article)

Monzo is a UK bank startup w/ $100s of million of revenue.

They wrote a document about how to talk & write.

I love it.

I agree with so much of it: good writing is clear writing. Without unnecessary words.

I’m surprised they published it for everyone to see, but I’m happy they did.

More banks – nay, more companies – should learn to talk like this.

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