BrainPint - More Output, Less Overwhelm

Hi everyone,

This week we're diving into how to become better listeners, how we can beat overwhelm with fewer decisions and why skyscrapers are short and how to retain what we learn.

Cheers,
Janel

The Art Of Becoming A Better Listener
We tend to train ourselves to be better speakers, and often neglect listening as a skill. Here's a tactical guide for how you can become a better listener at work

The Choice-Minimal Lifestyle: 6 Formulas for More Output and Less Overwhelm
The fewer choices you have to make, the less overwhelm you face. Here are 6 frameworks you can use to start making fewer decisions. My favorite is "Regret is past-tense decision making. Eliminate complaining to minimize regret." All mistakes can be learned from.

Another favorite shortcut is making fewer decisions on clothes these days! The benefit of remote work is that I can throw on any random tee and/or a sweater. So freeing.

Why Skyscrapers Are Short
Limits to building taller skyscrapers laid out - demand, technology, physics, engineering, regulation and more.

How To Retain What You Learn
Learning is a meta-skill—arguably the most important meta-skill. Retain what you learn through these following steps: 1) Inspired Consumption 2) Unstructured Note-Taking 3) Consolidation 4) Analogize and 5) Idea Exercise.

How To Newsletter
A free guide on how to start, grow and find content for your newsletter by the amazing Ann Handley.

Clay - Create spreadsheets that enrich themselves, no code necessary. Stream in data from anywhere, enrich this data and prioritize what you want to do with it. 

iFixit - Guides on how to repair almost any broken thing. Why get a professional to do it when you can fix it yourself? Learn how to replace cracked tiles, fix electronics, repair car headlights, replace batteries and more.

Time.is - Find out the exact time now in each time zone.

Traffic Simulation - Simulate how traffic flows in this webpage. Play around with car-following behavior, politeness of vehicles... for no reason at all except to have a bit of fun?

Netflix Codes - Netflix files everything under a genre and subgenre code. This site compiles the not-so-secret numeric codes that will help surface all the shows / movies in a genre!

Dinosaur Game - Compete against the world in the much beloved dinosaur game.