Tons of great content this week:
- Why Saying Is Believing: The Science of Self Talk [NPR]
- Why Founders Should Care About Happiness [First Round]
- How to Get Sleep Before a Big Race (Or Event) [Ben Greenfield]
- Financial Net Worth Is AboutTime, Not Money [AARP]
- The Problem with Long Term Thinking [Fool]
- Keith Rabois Interviewed on How to be a Great COO [DataFox > First Round]
- How To Be Efficient [Bakadesuyo]
- The Wisdom of Kevin Kelly [Ben Casnocha]
- The Science of Conquering Your Greatest Fears [Outside]
- Jason Calcanis Interviews Camath Palihapitiya [ThisWeekInStartups]
- How Hard do Founders Work? [EquityKicker]
- How to Learn Faster [Hitenism]
- How To Be Absolutely Awesome: Auren Hoffman on Career Advice [Summation]
- Tim Ferriss Interviews Tony Robbins & Peter Diamandis [Tim Ferriss]
- Peter Thiel on Why AirBnB Should Be Worth More than Uber [Pando]
- Guide to Cure a Wine Hangover [WineFolly]
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Unlike Uber and Lyft, Thiel argued, there is no obvious competitor to Airbnb. That in and of itself makes it [Airbnb] a more valuable company
“Your job as an executive is to edit – not to write. Every time you do something you should think through and ask yourself: am I writing or am I editing? and you should immediately be able to tell the difference.”
“People expect to change little in the future, despite knowing that they have changed a lot in the past,” the authors wrote. “And this tendency bedevils their decisions-making.”
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