Gratitude for Book Recommendations

• I'm grateful for several friends and colleagues who have shared books and knowledge with me.
• I'm grateful to Marc for challenging me to read one book each week in July and accomplishing the mission.
• I'm grateful to Peter for sharing this wisdom-packed Google Drive folder of 90 ebooks (Compound Effect, Rich Dad Poor Dad's Cashflow Quadrants, and Brass Knuckle Finance are all great reads - seriously click the link to bookmark the folder to read when you feel bored).
• I'm grateful to Howard for sharing the Zappos Library of books they want their employees to read.
• I'm grateful to John for publishing his second ebook, Mastering Social Impact For Entrepreneurs: Transform Your Lean Startup With Social Impact, which will be required reading for all my students next semester.
• I'm grateful to Jess for introducing me to industrial and organization (I/O) psychology to study more deeply.

Need New Content?

• Celestine Prophecy (movie or audiobook or insightful book summary)
• Ibram X. Kendi on "How to Be an Antiracist" [49 minutes]
• Netflix: Animal Crackers, Eurovision Song Contest, Outer Banks, Supermarket Sweep (yes, that one! 15 episodes available now), and Umbrella Academy
• Hulu: Apollo 11 documentary, My Cousin Vinny, and other 90's classics
• Review this Complete List of Avengers Movies
• Wayne Dyer - How To Attract Exactly What You Want [11 minutes of uplifting inspiration to help you think about and attract the things you want in life. It’s on its way.]

• Affirmations for the Seven Chakras [7.5 minutes listening to my voice give you affirmations to repeat and strengthen your energy]
• Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People awesome audiobook with lots of insights into understanding people's personalities (OCEAN), appreciation languages (like 5 love languages), and primary value resource (love, service, status, money, goods, or information). You can learn more via Captivate's Digital Bonus Resources
• Meditation for Self-Compassion [10 minutes]
• Spies. Secrets. Soviets. And tight leather pants. Wind of Change is an Original Series from Pineapple Street Studios about The Scorpions.

• Neuroscience of optical illusions because “reality” is constructed by your brain. Here’s what that means, why it matters, and some really fun images to look at.
• To Build Resilience in Isolation, Master the Art of Time Travel biggest lesson from an astronaut who spent a year in space: when the present is stressful, it helps to think ahead to the future and back to the past. Imagining how we want to feel the day this crisis ends is a source of hope; recalling past hardships is a source of strength. We’ve conquered adversity before, and we can overcome it again.
• Unconditional positive regard is defined by humanistic psychologists to mean expressing empathy, support, and acceptance to someone, regardless of what they say or do. When people feel safe and accepted, honesty follows. Unconditional positive regard facilitates self-actualization by letting us know it’s okay to think, feel, and behave the way we do.

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Reading Notes

• That Will Never Work details the Netflix origin story from 1997-2003 with a fascinating look back at the evolution of technology from VHS to DVD, which was a big deal 20 years ago and basically irrelevant in today's streaming era...a few key lessons learned from this book and Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World:
• Encouragement is oxygen for the soul, so look for opportunities to encourage your team
• You have to love people before you try to lead people
• Netflix's next day DVD delivery surprisingly generated massive new user sign-ups because of customers' evangelism and word of mouth marketing to friends about how Netflix met their unrecognized needs
• Time + Talent + Perseverance = See Your Dreams Become Reality
• Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE because of the Compound Effect
• You just need to start, and nobody knows anything
• Compare yourself to you yesterday, not to younger people who aren't you
• Mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power
• Thriving ecosystems have permeable boundaries between teams
• Polymath advantage states that people who are in the top 25% for multiple skills are more likely to be successful
• If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging
• Be nourished by the love of your family
• You can check out my library for a series of book reports on my favorite books, and you can expect to see one of my book summaries in each of these monthly newsletters: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It because it does, and the central theme of this book is to say "I Love Myself" when you breathe in and to find time each day to do 10 breaths focusing on self-love. It is powerful. When making a decision, ask yourself, "If I loved myself truly, madly, and deeply, what would I do?"

Laughing Out Loud

Math and Numbers

• [Pro Tip: If Medium or another online platform asks you to login/sign up/pay to read articles, copy the URL, push Ctrl+Shift+N to open a new private browsing window, paste the URL, and enjoy reading the content as an anonymous user]
• Can Math Help You Find Love? quick 4-minute video about the optimal stopping problem for picking your mate. TL;DR: Spend the first 37% of your dating life playing the field, having a nice time, not taking anything too seriously, and benchmarking the highest quality partner. Then, after that period has passed you settle down with the next person who comes along that is better than everyone you’ve seen before. It works well.
• 3 Science-Based Ways to Become Psychologically Bulletproof tell the people around you, who are amazing and you trust, what you truly want for yourself
• Who is your desired future self? and 5 Crucial Questions To Get What You Really Want 
• 7 creative ways to organize your mobile apps color coding, FTW
• 8 Science-Backed Ways to Increase Your Hope by filtering your inputs, looking for the third door, praying, or meditating
• 10 Free Classes to Learn to Code <code> Hello World! </code>
• 12 Tools That’ll Help You Build a High Converting Landing Page great for testing any new startup ideas
• 13 Tips for Getting More Reading Done the best one is to quit reading things you don't enjoy and read what you like the most first, so then you can enjoy one of these 11 Books You Can Read In Self-Isolation To Work Better From Home, Improve Your Health And Stay Hopeful 
• 23 Lessons From Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letters To Shareholders instead of writing annual letters to shareholders, I am going to keep writing monthly emails to friends and family :)
• 26 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders 
• 40 Over 40: Who’s Having the Best Rap Career After 40? do you have any doubt about who is #1?
• 44 Important Truths to Remember While Creating A Bigger Future my favorites include "tell other people you love them, every single day" and "everything happens for you not to you" and "80% of your energy should be dedicated to learning/self-improvement/recovery" and "if you win in the morning, you'll win at life"
• 45 Paper Airplane Folding Designs pure joy
• 58 Zoom Tips for Remote Working turn off your view of yourself, so your brain doesn't obsess over how you look on video

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