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How to Find your Profitable Business Niche
Finding your profitable niche is about serving your ideal potential clients who need help to address their pressing needs and solve their salient problems (pain points) and who are willing and able to invest in your solutions, in a way that allows you to build a profitable business and iterate to awesome !
What I am reading, Listening to
2 reasons why businesses destroy creativity (and what to do about it) — Ozan Varol
Decision-making: A Guide to Making Smarter Decisions and Fewer Errors — Farnam Street
To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight — Quanta Magazine
In his new book, Indistractable, Nir Eyal explores the dark side of habit-forming products and provides strategies for overcoming the power of distraction — Ask me anything : Nir Eyal — Ozan Varol
The analytics academy: Bridging the gap between human and artificial intelligence — McKinsey Quarterly
Stuck in a Mid-Career Rut? Get Help from a Mentor — The Harvard Business Review
Feeling Burned Out? Here Are 3 Things That Can Help —The New York Times
It's Easy To Be a Good Leader When Things Are Going Well - Here's a Blueprint for a Crisis — Friday Forward
Social media anxiety is real & here to stay: On World Mental Health Day, users reveal how social media has impacted their lives — the good, the bad and the really ugly. —The Print
Melinda Gates Pledges $1 Billion To Gender Equality : Gender equality has been a long-standing priority for Gates (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Pivotal Ventures). It is also the subject of her 2019 book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World — Forbes
How to Dream Big, Think Scientifically, and Get More Done (#389) — Neil deGrasse Tyson — The Tim Ferris Show Podcast
How to Change Your Story to One That Empowers You — a conversation with Sarah Peck — Unmistakable Creative
Philip McKernan on taking ownership of your struggles, speaking your truth and becoming who you are destined to be ... and much more — Unmistakable Creative
Laura Linney on What Makes Good Criticism — Hello Monday Podcast
Whitney Johnson on Disrupting Yourself — Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work — Famous Failures Podcast — Ozan Varol
This could be why you’re depressed or anxious (TED Talk) — Johann Hari — Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
On Creative Process, Creative Struggle, and Motherless Brooklyn (#393) — Edward Norton — The Tim Ferris Show Podcast
Feel like you’re about to lose it? Here is how to hit Pause — Psychologist Marc Brackett has a helpful Strategy — ideas/TED
Attorney Lydia X. Z. Brown on Making Work More Accessible — The Distributed Podcast
What You Do Is Who You Are : Lessons from Silicon Valley (#392) — The Tim Ferris Show Podcast
This Week In Startups :
E988: Jason is joined by Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner of Cowboy Ventures who pioneered actionable change to diversify tech & VC, shares early days innovating in e-commerce, insights on current funding landscape, dangers of prioritized growth over sustainability ...
E989: The Next Unicorns: Culture Amp CEO & Co-founder Didier Elzinga is building an employee analytics platform that keeps workers satisfied & motivated, shares insights on the changing role of culture...
Ce nouvel épisode de Contre toute attente a du punch — Alexandre Mars échange avec Sarah Ourahmoune, une battante dans la vie comme sur le ring
Siham reçoit Claire Gibault, cheffe d’orchestre et fondatrice du Paris Mozart Orchestra — Episode #77 Generation XX
La chronique de Pascale Seys — Musiq3 RTBF — Les Tics de L'actu
Que nous réserve le banquet de la vie?
Petit tour d'horizon du mensonge
Quotes I am pondering
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated ― James P. Carse ― Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see ― Arthur Schopenhauer
Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right ― Attributed to Haruki Murakami
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ― Warren Buffett
We rise by lifting others ― Robert Ingersoll
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it ― Lillian Hellman
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say…. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing...the thing that might be worth saying — Gilles Deleuze
One of the key insights from Bushido is that a culture is not a set of beliefs, it’s a set of actions — Ben Horowitz
The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant — Jordan Peterson
The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan — Attributed to Carl von Clausewitz
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