Here’s what’s new this week.
Why Building Your Business Online First Is Backwards (YouTube)
Next, a few short thoughts this week.
Money
“How you build your audience and who’s in it determines how you ultimately monetize that audience.” – Snow Leopard
2.
“When you are young, you have raw smarts; when you are old, you have wisdom. When you are young, you can generate lots of facts; when you are old, you know what they mean and how to use them.” – Arthur Brooks in From Strength to Strength
Health
1.
Strength training to improve mental health is vastly underrated.
Relationships
1.
The airport test:
Somebody you know is arriving on an early-morning flight. Of course, they can grab a cab from the airport. Do you pick them up?
Logic isn’t the point. Effort is. True friendship isn’t passive. It acts
2.
True friendship is fundamentally an act of service. You have to learn how to be a friend before you can make a friend. Maintaining one is hard. It takes time. Time none of us have enough of with our ambitions and families and the pace of our hectic lives.
This means going first. Putting yourself out there, showing vulnerability, inviting them to stuff, reaching out, following up, and understanding that life gets busy but a true friend is with you over the ebbs and flows of it all.
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Just got back from a whirlwind day in New York city. Woke up at 3:45am. Caught a 6am flight. Breakfast meeting followed by a meeting and a meetup and a quick nap and a dinner meeting. Flew home the next morning. Exhausted and energized at the same time. Meeting people in-person, away from a screen is special.
-Jon
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