Tools for Change – April 2023

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Welcome to the latest edition the monthly newsletter, Tools for Change – A Convenient Digest and Curated Collection of Information, Tools and Resources to Help You in Your Life and Work

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast April’s guest on my podcast is Doing the Right Thing: Ella F. Washington, PhD, on Taking The Necessary Journey

Quiet quitting has become quite topical in the media as of late. But perhaps the real story is quiet FIRING. That refers to an employer who doesn't give raises, or doesn’t provide promotion opportunities. Or they slight team members and actually diminish or stall their employees’ professional growth.

Everyone, both personally and professionally, wants to feel seen, and heard. Some employers struggle to listen in order to learn, and inadvertently cause their staff to shut down. And this can be in spite of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Belonging programs being in place. Harmful inequity, influence, and ignorance can be found in many a boardroom and work setting. 

Work should create a space that elevates the minds of the people in it, and collectively supports each person's voice. These are the concepts researched by organizational psychologist and DEI expert, Dr. Ella F. Washington.

 Be sure to tune in on your favorite platform, or if you’re not into podcasts, read all about it on my LinkedIn Top Voice post.

Well Said

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” – Alain de Botton

“The thrill of life is not about who we are, but who we are in the process of becoming.” -  David Eagleman

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.” - Talmud

Tools for Productivity

Trying to cut back on caffeine? There’s a whole subreddit for that.

Three Productivity Myths That Are Making Your Life Way Harder Than It Has to Be. An author outlines the most common and destructive productivity myths he encountered while researching his book. 

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

How It All Works (A Few Short Stories) - by Morgan Housel  

19 Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)

The two kinds of stories we tell about ourselves

Play a game from MIT that lets you experience special relativity firsthand.

Psychological Paths of Least Resistance - Uncertainty feels awful. So it’s comforting to have strong opinions even if you have no idea what you’re talking about, because shrugging your shoulders feels reckless when the stakes are high. Life is complex, complex things are always uncertain, uncertainty feels dangerous, and having an answer makes danger feel reduced. It’s an easy path of least resistance.

Tools for Wealth Management

Warren Buffett: Still Teaching After All These Years - by Jason Zweig

Tools for Fitness and Performance

Here's a 6-exercise bodyweight workout you can do anywhere. No excuses!

Full Body Bar HIIT Workout (12-minute, pull-up bar)

Outdoor Sprint Challenge Workout (Time challenge, equipment-free)

Tools for Your Career

Work is not your family

5 tactics to use when you’re interrupted or talked over - Speak your truth, even if your voice shakes.

Have you quietly quit? Your next step: Go to the neutral zone

How to keep work from taking over your personal life. If you have the luxury of working from home, chances are, you know all too well that remote work can be a double-edged sword without the right boundaries. So avoid working around the clock with a few key strategies to help you keep your work and home life separate in this guide post.

Tools for Investing

Buffett on Buybacks - by Roger Lowenstein and a related link: Warren Buffett on Share Repurchases

William Green chats with Guy Spier – Two of My Favorite People

Tools Just for Fun

What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 - by Ben Thompson

One of my favorite people: Kevin Kelly: Editor, Author, Futurist A brilliant interview with one of the defining thinkers of the modern tech era, Kevin Kelly. Noah Smith quizzes him on growth, AI, technology, and advice for those starting out in the industry.

An Ultra-Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse Is Coming in April - Solar eclipses have long fueled our curiosity and wonderment. And next month, we'll have the chance to witness an extremely rare hybrid solar eclipse. Here's what you need to know about it.

My son and I play a lot of chess these days(not against each other though). Here's how to get better at it. 

An Unconventional Guide to Happiness - by Mark Manson

Tools for Leadership

'Rage Applying' Shows Workplace Deficits That Need to Be Addressed- Everyone is looking for a new job, here is how to keep your employees from wanting to.

The Return of the Office: 3 Tips to Get Your Team Back - With economic uncertainty, companies need to optimize for efficiency, and managing remote teams may be far too challenging. 

My Entry-Level Employee Criticized My Work - How to explain how inappropriate that was

The one question every aspiring leader needs to ask

How your brain responds to stories -- and why they're crucial for leaders

Tools for Founders

How the Bombas Co-Founders Learned a Valuable Lesson About Scaling - When it comes time to expand product lines, it's important to have a well-researched plan.

Five Ways to Promote Your Business Without Directly Promoting Your Business - Instead of shamelessly self-promoting, try doing this

How diversity makes teams more innovative

Tools for Relationships

10 things you didn't know about orgasm

The Luckier You Are the Nicer You Should Be - Nothing too good or too bad stays that way forever, because great times plant the seeds of their own destruction through complacency and leverage, and bad times plant the seeds of their own turnaround through opportunity and panic-driven problem-solving.

This simple formula can help you introduce yourself like a pro—and not be forgotten. If people forget your name, it may be because you simply haven’t given them a good reason to remember it.

How everyday interactions shape your future

Tools for AI

No, There Isn't a ChatGPT Windows Client - It's Malware

How AI could empower any business

Coming Soon: New England Journal of Medicine-AI 

DocsGPT -The free ChatGPT collaborative for doctors & staff

ChatGPT - What it means for healthcare and medical research

The Age of AI has begun - by Bill Gates

Tools for Web3

Can the metaverse bring us closer to wildlife?

Tools for your Practice

Drug Interaction Checker

Pill Identifier

Medical Calculators

Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends

Gallbladder surgery done at long distance with 5G 

Spinal stimulation can improve arm and hand movement years after a stroke

Could a swallowable, quarter-sized device make diagnosing GI diseases less unpleasant? 

Tools for Health and Wellness

The 7 types of rest that every person needs

MRI for All - Portable low-field scanners could revolutionize medical imaging 

Disruption for Doctors - The Rise of Selfcare 

“Sleep as medicine” or how to make a hospital stay less unhealthy

First At-Home Combination Test for Flu & Covid is OK’d by the FDA

ChatGPT is poised to upend medical information - For better and worse

Tools for Digital Health

Movers & Shakers in Digital Health 

Upleveling Primary Care - Daniel Kraft, MD 

Apple is reportedly closer to bringing no-prick glucose monitoring to the Watch

A fraught new frontier in Telehealth - Ketamine

Over 1/3 of Adults Use Health Apps, Wearables in 2023

Tools for Creativity

Where Big Leaps Happen - Few talented people get all their value from being great at one thing. Being so good at one thing that it’s enough to make you extraordinary is rare. More likely are people who are pretty good at a few things and combine those things to make a big leap into something great. Steve Jobs was a pretty good technologist and a pretty good designer. Neither on their own was exceptional. But the combination of the two was extraordinary.

Podcasting is one of the most popular ways to consume content and it’s only going to continue to grow. If you want to get in on the action, She Podcasts LIVE is the event for you! This four-day event will teach you everything you need to know about podcasting - from refining your skills to growing your audience. You’ll learn from some of the top female podcasters in the world and walk away with all the tools you need to take your podcasting career to the next level. She Podcasts LIVE is committed to bringing a diverse and inclusive lineup of speakers, with the team working hard in order to make sure those chosen are 50% WOC (women of color), LGBTQIA+ or both. They also highlight industry experts as well leaders so attendees can get an inside look at what it's like being one on top! She Podcasts LIVE will be taking place in Washington, D.C. from June 19 - 22, 2023 at the MGM National Harbor. We can promise that you’ll leave feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to take on anything. Click here to learn more and purchase your ticket.

Tools for Neuroscience and Mental Health

Your brain could be controlling how sick you get - and how you recover 

Timing of physical activity across adulthood on later-life cognition 

Could Alzheimer’s be caused by an infection?

TECHBrain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates is testing mind-controlled computing on humans

Tools for Public Health

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments 

Top COVID-19 News 

Comorbidities, multimorbidity and COVID-19 

COVID deniers claim a new study says mask mandates don’t work - They should try reading it

The World Health Organization is investigating bird flu cases in Cambodia 

The Public Health National Center for Innovations

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

Public Health Foundation

Tools for Global Work and Policy

Center for Strategic and International Studies

APA’s Global Insights Newsletter

Tools for Finding Conferences

Conal Conference Alerts

Neurology and Psychiatry

Tools for Healthcare Career Insights

Curated from Medpage Today

Tools for a New Gig

5 Features of a Great Physician CV

Here’s Behavioral Health Tech’s jobs board to see all of the current opportunities from the leading companies in behavioral health. If you are looking for a new job and want BHT’s community of hiring companies to seek you out, then join their talent collective as a candidate for free here.

Or, if you want access to the central place for job candidates of all levels and roles focused on mental health and substance use tech, then enroll as a hiring company here.

See who’s hiring in health and fitness here.

From 80,000 Hours - There are a variety of ways to contribute to global priorities research, including academic research, working as a grantmaker, and doing charity evaluation.

To browse or search hundreds of recent job postings, visit the job board in PND, it includes foundation, public charity, education, and nonprofit jobs.

Positions from BioSpace

• Academic 
• Biotechnology 
• Diagnostics 
• Government
• Healthcare 
• Medical Device 
• Non-Profit 
• Pharmaceutical 
• Research Institute 

DiversityMD is a Career Job Board and Information Resource for Physicians regardless of age, race, gender, religion, education, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or physical characteristics. They are a “niche” website for Physicians of all levels of practice from Medical Students, Residents, Fellows on up to Medical Directors and CMO’s.

Tools to Travel the World

How Do You Fight Jet Lag? Formula 1 Teams Have Their Ways

Grosvenor Teacher Fellowships From National Geographic

National Geographic professional development grants 

Earth Expedition 

Ford Foundation Global Travel & Learning Fund 

Institute of International Education 

Google conference and study scholarship 

Omprakash Ethical global engagement grants 

Tata Trust Travel grants

A Gym Membership for Your Brain

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Tools for Humanitarian Intervention

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Tools for Connecting

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In Closing

And even though I know our readers are very smart, I nevertheless have to say that this newsletter does not provide medical, psychological, legal, financial, healthcare, or any other form of advice. As I have said elsewhere, don’t be a knucklehead.

Big thank you to meta-sourcing sites and folks: BioSpace, Ron Friedman, PhD, Inc., Farnum Street’s Brain Food, McKinsey & Co., Medpage, MedScape, Joe Koster from Value Investing World, FirstRound, Get Rich Slowly, Ramit Sethi, Forbes InnovationRx, The Knowledge Project - organized by theme, 80,000 Hours, The Collaborative Fund, Colossus, Sonny Patel, Unmistakable Media, Top Tier, NeuroFlow, Five-Bullet Friday, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, Health Data Management Group, Fitt, PodcastNotes, SparkType, Budgets Are Sexy, Behavioral Health Tech, Next Big Idea Club – Heleo, Section 4, Future of Health & Medicine Newsletter, Wired, Fast Co., AI and Health, The Hustle, Tim Ferriss, Sparktype, TED, and Morning Brew - be sure to check them out. And as always, I have no financial, marketing or affiliate relationship with any of the sources noted herein.

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Chris

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