Tools for Change – April 2024

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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.

Well Said

“It’s the strangest thing: A lot of people as they get older get more protected and terrified. My desire is to keep throwing myself into things. My parenting, my relationship, my work. I’ll take the pain. I’ll take the joy. Because the feeling makes me go, I’m in life. It’s an enormous gift, this life.” - Nicole Kidman

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship, that makes unhappy marriages.” -?Friedrich Nietzsche

“Many of life’s failures are people who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison

Tools for Being Smarter

The?Library Extension?will change how you find and borrow eBooks.

Try this to increase your mental focus.

Unlocking innovative solutions through problem reframing.

Computer scientist explains one concept in 5 levels of difficulty (zero-knowledge proofs) - a?zero-knowledge proof?“is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true, while avoiding conveying to the verifier any information beyond the mere fact of the statement's truth.”

Ignorance, a skilled practice?by Sarah Perry.

The dumber side of smart people.

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast, Octavia Goredema on Doing Work that Matters.

How do you get the job, or position, or career, where the work that you do matters - and not just to your employer - ?but to you? Few experiences in life are as awful as the feeling of being trapped in the wrong career. But how do you find a job that truly resonates with you? And once you’ve found it, how do you develop the confidence to take the necessary steps to arrive at the career of your dreams? Or how do you recover from a career setback and seize new opportunities?? How do you deal with the uncertainty behind a career change and what gives you the confidence to hit a reset-switch on your professional life?

These are the questions, areas and issues in which Octavia Goredema thrives, as she works to help others navigate their own personal career success. ? Octavia is the host of the Audible Original series,?How to Change Careers with Octavia Goredema?and the author of?PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women,?published by Wiley. Octavia founded Twenty Ten Agency, a career coaching practice, where she has coached leaders at Google, American Airlines, Tinder, General Motors, Nike, and Dow Jones.

Her insights have been featured in Fortune, CNN,?Fast Company, Harvard Business Review,?the?Los Angeles Times,?The Guardian, and?Black Enterprise, and this year she contributed a chapter to the Harvard Business Review’s new book,?Navigating the Toxic Workplace. ?? I see her work as a gift shared with her readers, her listeners, and her clients. Her wisdom, her transparency in the sharing of her experiences, and what she does, all demonstrate how she lives her life in full, and in the service of others.

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

Tools for Productivity ?

Techniques for overcoming procrastination in your business career.

The 1-minute way to forming a new habit.

Essential insights into goal setting.

How to set goals and achieve them.

Small breaks, major gains: boosting productivity and wellbeing.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Growth without Goals by Patrick O’Shaughnessy.

Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things.

How to stop catastrophizing and start living the life you really want to live.

Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life.

David Chapman presents a path for truth-seekers who need to derive their values from first principles.

The Daily Stoic Podcast: The Curse Of Success - Morgan Housel.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Tools for Your Career

6 common mistakes that sabotage your likability in a job interview.

Why to think twice before taking that top job.

Employees are incredibly lonely. Use the 40-1-5 Method to build more connection at work.

How to find a job you’ll actually like.

Be yourself and follow your heart is BS career advice.

How to tell if a prospective workplace is toxic.

37 pieces of hard-fought career advice.

Tools Just for Fun

April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Guide: Everything you need to know.

Freakonomics Radio finished a 3-part podcast series on Richard Feynman (Part 1,?Part 2,?Part 3).

By far the best source for official plans, programs in progress, and technological breakthroughs has been a stellar YouTube channel called?The Space Race.?

Oscar winning actor & writer Tom Hanks gives the Oxford Union an acting lesson.

The 24 Best Places to Go in 2024.

Tools for Leadership

8 leadership strategies for maintaining morale in tough times.

Michelle Obama offered an emotional intelligence master class in how to balance authenticity and strategy.

Employees said they’d work harder if recognized. These are the types of recognition they want.

When layoffs are coming: The pros and cons of signaling downsizing.

What’s most important in a CEO: Humility, authenticity, or empathy?

Tools for Founders

Dying to reach the top? Most CEOs face exhaustion, burnout, and even early death--but small-business owners don't.

I'm married, have 4 kids, and run a business from home. these 12 weekly habits saved my mental health.

3 ways to start, grow, and sell a company without venture capital.

Why many businesses don't grow as much as they should.

Tools for Venture Capitalists

The anti-VC success story: Chess.com

Tools for Relationships

How wine and memories intertwine.

How to keep the spark alive in your partnership year after year.? ??

Decades of research shows friends help you live a happier, healthier, and longer life, but with one very large catch.

Plain English Podcast: How to have the hardest conversations—in marriage, politics, and life with Charles Duhigg.?

Tools for Health and Wellness

Mediterranean and MIND diets boost memory retention in midlife.

Bryan Johnson: Five Habits for Longer Living on The Knowledge Project Podcast.

Can you beat your genetics with lifestyle changes?

Tools for Fitness and Performance

Six exercises for anyone glued to a desk or phone.

Four things top performers do every day.

The 4 expert-backed steps that will help you reach your fitness goals this year.

Tools for Being Ethical

Does working hard really make you a good person?

Leadership red flags Elizabeth Holmes should have raised—and how you can spot them yourself.

Tools for Mental Health

Academia and the Anxious Generation: How Universities Lost the Trust of America with Jonathan Haidt.

The power of constraints to protect against existential anxiety.

Discipline is freedom - which means constraints are too.

AI chatbots can help with your mental health. Just don’t think of them as therapy.

Tools for Parents

Jonathan Haidt’s new book,?The Anxious Generation, was just released. There is?a long article?adapted from the book online, and he also appeared on the The Joe Rogan Experience.

Tools for Creativity

How to generate good ideas.

How to unlock creativity in work and life.

How anxiety can be your secret creative superpower?by?Jason McBride.

Tools for Wealth Management

A memorial for Charlie Munger.

How You'd Like to Live, What That Will Cost: Medscape Physicians Retirement 2023 Report.

Can Doctors Meet Retirement Finances Goals?

The friendship with Warren Buffett that led to her $1 billion donation.

Why Switzerland is?home?to so many billionaires.

Tools for Investing

Why not 100% equities - by Cliff Asness.

Unpacking the?secrets?of the world’s greatest investors.

Warren Buffett’s 2023 Letter to Berkshire Shareholders.

The Compound and Friends Podcast: Warren Buffett’s margin of safety.

Tools for AI

How to build?your own custom GPT.

AI that knows?how depression looks.?

Harvard Medical School dean announces winners of inaugural AI grants.

How AI can transform education.

Tools for Your Practice ?

What are some of the best tools for private practice? Find out here and here.

Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends

How to build a foundation in AI to accelerate health transformation.

A Microsoft-powered medical AI spotted cancer in 11 women where doctors didn't.

Google AI could soon use a person’s cough to diagnose disease.

Can artificial intelligence extend healthcare to all?

Tools from TED

TED is 40 — here's how it all started.

“How can I give a TED talk?”

Tools for Sustainability

Lululemon wants to recycle your leggings back into leggings.

The Supreme Court might reverse this vital 1984 ruling. Which would be terrible for air and water quality. Known as ‘Chevron deference,’ the 40-year-old decision gives federal agencies wide latitude to interpret laws. Conservative groups have been gunning for it for years.

NYC’s first all-electric skyscraper doesn’t use a drop of fossil fuel.

Tools for Inclusion

Yet Another Annoying Study About Double Standards at Work Shows Social Climbing Works for Men but Backfires Spectacularly for Women.

Zoom Layoffs Target DEI Amid a Broader Pullback on Diversity Initiatives.

What we’re losing in the blinding whiteness of advertising.

Tools for Writing and For Getting Published

Join my Master Class in Getting Published – All 8 Courses are Free for a Limited Time

Tools for Public 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

April 4-5:?Community Oncology Conference?(Orlando)

April 8-11:?Becker’s Hospital Review: 14th Annual Meeting?(Chicago) Virtual April 16-18

April 8-11:?American Organization for Nursing Leadership Inspiring Leaders Conference?(New Orleans)

April 9-12:?Business Group on Health 2024?Annual Conference?(Tucson, Arizona)

April 10-12:?National Association of ACOs Spring Conference?(Baltimore)

April 12-15:??Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Converge Conference?(San Diego)

April 14-16:?American Hospital Association Annual Meeting?(Washington, D.C.)

April 16-17:?24th Annual Employee Health Care Conference?(New York City)

April 23-26:?National Association of Healthcare Access Management Annual Conference?(Dallas)

April 25-27:?MGMA Focus | Financial Conference?(San Diego)

Tools for Healthcare Career Insights

Curated from Medpage Today.

Tools for a New Gig

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.

New Scientist Jobs USA is the best way to take the next step in your career in the life sciences, biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and more.

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?jobs 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 CMOs.

Tools to Travel the World

Google Search’s?features?include?a flight price guarantee badge on what Google thinks is the lowest price. If you book with Google and the price drops, you’ll be refunded the difference.

Flush Toilet Finder

GlobeTips - Tip Calculator & Tipping Guide

ExpressVPN

CBP MPC - Mobile Passport Control

TheFork - great app for booking restaurant reservations in more than 30,000 restaurants in Europe

Xe Currency Converter - Realtime foreign currency exchange rates

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

Travel Carbon Neutral Luggage Requirements State Department Warnings World Weather Customs Service Travel Documents FAA - Travel Advisory

International Travel Health

A Gym Membership for Your Brain

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Likewise, if you are not already following my LinkedIn Influencer/Top Voices posts in a group with almost a half-million followers, you may enjoy reading the posts there as well. ?

Tools for Humanitarian Intervention

Please visit our website: https://www.centerforglobalinitiatives.org/. We’re proud to be a top ranked Great Nonprofit (since 2013!) and to have achieved Platinum Level from GuideStar.

Tools for Racing to Help Others

I am proud to announce that I have just signed a Contract with Hammer Nutrition and will be serving as a Brand Ambassador for the 2024 season as a Motorsports Athlete. As was first mentioned in my LinkedIn Top Voice piece, Weirdo Challenges, I wrote that I would be adding Motorsports to my “Resume,” and this year I’m focused on automotive (next year motorcycle) racing of various stripe and challenges – including Land Speed Racing, Road Courses, Gymkhanas, Rallies, etc. It will also serve as a fund- and awareness-raising effort for The Center for Global Initiatives.

A nice courtesy (thanks Hammer folks!) is that they provided a 15% Friends and Family Discount. Just use this link. I’ll be covering my preparation, experience, and results on my YouTube Channel, so stay tuned!

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,?Fortune Well, 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, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Noah Kagen/AppSumo, Fast Co., AI and Health, The Hustle, Tim Ferriss, Sparktype, TED, Good Life Project, AI Healthcare News, New York Times, Recomendo, We Study Markets, The Six Minute Mile, Oaktree Capital, Gust, Matter, 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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Cheers, and keep in touch,

Chris

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