Tools for Change – December 2023

Give People a Reason to Find You Interesting…

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 , leaders come in a variety of types and approaches. There are the proverbial Chainsaw Al’s - those tough-talking executives who are aggressive in their turning around troubled companies by laying off workers and closing factories. There are the Jack Welch types who at first seem like geniuses, but are later found to not have created sustainable change. There is a litany of heroes and scoundrels, crooks and kings of all stripe, throughout various areas of work-life and the world.

But what if there was a more heart-centered style of leadership? Something that binds the power of compassion, empathy, and authenticity together in making decisions and informing relationships with those we work and collaborate with?

Well, there is, and Deb Crowe literally wrote the book on it, or should I say the Playbook, as she is the author of the newly published Heart-Centered Leadership Playbook.

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 are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.” - Eric Hoffer

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”- T.S. Eliot

"Write your obituary and try to figure out how to live up to it." - Warren Buffett

Tools for Productivity

The Art of the 15-Minute Meeting - If your workday is constantly hijacked by meetings, consider experimenting with 15-minute meetings.

How to Stop Lying to Yourself About Why You Work So Much - Many of us work longer hours than we know we should, often at the expense of our personal relationships and health.?

The 4 unmet needs that cause us to procrastinate.

25% faster and 40% better. This is how managers can leverage the productivity promise of generative AI.

Procrastination Got You Down? Uncover 4 Unusual Tactics to Crush It.

These 6 free Windows apps will make you much more productive.

What Is The Pomodoro Technique and How Does It Increase Productivity?

How to Organize Your Email ?Does your inbox feel more like a black hole than a messaging system? You're not alone.?

The Power of Monotasking: Why Doing One Thing at a Time is the New Productivity Hack. ?What if the secret to getting on top of everything isn't multitasking, but doing one thing at a time?

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Chasing Hobbies Over Achievement Boosts Happiness - Many high-achievers assume that succeeding at work is essential to their happiness. A new study found that people who value freedom and pleasure above achievement report more happiness, enhanced well-being, and reduced stress and anxiety.

Why some of us don't have one true calling.

6 Places In Europe That Will Pay You To Move There - Across Europe, many communities are offering generous financial incentives to increase the population. Here are?six European destinations luring new residents with lucrative cash grants .

You’ve Never Had It So Good… Which Is Why You’re Stuck .

How to train your brain to become more curious.

Steve Jobs Said Living a Happy, Successful Life Comes Down to This Rare Mindset.

How long will you live your life (in full)? Check here.

5 Principles To Create The Life You Want In One Year.

Tools for Your Career

Being a manager does not make you a leader. Here’s how you can be both.

Employers are ‘quiet cutting’ employees. Here’s how it can impact your career.

Countless LinkedIn Profiles Include the Word 'Expert,' but This Is What a True Expert Looks Like.

The 48-Second Hack to Calm Your Nerves Before a Presentation - A four-step method used by Navy SEALs and pro athletes to reduce anxiety and build confidence.

You’re Doing Your Commute Wrong .

How to get a job in an industry you have no experience in.

When you become a freelancer, your identity changes. Here’s how.

Seth Godin's advice for the “Amateur Presenter ” is excellent advice if you ever find yourself called to give a public talk.

Tools for Being Smarter

The Feynman Technique is the best way to supercharge your learning. And it works no matter the subject. Devised by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.

Marc Andreessen: It’s Time To Write .

Smart Things I’ve Read Lately - “Ben Graham used to talk about Class 1 and Class 2 truths. Class 1 truths were absolutes. Class 2 truths became truths by conviction. If enough people thought a company’s stock was worth X, it became worth X until enough people thought otherwise.”?

3 Ways to Respond to Difficult Questions You Don’t Want to Answer .

Wild Minds -Something I’ve long thought true, and shows up constantly when you look for it, is that people who are abnormally good at one thing tend to be abnormally bad at something else.

Genius Wisdom ?is a daily newsletter that highlights a “legendary thinker” with practical tips and tasks for applying their genius vision to your own life.

Tools Just for Fun

The Secret Power of Fun - Three ingredients that make moments truly fun: playfulness, connection, and flow.

Rocking horses, literally .

9 Useful Netflix Features You May Have Missed.

Tools for Leadership

How to speak so that people want to listen.

My Employee Thinks He's Good at Things He's Terrible At. How to manage someone with no self-awareness.

The 5 questions leaders should ask their teams to prepare for 2024.

Being a manager does not make you a leader. Here’s how you can be both.

A leader’s guide to finding happiness at work in troubled times.

Tools for Founders

Meet the Top 218 Founder-Friendly Investors. These are the PE, VC, and debt firms that help founder-led companies grow.

What to know about hiring in tech right now , according to the head of talent at Alphabet’s growth fund.

6 Things to Expect From the Best CFO.

How a VC Helped This Startup Go From Stealth Mode to a $275 Million Sale in 2 Years.

How a First-Time Entrepreneur Secured 6 Figures of Funding by Applying for Grant After Grant.

3 Steps Every Company Should Take to Bolster Resilience in Crisis .

This Is Where Brilliant Startup Ideas Go to Die.

The Dark Side of Startup Life .?

100 books every CEO and founder should read.

7 Tips On Written Communications To Startup Investors.

Tools for Relationships

Solitude Can Be Good—If You See it as Such Being alone doesn’t make us lonely, more important is how we interpret the experience.

What Adults Forget About Friendship - This article suggests that wasting time together is exactly what’s missing from our adult friendships.

The Art of the Deep Dive: Mastering Meaningful Conversations .

Emotionally Intelligent People Stop Doing These 4 Things to Have Stronger, Better Relationships.

Are Joint Bank Accounts the Secret to a Happy Marriage?

8 Steps to Handle Workplace Conflict .

What's the difference between healthy and unhealthy love?

3 Everyday Phrases You Might Not Realize Are Actually Rude.

Tools for Health and Wellness

Forget About Living to 100. Let’s Live Healthier Instead - The goal of extending your “health span” is especially relevant when it comes to work. If your job is helping you build a nest egg for retirement at a cost to your physical or mental health, it may be time to reconsider.

What You Think About Before Sleep Influences How You Sleep - People who sleep better report having more abstract, visual and imaginary thoughts as they drift off.

Watching Movies Could Be Good for Your Mental Health .

FDA to Finally Outlaw Soda Ingredient Banned Around The World.

Tools for Fitness and Performance

The Power of Your “Exercise Mindset.”

Burpees + plyos workout .

Apartment Friendly Kettlebell HIIT Workout .

225 Rep Fierce Challenge Workout .

Tools for Digital Health

The next Apple Watch will reportedly add 3 new health sensors for diabetes, blood pressure, and sleep apnea.

Tools for Mental Health

University of Hawai?i project aims to diagnose?developmental delays, mental?health?conditions using?AI.

Matthew Perry spent millions trying to get sober. How much does it cost the average person?

Mental Health Pros: Use the 4Ds Method to Achieve a Calmer, Happier Life.

Tools for Parents

Increase Both Your Kids' IQ and Their EQ by Saying These 3 Little Words.

Tools for Writers

Nicolas, a designer at GitHub, maintains a?list of quotations ?that he shares on his personal website.

Tools for Creativity

Play this word game to come up with original ideas.

The magic of a creative career .

A Creative Spark: The 5 Stages From Blank Page to Brilliance . ???????????

Lego employees share 10 secrets for finding boundless creativity .

Why this CEO believes AI will never replace creativity .

Tools in Memory of Charlie

A few years ago, my daughter and I flew out to Omaha to attend the Annual Shareholders Meeting of Berkshire Hathaway and got up-close to Charlie and Warren (and Becky, too!) along with other notables and friends, like Guy Spier . RIP Charlie.

Charlie Munger was a lot more than Warren Buffett’s sidekick.

Behind Charlie Munger's Investment Style With Behavioral Finance Expert Professor Sanjay Bakshi.

The Generosity of Charlie Munger: One Small Story of a Great Man - by Aaron Edelheit.

Reflecting On Charlie Munger - by Adam Mead.

Full Transcript from CNBC’s “Charlie Munger: A Life of Wit and Wisdom.”

Charlie Munger: A Life of Wit and Wisdom - Part 1 and Part 2 .

Charlie Munger: These “basic rules” made me successful in life – “with Warren Buffett, I had all 3.”

Remembering My Teacher Charlie Munger - by Li Lu .

Howard Marks Talks Legacy of Charlie Munger.

Remembering Charlie Munger - by Guy Spier.

A compilation of some of Charlie Munger’s best lessons.

This Week in Intelligent Investing Podcast: Remembering Charlie Munger: Life and Legacy .

The Journal. Podcast: Charlie Munger: Curmudgeon, Sage and Investing Legend with Jason Zweig.

Charlie identified many models in the discipline of psychology in his famous "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment" speech where he went through the 25 psychological tendencies in detail. Here is the?link to Download The Psychology of Human Misjudgment .

Tools for Wealth Management

How Much Cash Should You Have for Emergencies ?

TIPS for Retirement ?

I have consolidated all of my investments with Empower, they have a great dashboard to track everything, great fiduciary advisors who regularly meet with us (and are on speed-dial), help with taxes, the works, and their fees are 100% transparent. You can get a free account and if you decide to sign up for a paid account we’ll both get six months of free portfolio management. Click here for your free account and see what I mean.

Tools for Investing

Intelligent Investing Podcast : Valuation and Capital Allocation in Declining Industries.

Ken Griffin at the 2023 Bloomberg New Economy Forum.

Tools for AI

Getting started with LLaMA .

OpenAI announces GPT-4 Turbo plus customizable version of ChatGPT.

AI is getting “more hype than it deserves” - Charlie Munger says.

Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT.

White House?wants to deploy?advanced?AI?for?healthcare.

The Biden Administration to Create New A.I. Safety Institute to Tackle A.I.'s 'Dangerous Capabilities.'

Meet Dot, an AI companion designed by an Apple alum, here to help you live your best life.

Tools for Your Practice

Most US?clinicians hesitant about gen?AI ?adoption despite its potential.

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

Tools for Technology

Microsoft launches new data and?AI?tools for better?healthcare?insights and experiences.

What is a digital twin? And why is everyone suddenly building one?

Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends

Google Cloud and?healthcare?leaders?share how generative?AI?is transforming the industry.

Atlas Meditech maps?future of surgery with?AI, Digital Twins.

How good are?AI?health?technologies??We have no idea .

DeepMind’s new skills - Google DeepMind and its drug development spinoff Isomorphic Labs announced significant updates to their AlphaFold model, which predicts the structures of proteins using just their amino acid sequences.

Duke Scientists create brain implant that may enable communication from thoughts.

Tools from TED

The secrets of learning a new language .

How everyday interactions shape your future.

Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals.

Tools for Sustainability

Why the Nature Conservancy is investing some of its $3 billion endowment in startups .

Nature is an asset class in modern business: Rachel Delacour of Sweep.

Delta’s chief sustainability officer is on a mission to use less fuel.

Confused about Daylight Saving Time? See how your life could change when it’s forever .

AI for a Cooler Earth - Phaidra’s Mission to Combat Data Center Emissions.

This wind turbine looks like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

These photos show what happens when a ‘sustainable’ bioplastic fork is dropped in the ocean.

Tools for Inclusion

From my BFF, Mellody Hobson and her famous TED talk Color blind or color brave ?

The magic of a creative career.

Psychologists explain exactly how to spot and deal with microaggressions.

Over half of employees, including white men, downplay parts of their identity to fit in better at work.

Have We Been Getting Inclusion All Wrong? ?What if our best intentions aren't enough to build inclusive workplaces??

Tools for Getting Published

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

Tools for Public Health

JAMA?News:?New?AI?tools must have?health?equity? in their DNA.

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

How AI Can Help Your Healthcare Job Search .

These 6 remote-friendly tech companies have 200-plus jobs to fill.

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 CMO’s.

Tools to Travel the World

Google Search’s?new 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.

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

Tools for Being Bougee on a Budget ?

Some say they like to experience the world’s most luxurious hotels—without paying thousands of dollars to stay overnight.?The?Royal Mansour in Marrakech , for example,?has opulent grounds and historic bars that usually are only accessible by guests. But you can enter for just the price of a meal at one of the many restaurants. It’s also nice to be friends with people who are members at?private?clubs. You might think I’m referring to?Soho House ,?Annabel’s ?or?Quo Vadis , but no. Instead, ask the universe for an invite to establishment clubs that have existed for so long their wine cellars are now priceless by sheer force of age. The?2009 Alter Ego de Palmer, Margaux , listed at?￡1,100 per case ,?is perfect for drinking and available to members of the?East India Club ?for less than it’ll cost you at a wine merchant.

A Gym Membership for Your Brain

If you enjoy this newsletter, I suspect you’d enjoy our monthly podcast. Listen on your favorite platform https://pod.link/1281672367 and for a free subscription: https://tinyurl.com/ALifeInFullSubscription

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 Connecting

If you would like to see more frequent updates and engage with others, please join the open Facebook groups at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ALifeInFull and? https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives

Tools for Better Understanding Science

As I have opined in past articles like How to Protect Yourself from Fad Science and my three part series, The Reproducibility Problem—Can Science be Trusted? , —Shame on us? , and —What’s a Scientist to do? ?This is a near-and-dear topic and concern of mine.

And my four-parter:?Strong Opinions Loosely Held: Science, Psychology, Misinformation, Vaccines, and Prosocial Ways to Respond .

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 , Forbes, ?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 , Oaktree Capital , Gust , 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. (Please email me if links do not show and I'll send to you.)

To subscribe to “Tools for Change ”? and get notifications of editions, click the blue button at the top right corner of?this page.? Please don’t be shy about sharing, leaving comments or dropping me a private note with your own reactions and requests for other tools.

Cheers, and keep in touch,

Chris

Background | Resources | Tools