Tools for Change – January 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

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” -?James Baldwin

?"Life is short. And if life is short, then moving quickly matters. Launch the product. Write the book. Ask the question. Take the chance. Be thoughtful, but get moving." - James Clear

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” - E.F. Schumacher

Tools for Being Smarter

Train Your Brain to Better Accomplish Your 2024 New Year's Resolutions.

The research-backed advantages of making reading a daily habit.?Your brain will thank you.

Take a look at this organized cheat sheet of cognitive biases and you can?discover hidden assumptions and gain better self-awareness.?

Make Curiosity Your Superpower: The Art and Science of Lifelong Learning (and Fulfillment).

Bartosz Ciechanowski is the master explainer.

This?three-minute video?explains how those annoying “I’m not a robot” reCAPTCHA checkbox tests work. It turns out the checkbox itself is not the test at all, but rather it’s your mouse movements and browsing history that give away your humanity. The video is full of surprising facts about these “completely automated public Turing tests.”?

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast, The Aesthetic Technologist: Hussain Almossawi on Art, Design and Creativity.

How do you become an innovator? What sparks creativity? What goes into creating something that becomes iconic? Instead of predicting the future, what if you could create it?

Well, that is pretty much what Hussain Almossawi does. He easily walks between digital and physical worlds as he creates futuristic concepts, experiences and objects.

Hussain is an award-winning industrial designer, CGI/Visual Effects Artist, and best-selling author of The Innovator's Handbook. He has worked across industries and around the world consulting for companies such as Nike, Apple, Adidas, EA Sports, Intel, and Ford Motor Company, among others. He is a frequent keynote speaker on innovation and design, and has taught at the Parsons School of Design, The New School, and other institutions.

In 2019, Hussain founded Mossawi Studios, a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in creating memorable, iconic, and bold experiences. He loves blurring the lines between the digital and physical worlds, creating futuristic concepts and experiences, and storytelling. At the time of this conversation, Hussain has just won first place in the DNA Paris Design Awards with his Lamborghini Performance Footwear project – which is beautiful and amazing. Hussain is an inspiration and works to make the world a more beautiful and functional place, I can’t wait to see what he does next!

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.

Tools for Productivity

The Mindset That Yields Greater Willpower, Perseverance, and Self-Discipline.

An astronaut’s tool for boosting productivity.

Apple's Rule of 3 S's for Improved Productivity.

Ritualize Your Routines to Reduce Anxiety, Connect More Deeply, and Find Greater Meaning.

The “Quiet Time Protocol” Will Increase Your Productivity.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

5 Principles To Create The Life You Want In Just A Year.

How do we go about finding a meaningful life, not just a happy one? This insightful article invites you to explore the?fascinating research on how meaning differs from mere happiness.?

What do lucky people have in common? Research suggests they tend to be more optimistic and resilient than most people, which makes them better at spotting opportunities. Here’s How to Become One of Them.

Feel Stuck? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions.

The Simpsons Writer Vowed to Do 60 New Things for His 60th Birthday. Here's why doing so holds a lesson for us all.

A new measure of success not defined by material possessions, achievements, or wealth.

Discover the power of slowing down. Use this list of slow-living ideas inspire you.

Tools for Your Career

How to ensure your performance review doesn’t suck this year.

The 5 soft skills needed to succeed in an AI-dominated workplace.

How to Vet Your Next Company.

Emergency Contacts for Your Career. Who could help if you were suddenly laid off, and get results?

What’s wrong with saying ‘I hope you are well’ in work emails?

Why self-awareness is the secret to a successful job interview.

Your biggest career risks.

Tools Just for Fun

Play is more than just fun.

These?photos.

Best short films - Short of the Week and you can also subscribe (I have). There’s great stuff here, from Oscar winners to the most ultra indie.

The funniest little New Yorker-style animal cartoons.

Just adorable.

Tools for Leadership

The First 5% Rule And Other Meeting Strategies Will Transform Your Leadership.

The 3 Reading Modes You'll Need as a Leader.

58% of workers say they spend the majority of time on work that isn’t meaningful. Here’s how to fix it.

Sir Richard Branson Calls Dyslexia a “Blessing In Disguise” and Urges Leaders to Hire Dyslexic Professionals.

How Successful Leaders Build Trust and Solve Problems.

Follow this 7-point plan to help you succeed in your new leadership role.

Tools for Founders

How to speak with authority in any presentation.

The 10 Top Technical and Business Trends of 2024.

Why millennial women are embracing angel investing.

A founder’s guide to the differences between working with private equity and venture capital firms. (Paywall, sorry.)

Tools for Relationships

Crave more connection in your relationship??Discover the power of “bids”?- the fundamental units of emotional communication we use to reach out to our partner.?

Feeling distant from your partner??Reconnecting starts with showing appreciation.?This article offers simple, thoughtful ways to express gratitude and validate each other's feelings.

What We Fight About When We Fight About Money. Do you frequently argue with your significant other about money? According to recent studies, financial conflicts are rarely about what they seem.

Explore 50 techniques to become a charming communicator.

Tools for Health and Wellness

The stairway to longevity may be shorter than you think. A global study of nearly a quarter million people uncovered that just?4,000 steps a day can significantly reduce mortality. And the benefits continue climbing with each additional 1,000 steps.?

How much ultra-processed food are you eating?

They Made It to the Top 0.2%—in Age. Here’s What Helped Them Get There.

I’m a big fan of time-restricted eating and have been doing so for a number of years now (with 18-hour daily “fasts”). New research suggests that even a 10-Hour Eating Window Boosts Mood and Energy, lowers your weight, lifts your mood, and improves your energy.

10 things you didn't know about orgasm.

Ways to Maintain a Healthy Mindset, According to the Founder of Calm.

Tools for Fitness and Performance

Get Sweaty Boxing HIIT Workout?(12?minute, plyo box or equivalent)

Stronger Full Body Kettlebell Workout?(12?minute, kettlebell, medicine ball)

195 Rep Kettlebell Challenge Workout?(Time challenge, kettlebell)

Tools for Mental Health

Research shows mindfulness training can be as effective as medication for anxiety.?Discover how this research-backed approach?is providing hope amidst the mental health crisis.?

The Surprising Downside of Too Much Self-Control. There's no question that self-control has tremendous upsides: greater productivity, career success, and financial stability. But too much self-control comes with a price.

Millions in America suffer from untreated mental health conditions. Dive into the current state of mental health across the nation. Discover key statistics and facts to understand the landscape and determine how to move forward—together.

Tools for Parents

How a pediatrician helped patients overcome their fear of shots.

Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones vs. Smart Kids.

Tools for Writers

Great Writers and Thinkers From Einstein to Stephen King Insist Forced Boredom Is the Secret to Exceptional Creativity.

Tools for Creativity

Your elusive creative genius.

Tales of creativity and play.

Can Stanford’s design school find a way to teach disruption and ethics at the same time?

Tools for Wealth Management

Higher Levels of Financial Optimism Associated with Lower Levels of Cognitive Ability. Optimism is great for your health, not so much for your finances.

Going to miss Mint? New financial tracker Monarch is ready for you.

Why You Should Aim to Be Wealthy, Not Rich (There's a Big Difference).

Tools for Investing

The Full Reset. Anything that evolves – markets, technology, careers, etc. – has to be approached with the mindset that once-great ideas can expire, and when they expire you’re better off walking away rather than attempting to repair them.

How Are You Different?

Tools for AI

Google's New Gemini A.I. Takes a Big Leap, but So Do Competitors.

Sam Altman’s brand is stronger than ever—and that’s why OpenAI will be fine.

Best Practices for AI governance: Building a Culture For Responsible AI.

Meta announced two AI video generation tools, headed for a social network near you.

Amazon unveils?5 generative AI?powered tools.

What developers should know from the?OpenAI saga.

Should we be afraid of Q*, OpenAI’s mysterious AI system?

What year 2 of the generative AI craze will look like, according to 41 experts.

What Grok’s recent OpenAI snafu teaches us about LLM model collapse.

Tools for Your Practice ?

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

Business cards (and kit) that is really different. I have been a longtime customer and big fan. I have a variety of travel photos on one side of the cards and my info on the other. Great conversation starter and really sets you and your work apart from the herd. Check out Moo today and get 25% off. Then hand out your creativity.

Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends

Healthcare leaders seek?regulation, transparency for AI?in?health?industry.

A year after launching, ChatGPT?is already changing medicine.

How AI is bringing new options to mammograms, other?breast cancer screenings.

NVIDIA BioNeMo enables generative?AI for drug discovery.

Tools from TED

TED’s 2023 Ideas Report.

What's holding you back from pursuing your biggest goals??In this TED Talk, Tim Ferriss?explores how addressing our deepest fears can unlock greater meaning and purpose.

The gift and power of emotional courage.

How to make stress your friend.

Tools for Sustainability

How Calgary Blazed The Trail For Converting Offices To Housing.

This is what actually happens at the COP climate summits.

A Bitcoin transaction uses as much water as a backyard swimming pool.

How old coal mines and abandoned power plants are being converted into renewable energy sites.

The UAE’s ‘green city’ is a cautionary tale—it’s hard to build a climate haven, no matter how much oil money you have.

Massachusetts just took a major step to phase out natural gas.

Climate anxiety has crippled our youth, with many believing they'll be the last generation before catastrophe. But?data scientist Hannah Ritchie provides a powerful counter-narrative full of hope.

Tools for Inclusion

How generational stereotypes hold us back at work.

A short history of trans people's long fight for equality.

We need to talk about an injustice.

We can’t improve health equity without diverse healthcare leaders.

Tools for, well, er, Tools

Pretty meta, check out Theo Gray’s website.?

Tools 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

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?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

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

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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, 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.)

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Cheers, and keep in touch,

Chris

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