Tools for Change – March 2022

Welcome to the latest edition of 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 Living a Life in Full

March’s Guest on my podcast is Mark Mahaney, a top ranked Internet analyst every year for the past 15 years— thirteen of those in the “top 3” and five years as number one. Mark was also ranked by the Financial Times and StarMine as the number-one earnings estimator and stock picker. In addition, TipRanks has placed Mark in the top one-percent of all Wall Street analysts in terms of single-year stock picking performance.

In Mark Mahaney’s new book, Nothing But Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons from One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts, and in this episode, he shares stock-picking lessons from both his best money-making stock calls and his biggest mistakes. He walks us through the history of the commercial Internet, including the Dot Com Boom and the Dot Com Bust, describes which companies succeeded spectacularly and which failed miserably—and why—explains what drives stock prices—especially for high-growth Tech stocks, and provides ten hard-earned lessons for building a powerful Tech stock portfolio. Be sure to tune in on your favorite platform.

Well Said

"For people who achieve great things, they often maintain a very ordinary mentality. In other words, if you keep an ordinary mind, accept yourself as you are, and do well for yourself, you can often do things well. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things." —?Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech

"There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. I think that diet is the biggest sacrifice in my life. Then, looking after your soul. No one can possibly treat your soul but you yourself. This is something you can do through culture and philosophy." —?Brunello Cucinelli

Tools for Productivity

Intentional learning in practice: A 3x3x3 approach - Learning can be honed through practice. Here’s an effective strategy to continually learn, grow, and achieve development goals.

You Get 25,000 Mornings In your adult life, you get about 25,000 mornings. This is a great list of things you can do to make them as positive as possible. Developing a "pre-game routine" for your day can be a game, and life, changer. Read how.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

The Daily Stoic Podcast: Robert Greene on the Value of Objectivity and the Transience of Life (Link)

The Knowledge Project episodes?organized by theme.

How to Succeed at Failure?by Arthur C. Brooks / The Atlantic

Listen to Your Own Advice - There’s a fascinating disconnect between the advice we give to others and the choices we make for ourselves. Research suggests we tend to be harder on ourselves and kinder toward others. Want to narrow the gap? When facing a difficult choice, imagine that you are advising a friend and then take your own advice. The Atlantic

Reinventing Your Life At 30, 40, And Beyond I’m a big fan of both Rich Roll and Tim Ferriss, so this was a treat for me. Rich talks about how he completely reinvented himself later on in life—and how we can all do the same. How will you reinvent yourself this year? Watch/listen here.

Tools for Fitness, Performance and Wellbeing

Is It Better to Exercise in the Morning or Evening? - The same exercise routine may produce different health benefits depending on the time of day. A new study suggests it’s possible that morning exercise has a greater impact on fat loss, while late-day workouts have a greater impact on blood-sugar control. - New York Times

"He has a thing about celebrating, Kipchoge. Sees it as something sinister, something dangerous, a self-indulgent act that might derail his mindset, make him think, somewhere in his subconscious, that he has arrived, the inference being he has nowhere left to go. He’ll punch the air at the finish, alright, but try to get him into an open-top car or to attend a huge welcome-home party and you’ll get a polite but firm rejection. Which begs a question: If he can’t bask in the glow of his achievements, when is Kipchoge truly content? Maybe that’s the thing about all-time greats. Maybe they never are. “I’m a believer that if you climb to one branch,” he says, “then you reach for the next branch.”" - Inside?The Mind of Eliud Kipchoge

Stress and burnout come with the territory of starting something from nothing. Studies show that entrepreneurs, not surprisingly, have a?higher than average rate of anxiety and depression?compared to the general population. For some insight into how to manage the particular mental health challenges entrepreneurs face,?Inc. tapped Paul Sheesley, a Washington D.C.-based psychotherapist, who regularly advises executives on their work-life balance.?If you feel yourself starting to reach burnout, here are?three easy things you can do today?to help manage it.

How To Want Less (From a Happiness Science Expert) “Mick Jagger's satisfaction dilemma—and ours—starts with a rudimentary formula:?Satisfaction = getting what you want. It’s so simple, and yet its power is deeply encoded within us. Give a 3-year-old the French fry she is reaching for and see her satisfied expression. But then, after a couple of seconds, watch the wanting return. And that’s the actual problem, isn’t it? The Stones’ song should really have been titled ‘(I Can’t Keep No) Satisfaction.’ It’s almost as if our brains are programmed to prevent us from enjoying anything for very long.” (The Atlantic)

Tools for your Career

Why 2022 Is the Year You Get Your Dream Job Much of the conversation surrounding “the great resignation” focuses on whether to quit your current job. This article takes a smarter approach, exploring how you can leverage this unique moment to land the job of your dreams. -?Wall Street Journal

The most fundamental skill: Intentional learning and the career advantage - Learning itself is a skill. Unlocking the mindsets and skills to develop it can boost personal and professional lives and deliver a competitive edge.

New York Times bestselling author, podcast host and speaker?Luvvie Ajayi Jones?recently joined LinkedIn Senior Editor at Large?Jessi Hempel's?Hello Monday?series to discuss making the choice to be brave. In their conversation, Luvvie shared what it means to be "too much" in every room, how to confront the desire to be liked, and how she recommends approaching?negotiation. Learn more here.

So You Botched a Job Interview. What’s Next? Sometimes job interviews don’t go well, but that doesn’t mean you’re out of options. Here are some strategies for bouncing back (hint: It starts with a carefully written thank you note). Harvard Business Review

Tools for Investing

The Two Things to Do When the Stock Market Gets Crazy - by Jason Zweig (LINK)

Physicians on Financial Independence - I enjoyed the different perspectives shared by Jim Dahle, aka the White Coat Investor, and Leif Dahleen, aka the Physician on FIRE, on what changed and what didn’t, respectively, for each after achieving financial independence.?Life After Financial Independence: Two Perspectives.

What happens to your cognitive abilities and psychological health after retirement? How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain?

David Tepper: The King of Bouncing Back (LINK)

Tools for Leadership

The boss factor: Making the world a better place through workplace relationships - Businesses looking to make an external social contribution should, paradoxically, look inside: improving workers’ job satisfaction could be the single most important thing they do.

Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development - While the benefits of psychological safety are well established, a new survey suggests how leaders, by developing specific skills, can create a safer and higher-performance work environment.

Help your employees find purpose—or watch them leave - Employees expect their jobs to bring a significant sense of purpose to their lives. Employers need to help meet this need, or be prepared to lose talent to companies that will.

Lazy Work, Good Work?Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anything, quiet time alone in your own head to think a problem through. Rockefeller’s product – his deliverable – wasn’t what he did with this hands, or even his words. It was what he figured out inside his head. So that’s where he spent most of his time and energy.

Tools for Founders

The Art of Becoming a Better Listener — Tactical Advice for Startups - User research leader and author Ximena Vengoechea makes the case for why you should put more intention and effort into sharpening your listening skills, offering advice tailored to different levels and roles across the startup org chart.

The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas - The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different. Here’s his framework.

This Week in Startups Podcast: John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins with Ryan Panchadsaram + VC Sunday School: cap table management | E1379 (LINK)

Do you employees ever come into the office hungover??Here’s what to do about it. –Inc.

Here are?three reasons why?you might want to consider selling your business in 2022. –Inc.?

Views on whether employers or companies are responsible for?enforcing work-life balance?often depend on age. –Fast Company

Some candidates are developing tactics to outwit applicant-screening technology. Watch out for?these signs. –Wired?

Tools to Be Aware of What’s Impacting Health & Medicine?

Future of Therapy?and Medicine

Predictions for the Future of Medicine: From 3D Printed Pills to Smart Toilets. The next 10 years will make the last 10 look slow. (Medium)

Doctors at the?University of Alabama-Birmingham?successfully transplanted a?gene-edited pig kidney?into a brain-dead human, paving the way for clinical trials and hope for thousands of patients suffering from kidney disease.?

Billionaire investor?Mark Cuban?launched an online pharmacy?offering more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price.

Uber?has hired Michael Cantor, a geriatrician and healthcare executive, as its?first chief medical officer, a sign the ride share and delivery technology giant is expanding deeper into the healthcare industry.

AI & Big Data

IBM sells Watson Health data on 270 million Americans - The?Watson Health?era is over at?IBM. The company?sold the core data and analytics assets?of its struggling health division to?Francisco Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm with an active portfolio of health technology investments. The deal ends a dark chapter for IBM, which failed to live up to its promises to use AI to revolutionize drug discovery, cancer care, and hospital operations. It also instantly makes Francisco Partners a significant player in a growing national market for buying and selling sensitive patient data. The firm will soon own the national MarketScan insurance claims database, which includes medical and drug data on more than 270 million Americans, as well as smaller datasets containing medical images and other clinical information. Here is the full story.??

New Research on Remote Screening and Use of AI-Powered Risk Stratification in Behavioral Health Care Settings - Two studies, each published in peer-reviewed journals, present new evidence to support the use of technology to collect and stratify patient-generated data, optimizing clinical workflows in behavioral health care settings.?Learn more.

Neuroscience and Mental Health

Psychiatry-focused telehealth company Minded raises $25 million:?The startup aims to make mental health prescriptions and ongoing care easier to access from one’s home. (TechCrunch)

US Mental Healthcare Access Trails Other Nations’ Due to Cost

Moods “Since 1972, the survey has asked respondents the following question: Taken all together, how would you say things are these days--would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy??Typically, the people who say they’re very happy outnumber the not too happy crowd by about three-to-one. Indeed those numbers have been fairly constant for half a century. But in 2021 that all changed. The very-happies plummeted from 31 percent of the population in 2018 down to 19, while the not-too-happies surged by a nearly identical amount, from 13 to 24 percent.”

Global Health

Very Sad News Physician remembered as global humanitarian, author and Partners in Health nonprofit founder Dr. Paul Farmer passed away unexpectedly in Rwanda at the age of 62. The Harvard Medical School professor and Brigham and Women's Hospital executive was known internationally for his efforts to bring health care to vulnerable populations. ?Full Story:?NBC News and Paul Farmer’s legacy is the lives he saved - by Bill Gates (LINK)

Tools for Growing?Your LinkedIn Network

Do you use LinkedIn to prospect? Are you looking for a proven way to build a network of quality connections? In this video, find a step-by-step strategy to cut through the noise and ensure that your requests are accepted. Watch on?YouTube.

Tools to Develop Instagram Superfans

Want more customers from Instagram? Wondering how to get your fans to do the selling for you? Explore a how-to strategy for capturing, engaging, and converting superfans who'll tell their friends about you. Listen on?Apple,?Google, or?Spotify.

Tools for Understanding NFTs for Business

Have you heard people rave about non-fungible tokens (NFTs)? Wondering how they can be used for business? Discover a deep dive into the world of digital goods and what you need to know to use them. Watch the interview on?YouTube or listen on?Apple,?Google, or?Spotify.

Tools for Health and Wellness

The reason?journaling makes you better

Will Omicron Leave Most of Us Immune? (LINK)

The Peter Attia Drive Podcast: #192 - COVID Part 2: Masks, long COVID, boosters, mandates, treatments, and more (LINK)

Tools for Public Health

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

Registration Now Open for INMED's 2022 Humanitarian Health Conference - In person in Kansas City, MO on June 10 – 11, 2022, Pre-Conference Courses: June 8-9, 2022 Relevant topics. Amazing Speakers. Same mission: Equip, Connect, Go! Register here

Conal Conference Alerts

Neurology and Psychiatry

Tools for Healthcare Career Insights

Curated from Medpage Today

New study finds rocket scientists and brain surgeons actually aren't smarter than average.?But one small thing does set them apart. –Inc.

Tools for a New Gig

To browse or search hundreds of recent job postings, visit the?job board?in PND, it includes foundation, public charity, education, and nonprofit jobs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere.

Ramit Sethi as a guest on three podcasts on how to find your Dream Job

·??????The Jordan Harbinger Show:?"I Will Teach You to Find Your Dream Job"

·??????Lifehacker's The Upgrade:?"How to Get a New Job"

·??????Art of Manliness:?"How to Land Your Dream Job"

Positions from BioSpace

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

Apply for the Atlas Corps Virtual Leadership Institute The Atlas Corps Virtual?Leadership?Institute for?US?and?Russian?Professionals?which is an online learning community for global?social impact?leaders based on the established Atlas Corps Global Leadership Lab.

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.

A New Book from a good friend Keith Ferrazzi

?What did the most successful leadership teams do during the pandemic to pivot, innovate, and thrive in an era of uncertainty??

Based on an ambitious global research initiative with Harvard Business School and 2000 CEOs, senior executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers around the world, “Competing in the New World of Work” is a roadmap to the future of leadership for the post-pandemic era.?

#1 New York Times bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi shows step-by-step how to redefine your business and elevate your team to win the future, through collaboration and inclusion, resilience, agility, and foresight. And how to use new technologies and digital tools to reinvent your business model and workforce for this new era. Any team at any organization can apply these lessons from the best of the best of business, and learn how to out-innovate your competition, and build unstoppable teams. The truth is, there’s no going “back to work” – there’s only going forward to work. So don’t regress to old ways. Leap ahead of your competition instead with these tactics from Harvard’s top post-pandemic business leadership book. Learn more here.

Tools for Enjoyment and Learning (Like a gym membership for your brain)

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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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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.

Tools for Travel Help

Hesitant to book that vacation or business trip??Bloomberg’s Covid Travel Tracker?uses data gathered each week from reporters on the ground—restrictions and requirements related to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, offices, museums, hotels, shopping centers and public transportation and spaces—to?monitor to-and-from travel restrictions in 40 global cities. Grades for each?destination on ease of travel, openness?and vaccination rates are updated regularly.

Tools for Pandemic Assistance

Here is a handy fact-checking website to cut through Covid vaccine misinformation. It includes: “Places to go for accurate information include the CDC (which already has a FAQ about Covid vaccines), the FDA, major hospital websites such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Vaccine Education Center, and reliable fact-checker websites.”?You can find?a list of those websites here, courtesy of the University of California.

Get the?latest updates here, as well as?maps?and a?vaccine tracker.

Look up case rates?for almost every country.

Here’s where to find?affordable tests.

Virus resources:?Here are the latest rules?|?Global Maps & Cases?|?Global vaccinations?|?Vaccine Q. and A, and?see how the vaccine rollout is going in your county and state.

These?seven podcasts?will help you navigate feelings about the world reopening, and ease you back into society at your own pace.

Click here?to download the Internet Resource Guide: COVID-19 and Grief.

Finally, please learn about the Free Research on COVID-19 from APA Journals. APA Publishing is committed to sharing the latest psychological research on COVID-19 with the public. They invite you to browse their free collection of articles published across the APA Journals portfolio. Click here to see more.

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: Ron Friedman, PhD, Inc., Farnum Street’s Brain Food, McKinsey & Co., Medpage, Joe Koster from Value Investing World, FirstRound, Ramit Sethi, Forbes InnovationRx, The Knowledge Project - organized by theme. - 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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