Tools for Change – March 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 greatest threat to success is inconsistency.” - Shane Parrish

"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side." - Charlie Munger

“I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.” - Anthony Bourdain

Tools for Being Smarter

Simple habits that can help sharpen your memory.

4 steps to help you be the most interesting person in any conversation.

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast, Creativity and Innovation in Business and Design: Lance Cayko on (re)Inventing Architecture.

At the intersection of architecture is art, creativity, design, engineering, sociology, psychology, and inspiration, not to mention survival, sustainability, and comfort. It’s been said that architecture is the art we live in. We’re all impacted by the communities in which we live, the spaces in which we work, along with the places we visit and experience throughout our lives

So what is it that makes for good architectural design? How does a space become iconic? How does an architect go from project, to design, to engineering, to completion?? Well, Lance Cayko knows a lot about the answers to those questions, and more.

Lance is a great role model for living a life in full, not just a founder and architect, but also how to be antifragile in a field with more than its fair share of challenges via mindful leadership and creativity. I think you will enjoy this episode with such an authentic and innovative individual.

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 ?

How to Craft the Perfect Daily Schedule.

The best AI productivity tools in 2024.

Why the secret to success is setting the right goals.

How to write emails that get responses.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Can quitting be as virtuous as persisting?

The schedule for your perfect weekend.

Sam Altman’s healthy routine?to unlock peak productivity.

Turning goals into growth loops: Plan, Act, Reflect, and Iterate.

Hugging the X-Axis by David Perell.

Tools for Your Career

A practical guide to finding motivation and new meaning in your work.

How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work.

5 hiring tips every company (and job seeker) should know.

Picking a career that?actually fits you, from Tim Urban.

4 questions to ask yourself to know if you’re committed to your job, or just interested.

Tools Just for Fun

The best?unedited photographs.

This is awesome.

Take laughter, add tears: the secret recipe for the most-liked Super Bowl ads.

An incredible?illusion.

Tools for Leadership

Follow Eisenhower's Simple Formula for Inspired Business Leadership. As Ike wrote 75 years ago, “Plans are worthless, but planning is indispensable.”

The single most important thing you can do as a leader.

These are the 4 essential leadership skills you need to navigate a crisis.

Ways to build trust as a leader.

Navigating work overload post-layoffs: A Leader’s Guide.

Tools for Founders

How Entrepreneurs Can Succeed Despite Industry Headwinds.

8 Corporate Traps That Startups Always Fall Into.

How High-Performing Teams Build Trust.

Learn to create a winning elevator pitch from Matthew McConaughey's spirited 60-second sales speech.

Tools for Venture Capitalists

These VCs invest in purpose-driven startups - here's what they look for.

Tools for Relationships

Discover how building and nurturing relationships can not only enrich your life but also?enhance your well-being. Uncover the science-backed benefits of social connectedness. It's a call to action to cherish and foster the bonds that make us happier, healthier, and truly connected.

Connection impacts mental health, academic success, and overall well-being, so, uncover the keys to?fostering deeper, more meaningful connections?in your life and the lives of those around you.

Breaking Points - A brutal and beautiful piece about the lesser discussed problem of friend breakups.

Your fiends don’t all have to be the same age.

Tools for Health and Wellness

Dive into this short talk to?uncover how sleep affects your life.

The Art of Resting - More than just relaxation.

At least 19 CEOs died on the job last year. Why top leaders need work-life balance.

Why 10,000 steps a day isn’t the secret to better health anymore.

You can’t reverse the aging process but these?5 things can help you live longer.

Tools for Fitness and Performance

13 killer exercises to mix into your HIIT workout at home.

Tools for Digital Health

US researchers engineer?tiny earrings to track stress, periods, and more.

Samsung's galaxy watch gets?FDA approval for sleep apnea.

Tools for Being Ethical

How to Be Good - An exploration of the Western mind, what personal identity is and how it might change throughout the techno-absolutist 21st century.

The Bill Gates problem:?do billionaire philanthropists skew global health research?

Tools for Mental Health

How people learn to become resilient - the unexpected science of why some kids “should” churn out of school based on hardship and circumstance, but they don’t, and what we can all learn from them.

Cedars-Sinai launches groundbreaking?AI and VR program for mental health.

Illinois partners with Google?AI to streamline children’s behavioral health services.

Ketamine therapy for?mental health a wild west?for doctors and patients.

3 mental health strategies can reduce negativity, lower anxiety, and help you be happier.

Tools for Parents

How Alli Webb Balances Parenting With Entrepreneurship.

School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris.

Childhoods of Exceptional People by Henrik Karlsson.

Does My Son Know You? Fatherhood, cancer, and what matters most.

Tools for Creativity

“Some wise words from synth pioneer Herbie Hancock.” This is an amazing story from a very young Herbie Hancock about Miles Davis - rare video.

10 reasons why designers can be leaders who make a difference.

This building made of growing trees could change the way we think about architecture.

Brian Collins on the secret no one wants to tell young creatives today.

Tools for Wealth Management

A Few Thoughts on Spending Money – Morgan Housel.

The Truth about building wealth.

Tools for Investing

The Irrelevant Investor - 10 Predictions for 2024.

“Charlie’s Checklist” - Munger’s detailed methodology for examining situations and making decisions, covering areas like patience, allocation, change, analytic rigor and more.?

What I Learned When I Stopped Watching the Stock Market - by Jason Zweig.

The Thin Line - confidence in investing is an endless struggle to find your balance.

Tools for AI

The IMF unravels the multifaceted impact of AI on our work and wealth, their recent article calls for a?balanced approach to harness AI's potential for good.

OpenAI's Initiative: Developing an early warning system for potential?biological threats aided by LLM’s.

Google just killed Bard and replaced it with Gemini. It's more than just a name change.

Tools for Your Practice ?

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

Why?HIPAA is no longer enough to guard health data.

Tools for Technology

Bain & Company: How to successfully?scale generative AI in pharma.

Tools for Technology & Healthcare Trends

Neuralink is conducting the PRIME Study, seeking people with quadriplegia to test a brain-computer interface (BCI) – Watch here.

This biotech is re-engineering cells to fight one of the cruelest cancers.

Apple Vision Pro?partners look to usher in new era of healthcare.

Why the?tech industry won’t disrupt?healthcare.

Move over, CRISPR:?RNA-editing therapies?pick up steam.

Tools from TED

The 3 skills every middle school boy needs.

Where joy hides and how to find it.

Tools for Sustainability

This article from the United Nations News discusses how the?transformation of food systems is crucial?in addressing global challenges such as population growth, urbanization, climate change, and changing consumption patterns.

The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: Talk about it.

Ever wondered if your small actions could really make a difference in the vast tapestry of our planet's health??This heartening collection?showcases inspiring tales of environmental triumphs from around the globe, reaffirming the power of collective action.

Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution. Here’s how to wash your clothes more sustainably.

Tools for Inclusion

How?people create close-knit bonds that transcend traditional family structures, providing support and understanding in a way that's both uplifting and inspiring - whether you're seeking to expand your own circle or curious about this aspect of queer culture, this piece invites you to discover the power of chosen connections.

The VA can?protect women’s spaces and transgender vets?- here’s how.

The power of diversity within yourself.

Tools for Advocacy

How Black communities turned the map into a tool for justice.

How to fund real change in your community.

Tools for Writing and For Getting Published

Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author by Lucinda Halpern.

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

Tools for Public Health

The CDC hasn’t nixed its 5-day COVID isolation rule—yet. Here’s why it might.

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

March 8-12:?SXSW Health and MedTech Track 2024?(Austin, TX)

March 11-15:?2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference?(Orlando, FL)

March 11-12:?Fierce BD&L Summit for Life Sciences?(San Francisco, CA)

March 12-15:?Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) Executive Conference?(Amelia Island, FL)

March 12-14:?AHIP?2024 Medicare, Medicaid, Duals & Commercial Markets Forum?(Baltimore, MD)

March 18-20:?Fierce?Trial Master File Summit?(Savannah, GA)

March 21:?STAT 2024 Breakthrough Summit East?(NYC & virtual)

March 25-28:?American College of Healthcare Executives Congress on Healthcare Leadership?(Chicago, IL)

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.

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

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

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