Tools for Change – March 2025

Tools for Being Smarter

Your brain doesn’t work the way you think.

Why critical thinking matters now more than ever.

A YouTuber I follow with eager anticipation is?Cleo Abrams, who creates a science explainer about once a month, called?Huge If True.?

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast, we have Daniel Kraft, MD, on Predicting the Future of Technology and Healthcare - and Helping to Create It. What if there was a real-world device that worked like the diagnostic Tricorder we imagined watching Star Trek? How about AI-infused antiviral discoveries and laboratory-level diagnostic tools accessible via your smartphone? These ideas and technologies, and many more, are paving the way to a more democratized, connected and data-driven future of medicine, and personalized care. And this is the world where Dr. Daniel Kraft thrives.

Daniel is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist with more than 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research, and innovation. He is Founder and Chair for?NextMed.Health, a program which explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential to reshape the future of health and biomedicine, and he is the founder of?Digital.Health?(a platform?to explore, find and leverage healthcare technologies). ? Daniel sees great personalization in terms of taking agency of one’s own health. Be sure to tune in!

On a related note, NextMed.Health - Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, March 30-April 2, 2025. Join my guest (see above), Founder & Chair, Dr. Daniel Kraft, on the future of health and medicine. Blend this with new mindsets, community, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and you have NextMed Health — a one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary community that aims to expedite the advent of a human-centric, technology-enhanced Health Age. This is not your typical conference. I’m an alum (Class or 2016) and highly recommend it! - CES

Tools for Productivity ?

A collection of one-off actions that improve your life continuously, however marginally.

See how any two people in the world can be?connected?(with photos).

Set off as many?fireworks?as you can click.

Is multitasking sabotaging productivity and health?

These are 3 root causes of procrastination and how to address them.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Why anti-goals are just as important as goals.

Doing real things is good for the soul.

The need for peak experiences in a superficial world.

How to like everything more.

50 things I know.

Tools for Your Career

How to adapt the Japanese approach to a happy life in your career.

This is how you manage passive-aggressive behavior at work.

Tools Just for Fun

A list of?predictions made in 1925 about 2025.

This is super cool - Wikenigma, an encyclopedia of known unknowns. What we know we don't know. A startlingly long list of unanswered questions, uncertainties, and blank areas in our collective knowledge.

If you need a smile?today.

Enjoy this, it’s awesome.

Maybe the strangest book I’ve ever seen is the?Secret Museum of Mankind. There’s no text in the book except for short unreliable captions that are dated and full of prejudices of that time. I prefer the good digital version by Ian Macky, with added index and image grid, and is free?here.

Tools for Longevity & Healthspan

Does V02 Max actually matter for longevity?

Midlife wasn’t always a crisis.

Being in shape is better for longevity than being thin.

Tools for Fitness and Performance

How to do a run streak - tips from a run coach.

Your lifting schedule is killing your marathon - how to schedule lifts like an elite.

The 4 best stretches for your hip abductors - according to a personal trainer.

A 10-week study in?Military Medicine?found that?rucking significantly improves endurance, muscle strength, and bone density - and the benefits applied to both men and women.?

Tools for Leadership

How leadership styles will change in 2025.

Leading with purpose - what employees truly value.

The most unexpected thing that will make you a great leader.

How power changes leaders.

3 things leaders should do to increase trust.

Tools for Mental Health ?

Why small acts of care matter now, more than ever.

Tools for Relationships

This article?dives into the profound benefits of human connection—boosting mood, reducing stress, and even extending your lifespan.?

A guide to being a lifeline for someone in need.

Strong relationships don’t just combat loneliness; they enhance our mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

How successful couples resolve conflict.

Tools for Parents

How we can improve maternal healthcare - before, during and after pregnancy?

This simple test can help kids hear better.

Tools for Founders

How the CPA shortage is rippling through the startup world.

Women’s health startups see risks and rewards in a second trump term,

3 easy ways to build a personal brand as an entrepreneur.

3 things you need to know about employee stock options.

Can I ask employees to stay late during busy times?

Tools for Creativity

What comes after Design Thinking?

How to foster innovation in your work.

The magic of a creative career.

Here’s a simple web tool?that creates direct search links to 11 major institutional collections on a single page. Enter a search term like "sailing ships" and get one-click access to results from places like the Smithsonian, Met Museum, Library of Congress and more.

Tools for Wealth Management

Millennials are plagued by ‘phantom wealth’ - why the generation doesn’t feel rich despite their net worth quadrupling.

Tools for Investing

Codie Sanchez on your blueprint to financial freedom.

What you don’t know could sting your portfolio - by Jason Zweig.

Please enjoy my pal Guy Spier’s interview “Think smarter, not harder with Howard Marks.”

What you should do about the stock market’s giant problem - by Jason Zweig.

Tools for AI

See my “AI Twin” in action, and here’s where “I’m” available for consultation 24/7. Welcome to the future!

DeepSeek FAQ - by Ben Thompson.

4?browser-boosting ChatGPT Chrome extensions.

Here’s the real reason AI companies are slimming down their models

The cognitive cost of AI.

Anthropic just released a major new feature to make your AI smarter.

Tools for Your Practice ?

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

Tools from TED

How to fund real change in your community.

Why you should make useless things.

The awesome potential of many metaverses.

Why you should get paid for your data.

Tools for Life Hacking

33 life tips, Japanese style.

Tools for Being Ethical

The University of Maryland's School of Public Policy reveals?a significant decline in volunteering and charitable giving, understanding these influences can help us reignite the spirit of generosity in our communities.

"How to see the humanity in anyone" by replacing certainty about what we think we know about other people with curiosity about what we don’t yet know.

Tools for Sustainability

Nuclear fusion could be the future of clean energy if it can overcome these hurdles.

Tools for Inclusion

4 interventions to advance women leaders.

Can curiosity heal division?

Companies are avoiding the ‘DEI’ acronym - even if they’re not pulling back on diversity initiatives.

This is how DEI will change in 2025.

3 ways we can redesign cities for equity and inclusion.

Tools for Writing and For Getting Published

You just have to be able to notice when you are boring yourself - 3 tips for self-editing.

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

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

50 years of travel tips.

A complete guide to carry-on luggage restrictions.

The best travel advice forums.

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.

If you love an itinerary, try this?travel-planning app.?

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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Tools for Humanitarian Intervention and Nonprofits

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 Inspiration

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.” - Jack Kerouac

“Kindness is free.” - Dennis Hong

“You can’t change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

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, New York Times, Recomendo, We Study Markets, The Six Minute Mile, Oaktree Capital, Gust, Matter, NgoHacks, OnnIt, 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. This newsletter is about my giving back. All that I share herein is from my heart and head, and is what I would like to have someone tell me about. I hope you find it of use.

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Chris

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