Tools for Change – May 2022

Give People a Reason to Find You Interesting

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

May’s guest on my podcast is Michael Clinton on Achieving Your Dreams by Reimagining Your Life. As disruption impacts many industries, mid-career professionals must navigate change and consider its future impact. Likewise, the post-career population faces transformation, and needs to prepare financially, logistically, or emotionally for the next phase of their lives. Michael urges us to view this transition through a progressive lens: don’t retire, but rather rewire or re-fire toward a happier, more productive next chapter. And end self-imposed ageism; focus instead on self-driven growth-ism – to fulfill dreams, and plan new experiences, travel, relationships, and more.

Michael’s mission is to help others shape a second half of life full of joy, purpose, learning, and fulfillment. Packed with practical tips and insightful research, his new book ROAR into the second half of your life (before it's too late) and our conversation offer ways to optimize our lives and realize our most important goals. Michael is a testament to this process, applying it himself to pursue a diverse and richly layered life. Rising from working class roots to a successful career in magazine publishing, he also enjoys other “lives” as a photographer, pilot, philanthropist, marathon runner, and winemaker.?

Be sure to tune in on your favorite platform, or if you’re not into podcasts, read all about it on my LinkedIn Influencer post.

Well Said

How People Think - Nearly eight billion people are alive today. Each has a story, few have a microphone. Each has seen something different and thought something unique. Most know something you can’t fathom, and you have experienced stuff they wouldn’t believe.

"You should, in science, believe logic and arguments, carefully drawn, and not authorities." -?Richard Feynman

Tools for Productivity

?9 Signs Your Social Media Accounts Have Been Hacked ?

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

The Ultimate Guide To Intentional Living - Intentional living is about waking up to a life that energizes you in every possible way. This guide is a must-read if you're craving more out of your life in 2022 and beyond. It'll help you define your core values, let go of what is no longer helping you progress, and design a more intentional schedule.?Read more.

Key Takeaways from the book?Atomic Habits

The surprising thing about expectations - by Seth Godin

Change Your Future - Most people believe you can't change the past, but I've realized that the choices you make in the future adjust your context and alter your perceptions of what has already happened. One of the best exercises is to reflect on all of the things you wanted, but?feel?grateful in hindsight that you DIDN'T get. How will you change your future to rewrite your past? Read more.

Greener lifestyles linked to greater happiness in both rich and poor countries - The findings suggest that there’s a consistent relationship between environmentally friendly action and personal wellbeing. It spans across different parts of the world and holds true for a range of personal circumstances and outlooks. Just as a low-carbon diet tends also to be healthier, and cycling and walking gets us exercising as well as cutting emissions.

Tools for Fitness and Performance

Cardio Before Weight Lifting May Help Boost Muscle - Want to build muscle? Consider starting your workouts with cardio. A new study has found that going for a run or riding an exercise bike can boost the effects of subsequent weight lifting. ?

Tools for Investing

Richer, Wiser, Happier Podcast: How To Win The Investing Game with Joel Greenblatt and more from my dear friend William Green, his book, Richer, Wiser, Happier is a?runaway success. He now has a?TEDx talk?on the topic which you can watch?here.

How Should Kids Learn to Invest? - by Jason Zweig

The Investor’s Podcast: TIP438: Berkshire Hathaway Masterclass w/ Chris Bloomstran, and related -?Semper Augustus Investments Group: 2021 Annual Letter

Warren Buffett’s Protégé Is Building a Mini Berkshire. (Kanbrick’s year-end letter is also available.)

Save Like a Pessimist, Invest Like an Optimist? - Save like a pessimist means you acknowledge the cold statistics of how common bad news is. It’s common at the global, national, local, business, and personal level. Save heavily, knowing with certainty that you’ll need a cushion to deal with the next banana peel.

Reflections on the Ten Attributes of Great Investors?- After 30 years on Wall Street, Michael Mauboussin wrote this unsurprisingly excellent piece on the common characteristics shared by great investors. His list of influential books on page 17 is worth a look, too. Pair with: Colossus Weekly’s conversation with?Michael?on active asset management.

The Devil’s Card Game?- A useful thought experiment that highlights the importance of probabilistic thinking and bet sizing to counter the market’s tendency for surprises. Pair with: Colossus Weekly’s discussion with?Howard Marks?on embracing the psychology of investing.

Here’s a great and updated list of Q1 2022 investor letters.

Tools for Leadership

Sources of Enduring Business Success - by John Huber

9 Tips for Delivering Feedback More Effectively - One simple way to make your feedback more effective is to explain why you’re giving it. Don’t just tell people?what?needs to change—tell them?why?it matters. One study found that doing so can make your input 40% more impactful.

Tools for Founders

Hire People Who Give a S**t?- Learn what to screen for while hiring and the simple line of questioning that can ascertain prospective employees’ culture fit and level of commitment.

This is?what new graduates are looking for?from employers in the age of the Great Resignation.

Business travel is set to pick up this year.?Here’s what to expect.

Spoiler: Most companies don't fail because?they run out of money.

Great advice in this labor market:?leave the door open?for employees to return to your organization.

Future of Therapy?and Medicine

IRL versus URL - There is a growing disconnect between patients and physicians when it comes to telehealth. While both sides embraced telehealth at the onset of the pandemic, this sentiment has changed—physicians may now prefer a return to prepandemic IRL care. Our most recent McKinsey Physician Survey found that patients and physicians have starkly different opinions around convenience, experience, and future outlook.

Can Fermented Foods Boost Mental Health? - Commentary

Addressing the unprecedented behavioral-health challenges facing Generation Z - A series of consumer surveys and interviews conducted by McKinsey finds Gen Zers reporting the least positive life outlook, including lower levels of emotional and social well-being than older generations.

Telehealth's Role in Meeting Mental Health Needs During the Pandemic

How Health IT Can Boost Collaborative Care

Ohio State Football Player Retires From Game, Citing Mental Health Concerns

New Budget Proposal Includes Funding to Bolster Behavioral Healthcare

Webinar: How Technology Can Support Your Journey Towards Integrated Care

Overcoming stigma: Three strategies toward better mental health in the workplace -Employees are worried about their mental health as they return to the workplace after the COVID-19 pandemic. Stigma can exacerbate their concerns, but employers can thwart its impact.

How to Stay Optimistic During a Stressful News Cycle - Challenging news cycles can strain your mental health and undermine your performance at work. One helpful strategy is to limit news reading to intentional times and not allow news-related push notifications to pop up throughout the day.

The 7 Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age - Humans are obsessed with pursuing short-term happiness, yet few ask the question, “What could I do today that would make me happier in the future?” For example, forming and nurturing strong, stable friendships takes time, but pays major dividends later in life.

Tools for Health and Wellness

Alcohol - “Among adults younger than 65, alcohol-related deaths actually outnumbered deaths from Covid-19 in 2020; some 74,408 Americans ages 16 to 64 died of alcohol-related causes, while 74,075 individuals under 65 died of Covid. And the rate of increase for alcohol-related deaths in 2020 — 25 percent — outpaced the rate of increase of deaths from all causes, which was 16.6 percent.”

Does Moderate Drinking Protect Your Heart? - Many of us have heard that drinking alcohol roughly once per day is good for cardiac health. New research is challenging that belief, finding that drinking in any amount can increase your risk of heart disease.

Adding years to life and life to years - At least six years of higher quality life for everyone is within reach.

How to Reduce Information Overload and Digital Overwhelm - Information overload is one of the biggest challenges we face in the modern world. From the moment we wake up until the time we go to bed, we're constantly bombarded with information. In this episode of the Unmistakable Creativity Hour, we'll explore ways to reduce information overload and digital overwhelm so that we can focus on what's most important, and get the most of out the content we consume.

Benefits of Mindfulness Training: Antidote to Physician Burnout - Mindfulness Training Is the Gateway Drug to Other Habits of Wellbeing. Here’s the full blog to learn how?mindfulness?can be?antidote?to burnout in healthcare providers (and others).

Tools for Public Health

The Public Health National Center for Innovations

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

Public Health Foundation

Not the last pandemic: Investing now to reimagine public-health systems - The COVID-19 crisis reminds us how underprepared the world was to detect and respond to emerging infectious diseases. Smart investments of as little as $5 per person per year globally can help ensure far better preparation for future pandemics.

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 a New Gig

Many white-collar workers are commanding compensation increases of?20 percent or more?due to inflation.

Open Philanthropy?recently begun?a large hiring round, and they're currently advertising 7 new roles across different areas and levels of seniority:

· Special Projects

· Program Associate / Senior Program Associate

· Program Officer, Effective Altruism Movement Building, Global Health &?Wellbeing

· Intern in Cause Prioritization

· Business Operations Lead

· Projects and Operations Lead

· Program Operations Associate

Here’s Behavioral Health Tech’s jobs board?to see?all of the current?opportunities?from the leading companies in behavioral health.

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. We want to highlight four new roles in these spaces that were published this week:

1.????Research Analyst?at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research

2.????Senior Researcher?at Giving What We Can

3.????Longtermist Grantmaker?at Longview Philanthropy

4.????Nuclear Security Programme Co-Lead?at Longview Philanthropy

Rethink Priorities?conducts research on questions that help inform policymakers and major foundations about how they can best help people and nonhuman animals in both the present and the long-term future. Rethink is currently hiring for an unusually high number of positions, which cover a wide range of skills, research areas, and levels of seniority:

1.????Research Fellow / Assistant, AI Governance and Strategy

2.????Research Fellow / Assistant, General Longtermism

3.????Director / Associate, Special Projects

4.????Researcher, Operations and Organizational Design

5.????Research Assistant, Executive Team

6.????Research Assistant, Global Health and Development

7.????Researcher, Animal Welfare

8.????Research Assistant, Animal Welfare

9.????Operations Associate

10.?Finance Coordinator

11.?Research Recruiting Coordinator

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.

Partnerships Associate?to join Right To Be (a global, people-powered movement to end harassment).?Full Time Remote.

Public Health Manager?to join Carnival Cruise Line?in?Miami, FL.?

News Assistant?to join?The New York Times's Audio Audience team. This is an entry-level position based in NY with opportunity for growth.?

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 for Climbing

If you know me, then you know I like to climb stuff, and you may too, so please do dive into the latest installments from?the Legacy Series, including films with?Arlene Blum?and?Jim McCarthy?and podcasts with?Yvon Chouinard,?Irene Beardsley, and?Steve House.

A passion project of AAC Past President Jim McCarthy and Tom Hornbein—themselves mountaineering legends by any standard—the American Alpine Club’s Legacy Series?pays tribute to the visionary climbers who made the sport what it is today and stands as a commitment to securing their legacies.

Tools to Travel the World

Grosvenor Teacher Fellowships From National Geographic

National Geographic professional development grants?

Spotlight on Turkey??

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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Tools for Better Understanding Science

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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: Ron Friedman, PhD, Inc., Farnum Street’s Brain Food, McKinsey & Co., Medpage, MedScape, Joe Koster from Value Investing World, FirstRound, Ramit Sethi, Forbes InnovationRx, The Knowledge Project - organized by theme, 80,000 Hours, The Collaborative Fund, Colossus, Sonny Patel, Unmistakable Media, Top Tier - 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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