Tools for Change – November 2022

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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

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast

November’s guest on my podcast is Neil Littman on Bringing Science Fiction to Life and Medicine

Neil talked about his time at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and what it was like from both the scientific and business aspects. It was there that he learned that the institutional model of financing and investing could be applied to the retail sector as well. Combining those experiences and what he learned firsthand, lead to his creating the Bioverge platform.

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Neil discussed that the decentralized network he built provides warm referrals to Bioverge with the goal of linking capital for potential investment opportunities. But they also provide value added services beyond just capital that helps founders and portfolio companies that may need support and expertise along the way. Beyond sourcing deal flow, they conduct due diligence on the investment opportunities by leveraging their network of subject matter experts who also have deep domain expertise.

Neil’s work is such a great example of “doing well while doing good” by helping to save lives and change the world.

?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

"Do only what is easy, life becomes hard.?Do what is hard, life becomes easy." – Anonymous

“We’re taught that there are bad people and good people, monsters and angels. And yet the truth of the matter is that monsters and angels live in every single one of us. Monsters are our broken parts. They are our petty fears, our insecurities, the grievances that grow.” - Jacqueline Novogratz

"The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end." - Charlie Munger

Tools for Productivity

Gabriel Wyner: How to Enhance Your Memory (And Never Forget)?- If we can give some emotional context to our learning, we can essentially double our learning speed.

Pomadoro technique - This is a classic time management system designed to increase focus and productivity using work blocks of twenty-five minutes on and five minutes off. The idea is to get you to work with the time you have, rather than fighting time like many of us do.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

50 ways to be ridiculously generous—and feel ridiculously good?by?Alexandra Franzen.?

An Economist’s Rule for Making Tough Life Decisions - When faced with difficult decisions, people have a habit of sticking with the status quo, while avoiding risk and change. According to a recent study, that’s not always the right approach. Research found that people who responded to tough choices by erring on the side of a big change tended to be happier both two and six months later.

The most important lessons from history are the takeaways that are so broad they can apply to other fields, other eras, and other people. That’s where lessons have leverage and are most likely to apply to your own life, from author of one of my favorite books Psychology of Money,?Morgan Housel (who I hope to have on the podcast in Season 6 BTW). Sampler: Life-altering events change our views in life-altering ways; personality traits that push people to the top, also push them over the edge; unsustainable things can sustain for a long time.

Little Rules About Big Things - Comedians are the only good thought leaders because they understand how the world works but they want to make you laugh rather than make themselves feel smart. People learn when they’re surprised. Not when they read the right answer, or are told they’re doing it wrong, but when they experience a gap between expectations and reality.

16 Life-Learnings From 16 Years of the Marginalian?- Maria Popova. I have been a longtime fan of Maria’s and often quote her in our Sunday Breakfast Club (feel free to join us). Be sure to subscribe to Maria’s newsletter, you will not be disappointed. She is a gift.

Tools for Wealth Management

5 Tax Planning Ideas To Consider Before Year-End

Tools for Fitness and Performance

Aerobic Intensity Changes How Exercise Affects Our Minds? - Most of us know that different types of aerobic exercise impact how we feel. Now there are finally studies to prove it.

Here's a fun bodyweight workout?to help you build explosiveness.

Tools for your Career

How to Find a Better Job Faster - Looking for a new job? Don’t simply ask friends and family for help. A recent study found that weaker social connections are often more beneficial than strong relationships. The reason? They’re more likely to lead you to people and opportunities unfamiliar to your inner circle.?

What to Do When Someone Undermines You at Work - by Chuck Wisner | Harvard Business Review, author of The Art of Conscious Conversations

Tools for Investing

When Bad Things Happen to Good Stocks - by Jason Zweig

Three Ways You Can Cash In on Cash - by Jason Zweig (great advice that I’m now doing)

Big Beliefs?- Morgan Housel distils his core principles on business and investing into ten short concepts. Pair with Morgan Housel?on investing.

How to Make Peace With Your Stock Market Losses - by Jason Zweig

No Grand Strategy: The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway

Save Like a Pessimist, Invest Like an Optimist?- Optimism and pessimism can coexist. If you look hard enough, you’ll see them next to each other in virtually every successful company and successful career. They seem like opposites, but they work together to keep everything in balance.

You’re Giving Away Yield and Don’t Even Know It - by Jason Zweig

Tools Just for Fun

How To Get a Motorcycle Racing License – I did this back-in-the-day at Road America and it’s made me a better rider overall.

How many backward somersault burpees can you do in 30 seconds??Celeste Dixon, a fitness enthusiast from South Australia, can do eight. She was just one of the nearly?40,000 Guinness World Records 2023 applicants?who believed their particular passion, talent, or trait should be considered for the new edition, out now. “People from all walks of life continue to be fascinated by extremes, and we’ve received claims from across the planet — indeed, even from space!” said Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday.?Other stars include the man with the biggest rotating puzzle collection, the Shetland pony that can walk on its hind legs,?the 14-year-old who became the youngest person to discover a comet, and more. One special family took a joint approach for their entry — the Hernández-Pérez clan in Gran Canaria, Spain, broke the record for the?highest combined age of 12 living siblings, with 1,058 years and 249 days between them. Do you have a secret special talent??Apply here?to set or break your own record for next year!

Kevin Kelly on “Protopia” (video)

Tools for Leadership

High-Performing Teams Don’t Leave Relationships to Chance Office friendships make us more productive, creative, and collaborative. If you’re a leader, what can you do to spark close connections?

Tools for Founders

This Week in Startups Podcast: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on navigating a downturn, innovating in compensation and more

Tools for AI

Introducing the Intelligent Future?- Greylock general partners Reid Hoffman and Saam Motamedi discuss the latest advancements in AI and highlight the most promising future developments. Pair with this primer on AI, featuring?Alexandr Wang.

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

AI and Big Data

How to evolve artificial intelligence models alongside societal needs - As society becomes more open to and reliant on these tools, it is the responsibility of technology companies, especially those tasked with assisting people’s mental health, to build and maintain artificial intelligence and machine learning models that adapt alongside societal needs.

Tools for Health and Wellness

Too Much Free Time Won’t Make You Happier - How much free time should you strive for? According to one study, the sweet spot is two to five hours per day. Too little free time—or too much—had a negative effect on happiness.

Five Ways You’ll Exercise Smarter in the Future - This is a fun and fascinating read about the ways technology may empower us to exercise in the not-so-distant future. Pants that monitor your posture, jackets that gauge air quality, and shirts that tell you when you’re dehydrated are just a few examples.

Want to Fall Asleep Faster? Try the 4-7-8 Method - Some experts believe a simple breathing exercise can help you fall asleep faster. Breathe in for 4 seconds, hold your breath for 7 seconds, and exhale over a period of 8 seconds. Doing so can help to activate your parasympathetic nervous system, promoting a more restful state.

Careful what your wish for - Most mental upside comes from the thrill of anticipation – actual experiences tend to fall flat, and your mind quickly moves on to anticipating the next event. That’s how dopamine works. If walking on the moon left astronauts underwhelmed, what does it say about our own earthly goals and expectations?

4 Habits That Keep Your Brain at Its Best - Marc Milstein, Ph.D. author of The Age-Proof Brain

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

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.

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?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.

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

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

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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, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, Health Data Management Group, Fitt, Budgets Are Sexy, Behavioral Health Tech, Next Big Idea Club – Heleo, - 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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