THIS WEEK: 5 Things I Think You'll Love

Happy weekend! I hope you have had a great week. As always, if you are looking for a podcast to inspire you, a quote to embolden you, an interview to inform you, a film to empower you or a book to educate you, please read on...

PODCAST

New year - new guests! I am thrilled to kick off 2022 with some incredible guests on the podcast. I will be talking to a founder who is reimagining education (and happened to co-found a school with Elon Musk!), an artist who explains how NFTs have changed his life and a founder who is trying to make tech accessible to all.

You can listen to the NEW trailer here or wherever it is you listen to podcasts.

QUOTE

"Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested."

Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code.

INTERVIEW

"The process is a million mini discoveries, one after the other. It is the essence of creativity."

This is a great interview with DeepMind’s David Silver on games, competition, creativity and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters. David leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar.

Read the interview here.

BOOK

I am a big fan of Julia Galef - founder, author and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast so I was excited to learn of her book - The Scout Mindset which teaches you how to see things as they are, not as you wish them to be.

As Ezra Klein says, “Most books tell you what to think. This is something rarer, and more valuable: A book about how to think, and how to learn, without the fear or favor that so often holds us back from inching closer to the truth. The beauty of?The Scout Mindset ?demonstration is it is, itself, an example of the ethos it teaches. The delight it takes in questioning its own premises, and understanding the alternative arguments, will make you want to be a scout, too.”

Buy the book here.

FILM

Generation Startup

This documentary followed six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it's an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup including the many trials and tribulations one faces along the way.

Watch the trailer here.

Watch the full documentary here.

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Finally, thank you once again to all of you who read this newsletter and listen to?the podcast . I truly appreciate each and every one of you - I could not do this without you.

Have a lovely weekend and see you on the other side.

Danielle