Hot Take04:00
There's palatable hustle and unpalatable hustle at meetups
“there's a level of hustle that's like um palatable and then there's a level of hustle that goes a little bit unpalatable”
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20 June 2024
How to Land your Dream Job - Chats with my Team ( @KaelynGraceApple )
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Insights & moments
The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
Hot Take· 3
Hot Take22:30
Last-minute crunch works in short bursts, not as a 24/7 environment
“dissertation deadline the same weekend that we were launching and so I was up with the team until you know 11: and then I was…”
“I think it it needs to be in short bursts like I think if that's the environment 247 that it's a bit of a problem”
Hot Take28:00
Productivity content has a neurodiversity accessibility gap
“there is a need within the productivity space to consider neurodiversity”
“there are many productivity creators and other types of productivity content that I think goes so so far in the other direction of you know…”
Explainer· 2
Explainer06:00
Proximity is power: increasing your surface area for luck
“one thing that uh Tony Robbins is particularly big on is is the phrase proximity Is Power”
“you're just sort of generally doing things that increase your surface area for something lucky to happen”
Explainer29:00
Individual, community, tools — and the missing fourth option
“so you've got the individual so individual buys book implements tools or implements strategies then we have community”
“but I'm curious if there's a creative addition to that and I don't exactly know what that is yet”
Story· 3
Story10:00
Almost everyone Ali has hired had a public display of their work
“her podcast has like five subscribers but that wasn't that's not what was meaningful what was meaningful was the fact that she was doing the…”
“so there's just so much value in being public about sharing your work which is the whole Austin Cleon show your work shtick as well”
Story11:00
Why she studied in the lounge instead of the library
“I made sure that I was always sitting in the like public Lounge where all the professors would come and get coffee”
“it's thinking about how it is that you can kind of create what is considered like a third space”
Story12:30
Five weeks in: from isolated PhD YouTuber to a collaborative team
“that's one thing that I I was really missing being a PhD student and a YouTuber I just felt really isolated in the work that…”
Q&A· 2
Q&A17:30
Why she went from entrepreneur back to employee
“there's this constant kind of anxiety of oh well what if it what if it ever goes away”
“I wanted the team I wanted to feel like I was immersed in something that was bigger than me”
Q&A24:00
The business's biggest weakness: no cohesive five-year vision
“but I would say having a more cohesive vision for the five years from now is something that I think is a bit missing”
“thinking about how it is to build something that could be sold or building something that has its own identity it gives us a clearer…”
Takeaway· 2
Takeaway19:30
Knowing you're a systems person, not just an ideas person
“I actually think I'm more of a systems person I think the the granular is actually what I enjoy”
“the one task that I enjoyed the most was data entry which nobody relates to everybody hates data entry”
Takeaway26:30
A culture-first foundation is what pays dividends later
“this business started with a foundation of trying to make sure that that company culture comes first and I think that that will pay dividends”