Bitso reaches 1 million users
New senior jobs, why job interviews don’t work, and lessons from Y-Combinator after 15 years of investment.
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Bitso reaches 1 million users.
The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time.
Why Job Interviews don’t work.
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Cryptocurrency startup Bitso officially has over 1 million users
Congratulations to our friends at Bitso for reaching 1 million users! We’re looking forward to the next 10 million… to the moon!
In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both.
Our struggle is not an emotional concern. We are not burned out. We are being crushed by an economy that has bafflingly declared working parents inessential.
The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time
Recent studies are showing that taking time for silence restores the nervous system, helps sustain energy, and conditions our minds to be more adaptive and responsive to the complex environments in which so many of us now live, work, and lead.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains Why Society Is So Screwed-Up
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
In April of 1995, McArthur Wheeler covered his face in lemon juice and robbed two Pittsburgh area banks. He reasoned that the lemon juice would make his face invisible to security cameras, in the same way, that lemon juice is used as invisible ink. He even claimed to have successfully tested the idea with his own Polaroid camera before the robberies. Of course, this was nonsense and he was picked up by police soon after the banks’ security footage was shown on the nightly news. “But I wore the juice,” he said, confused when officers showed up at his house.
Expectativa vs realidad
Mauricio Devars, aprendedor de Collective Academy, nos habla sobre un sencilla fórmula de felicidad. Cuando la realidad supera tus expectativas, eres feliz. Pero si tu realidad no se ajusta a lo que esperabas de ella, estarás triste.
7 Strategies for Promoting Collaboration in a Crisis
Crises like the Covid-19 pandemic highlight the importance of effective collaboration for long-term commercial success. Particularly in a crisis, organizations need to pull together experts with unique, cross-functional perspectives to solve rapidly changing, complex problems that have long-term implications. The diversity of experience allows a group to see risks and opportunities from different angles so that it can generate new solutions and adapt dynamically to changing situations.
These 5 services will automate all your most tedious tasks
From basic task automation to powerful, multistep workflows, these services can take drudge work off your hands.
The Secret Formula for Go-to-Market
According to Peter Thiel, “Poor distribution — not product — is the number one cause of failure.” Here’s a smart way to think about your distribution strategy.
How Workers Shift from One Industry to Another
Career changes are becoming more popular as the current pandemic forces us to enter digitally-first industries. What does it take to make the leap?
Job Interviews Don’t Work
Last night in our People Analytics class we talked about how job interviews are useless. At the same time, better hiring leads to better work environments, less turnover, and more innovation and productivity. When you understand the limitations and pitfalls of the job interview, you improve your chances of hiring the best possible person for your needs.
Microsoft Teams’ new Together Mode is designed for pandemic-era meetings
Microsoft Teams is also getting a dynamic view, emoji reactions, and lots more.
What 15 Years of Y Combinator Investments Can Teach Us About Startups
There are thousands of smart people who could start companies and don’t, and with a relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place, we can spring on the world a stream of new startups that might otherwise not have existed.
— Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator