I spent just about every day in 2016-2018 working, head down, in a 500 square foot apartment room. It got to the point where the days blended together. It wasn’t Monday or Tuesday, or Saturday. It was Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. That was a terrible, and yet quite beautiful, time in my life. The state of the world right now reminds me of that 500 square foot room. In this newsletter I dive into: ✅ Personal brand growth strategy. ✅ Our business pivot. ✅ Meaningful work. ✅ A message to my team. ✅ Clients and friends going out of business. 😢 Don't forget to subscribe! #justQ 🖖🏽🖤 #business #entrepreneurship …see more

You’ve got two choices in life. Choice 1: Step into the stream of someone else’s momentum. Choice 2: Create your own momentum. — Tom Bilyeu #justQ 🖖🏽🖤 …see more

Considerable US economic data beat: At 52.6, June ISM factory index is highest in over a year and well above May's 43.1 and consensus expectation's 49.8. Re internals, very sharp jump in new orders. Less encouraging: jobs metric lagged and, per prior posts, extrapolation is tricky. #economy …see more

How do you know someone used to work at Apple, Google or Facebook? They tell you. Everywhere. Always.

we continue to be active with our fintech investments. this time Railsbank Nigel Verdon and of course my partner L. Michael Meyer, CFA co-leading with Ventura Capital Mo El Husseiny #fintech

For anyone that is NEW to video... There is no such thing as a perfect take! It takes many tries... Thanks, Michael Comella and Chassidy Camp for the birthday present of these outtakes and the many laughs of Chantel Soumis 🌟 - that board was SO loud! Ya'll were so amazing to work with and this little birthday surprise made me so happy! I laugh every time! I'm definitely far from Hollywood And I will stick to my day job 😜 I hope this puts a smile on your face! BUT if it doesn't, here's a joke from my son: Why won't the skeleton go to the party? Because he has no body to go with. You're welcome. Go be productive or share a joke below! #digitalmarketing #videomarketing #positivity …see more

Here's how to remove the metaphorical clutter and make room for what's next in your #career : Get hyper-focused on what you want When you're clear, everything becomes easier. People understand you, what you offer, your value, what differentiates you, how you can help them, and how they can assist you. Having #clarity enables you to align your goals with a plan to achieve them. Say no now, so you can say yes later Embrace the power of no to master intentional decision-making and #timemanagement . Simplify, prioritize, and focus your attention on what matters most. Get rid of unnecessary baggage Release outdated expectations, remove irrelevant experience from your profile, and drop any comparison or envy to create space for something better. Give yourself a pep talk The stories we tell ourselves are the most important words we speak because they play on repeat in our heads. Instead of negative self-talk, give yourself a self-affirming pep talk, so you'll abandon limiting beliefs and adopt a growth-focused mindset. Change your environment Your friends, colleagues, location, habits, and lifestyle impact you far more—for better or worse—than you realize. What once worked for you has probably changed; align yourself with people and things that support your destiny, not your history. …see more

Here's how to make comparison work for—and not against—your career: Reframe your envy into a learning opportunity Instead of feeling jealous of your coworker’s or competitor’s success, study their behaviors to learn what worked and what didn’t, not to replicate their path, but to advise your own. Adopt an abundance mindset It’s possible for you and your peers to do well at the same time; it need not be an either/or situation. Realize that “success” is a fluid, moving target Get clarity on what success looks like for you, and then focus your efforts on achieving it rather than someone else’s idea. Don’t compare your chapter 1 with someone else’s chapter 20 You’re setting yourself up for disappointment when you compare your journey with another’s, particularly when that person is decades ahead of you in their career. Strive for progress, not perfection The leaders you admire have succeeded despite their failures because they used them as opportunities to grow, realizing that progress beats perfection. Track your progress Ultimately, you’re in competition with an older version of yourself, not someone else. Make it a regular habit to track your #progress and celebrate how far you’ve come in growing your career. How do you use #comparison to fuel your #career ? …see more

Everyone is focused on the employee experience. What about the candidate experience? This was always tough. This new reality makes it even tougher. A lot of companies are trying to gain an advantage with ‘goods’ - mainly sending gifts to a candidates’ home. That’s not a bad effort. That makes candidates feel special. It will never replace the human touch. Candidates deal with uncertainty. Waiting for answers, getting feedback - these are their core challenges. It’s great to get a fruit basket or a bottle of wine, but it can’t come at the expense of being there - providing interview feedback, being available for questions, giving answers - reducing uncertainty. All employees were once candidates. Never forget that. #hr #interview #career #people #recruiting …see more

When drawing blood, a robot won’t just assume they know where your vein runs – they actually see it. Its hands never shake, it is never overworked, it won’t get tired – and it frees up valuable nurse time. Nurses would still need to be present to provide empathy and support to the patient. Still, we humans seem to be sort of afraid of them. And this is even the case if they can do a better job than humans – we don’t want them to do so. This is a burden we must overcome as another cultural shift on our route towards digital healthcare. Read more on how robots can draw blood and what it means for the healthcare of the future. #robotics #blooddraw #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #deeplearning #machinelearning …see more

I had an excellent time giving a keynote for Philips in Amsterdam about why healthcare needs a trip to Mars. The C-level healthcare leaders in the audience were interested in how we can bring digital health technologies to the masses. One of the perks of being a keynote speaker is the special passes to places like the Rijksmuseum so I could sneak in to see the Rembrandt collection at lunch time. Next stop: London. #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #speaker #keynote #speakerlife …see more

Bloomberg Economics' indicators measuring how well emerging/frontier economies are recovering from the Covid shock confirm that ... "Asia leads in getting closer to pre-outbreak norms, with some countries in Africa and Eastern Europe also outperforming. Latin America is still struggling to contain the pandemic, with 18 of the bottom 25 in the ranking in Latin America or the Caribbean." #economy #markets #Bloomberg #EM #emergingmarkets #covid #economics …see more

Casual empiricism from our family walk today: More social distancing and a significant rise in mask wearing (from well under 50%). I suspect it’s a reaction to the increase in Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths, together with warnings from some local hospitals about dwindling capacity. Having said this, it seems that a good 20% isn’t wearing masks, or at least not properly. Am most intrigued by those who make the effort of having one but let it hang down from their mouths. …see more

#Dishonesty works…until it doesn’t. Everyone messes up. And when you are dishonest, you are given only one chance and then it’s over. You’re out of the game—at least until you get your act straight and you have to start from scratch with your tail between your legs.

Walmart's strong quarterly earnings (both in absolute terms and relative to consensus expectations) illustrate that while the COVID-19 has shock produced mostly corporate losers, there are winners. Looking forward, only part of this pronounced winners vs losers phenomenon will prove to be mean reverting; and one of the likely outcomes absent government measures is greater firm concentration. #Walmart #economy #markets #competition …see more

From the Financial Times' "Big Read" entitled "Why the coming emerging markets debt crisis will be messy" by Colby Smith and Robin Wigglesworth. https://lnkd.in/eNeUtZj #economy #markets #em #EmergingMarkets #investing #investors Financial Times #FT #bonds #equities #financeandeconomy …see more

The video link to the conversation from ten days ago with Professor Mauro Guillen of the The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania ... on the what of the CoronaVirus, how we got here in the economy and finance, and the what next. https://lnkd.in/ecnbAyD #Wharton University of Pennsylvania - The Lauder Institute #Penn #economy #markets #coronavirus #covid19 #covid …see more

Politics mixed with bureaucracy creates death. Creates delay. Creates debt. Politics mixed with television creates ratings. Creates advertising dollars. Newspaper stories. Water cooler conversation. Twitter memes. Each election has to up the ante for entertainment... https://lnkd.in/ebJ8_jm …see more

It's great when someone writes an article that expresses precisely what you've been thinking the entire time. Means you don't have to write it yourself, also less likely to get you banned on Linkedin, or fired (again?) but adds credibility to what has long been considered a loony fringe view. Apologies for sharing another right leaning media outlet, I've got no idea what the quality left leaning media is up to, but great harm is happening on the watch of Editors and journalists who've long cared about society and fairness and who somehow can't see things differently To be clear, I've NEVER thought Covid has been: - Not a significant danger - A conspiracy It's just been very clear from the data that the cure is far far far worse than the disease, but in ways that are less attributable and happen over a longer horizon. It's been very clear Politicians have worried most about blame and not about lives. It's been very clear the media was addicted to fear based clicks and thought they were also helping. So one giant balls up, one mess of misaligned incentives, pride, loss aversion, human nature's flaws on steroids, not a plan by big pharma, or Bill Gates, or WEF. …see more

If we accept resumes are not a great way to judge or be judged, and believe we need to focus more on values, personalities, own ideas, goals and our personal mission and vision, then what should we use? Videos take far too long to watch and are prone to discrimination. Blogging isn't for everyone. Resumes miss out everything that matters and are likely to remove the most interesting people with width. Be great to create what the future of resumes should be. Around 2004-2008 was the idea everyone would have their own personal website, seems like there is something interesting in that idea. Host what you've done, how you think, what you want to accomplish next, and use this to best present yourself. It's never been easier to make one too. …see more