Greg’s Weekly recap (August 5, 2018)

There is so much high-quality original content tweeted by entrepreneurs, investors, and interesting people. So here’s an experiment:

✨✨ A Twitter weekly recap for those who don’t check Twitter ✨✨

Podcasts / Articles:

25 heuristics to make decisions. My go to is #14 (Focus on collecting feedback to calibrate your ability to make a decision) and #11 (Let other people’s hindsight become your foresight.). Link.

The equation that makes you better at everything. Stress + Rest = Growth. Link

The myth of passive income. Maintenance is the hidden tax. Link.

Jason Calacanis explains how founders can prepare when then market collapses: top off your funding ASAP. Counterintuitively, down markets are great for well-funded companies: more talent at reasonable wages, cheaper marketing costs, less competition, negotiating leverage with vendors. Link.

Guide to build digital products that incorporate behavioral psychology. Link.

This week’s observation:

Confetti is popular in the US but not in the UK. Why? It rains so much in the UK that confetti becomes wet litter on the street. Learning: Each culture has its own form of happiness.