FVS 14: STATUS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIE, DISTRACTIONS, FEMINISM
“Life is the tillage and death is harvest according”
-Walk Whitman
Hi, this is another edition of “For Value Sake”.
A weekly post, it contains a few articles, a book recommendation and a TED talk.
These are the most impressionable resources I consumed during the week, and share them so you can reap some value as I did.
The only goal is to add value.
Cheers :)
HOW TO UPGRADE YOUR ECONOMIC STATUS
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
This article deeply shook me at a primal level.
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20 YEAR OLD ENTREPRENEUR LIE
“Think about career paths as options, not just as absolute paths.”
Age and experience make us all better entrepreneurs.
The average successful entrepreneur in the US started their businesses in their 40s. It takes time to build the expertise and network required to build a big venture. Don’t be in a hurry, be strategic.
Ask yourself: “how can I be better prepared?”
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HOW TO GET MORE WORK DONE IN A WEEK THAN MOST PEOPLE DO IN A MONTH
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“I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
The best way to get ourselves to do the things we need to is to keep reminding ourselves from time to time.
The skill of getting things done can never be overemphasized.
Be reminded!
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TED TALK OF THE WEEK:
HOW BETTER TECH COULD PROTECT US FROM DISTRACTION
I’ve always been largely interested in productivity and it’s relationship with getting things done.
Recently I am faced again and again with the fact that in our super-connected world “Social Media” and instant messaging hurts me more than it helps my ability to get things done.
In the workplace today we are deeply distracted by these new modes of communication.
Tristan makes a case for using design to protect us from adverse effects of hyper-connectedness.
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BOOK OF THE WEEK:
WHO STOLE FEMINISM — CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS
Feminism is a buzzword these days. There’s an army of people waiting to troll you on twitter if you say anything against the concept.
I didn’t quite understand the reason women who advocate this online were always aggressive and sometimes borderline rude often making a case that they need to fight for their freedom from oppression.
I know I want a more egalitarian society, but I don’t think it needs to be a conflict sparking conversation each time.
So I decided to dig into the matter. And I found there were several schools (ideologies) of “feminism”. I’ll note two.
Gender Feminism
The ones who are always angry are gender feminists. Always making every issue into gender and how women are oppressed. And who should be holding the door and what not?
They say that gender is a social construct, Ridiculous!
Equity Feminism
The ones who advocate equity and equal opportunities.
It is “a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology”.
Christina an equity feminist in her book talks about the issues. A must-read for anybody who believes in an egalitarian society.
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That’s it for the week! Thanks for reading!
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