Veterans Day Edition of Tech Trends!

Tech Trends is a new, daily report, designed to help you discover and capitalize on the tech trends that matter.

This Veterans Day we wanted to give a shout out to every single veteran.

Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. Also, a special thanks to all the veterans and military family members on The Mission team: Lacey Peace, Matt Helbig, Ian Faison, and Chad Grills.

If you’re looking for a good veteran’s day read, check out Dear Veterans, Here is Your Next Mission

This edition of tech trends is laser focused on four things that veterans are well suited for: Leadership & Culture, and Venture Capital & Investing.

We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Monday.

Leadership & Culture

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If you can control your mind you can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to you. –Buddha

In that spirit, my good friend Ellen Petry Leanse (a veteran of Apple, Facebook, Google, and mother of three children!) has a new book out called The Happiness Hack.

It’s a science and buddhist backed approach to happiness. Here’s what some other smart people (and one contributor to The Mission) is saying about it:

The Happiness Hack is a user’s manual for the brain. It makes neuroscience understandable, relevant, and practical, providing a friendly, actionable guide to putting your brain to work for you. — Nir Eyal

In today’s stressful, complex world, who among us wouldn’t benefit from a happiness boost? Ellen Leanse breaks down the process of achieving happiness with understandable and useful examples that merge brain science and well-researched wisdom, in this approachable, fascinating, helpful book. A must read! — Lynda Weinman

Venture Capital & Investing

We can’t help but noodle on the stats below:

“Each year, venture capital investments into startups account for .2% of US GDP. That minuscule yearly investment fuels 21% of our national GDP, or $3.57 trillion. The 12 largest technology companies in the US are now responsible for over $2 trillion in yearly revenues. They were all venture capital backed.” –Link

When VCs are brave enough to make bold bets, we get massive wealth. So can we please stop burning money on war and bridges to nowhere? #FridayRantComplete

Toasty Trends:

Okay, I lied. I can’t go without letting Toasty do his Toasty Trends. He says TBT is overrated, and it’s all about FBF. This is one of his favorite FBF pictures of him with his ball.

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