After over a year in the making, Meat Health Academy goes live this week! Enrollment opens on Tuesday, and I'll shoot you a message if you are interested in checking it out. Here's a sneak peak into the program:

 

Something that I know has held me back is a tendency to try and figure out and do everything myself. While there are benefits to this (like immense learning), there are also consequences. For example, with Meat Health Academy I created a 100-page workbook to go along with the program. And I wanted people to have the ability to fill in the workbook on their computers, not having to print it out if they didn't want to. I spent an entire day trying to make just one of the pages editable. Then it hit me. This is not a core competency of mine, nor do I really want or need this to be a core competency, but it is a core competency of someone else. So I went on to UpWork (my favorite freelancer website) and hired a pro. He not only did a way better job on all 100 pages than I did on just 1 page, but he did it all in one day, and at an incredible fair price. There's a saying that I had bought into, "if you want to go fast go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." However, I'm ditching it. If you want to go fast or far, go together. Focus on what you love, on your unique value creation, and bring others along to help fill the gaps with their unique value, skills, and talents. 

 

Since having this (re-) realization that working together, building teams, and collaborating is how to go far and fast (something I'm very interested in as I want to experience as much of this big world as I can in this relatively short life), I'm going to make a conscious effort towards more collaborations in the future. I'm starting with: what shape are you?

 

 

There is one tool I use that is perhaps more powerful than any other for creating my ideal day. The calendar. But I use it in an unconventional way. I think you have to find your own special way but I highly recommend these two articles on scheduling you energy (not your time) and using a template. 

 

 

 

– Shane Parrish

 

 

This week may have marked the start of a domino effect of big banks getting into bitcoin with Morgan Stanley announcing they are going to offer clients access to bitcoin funds. It's not because these banks want to offer this, it's because clients are demanding it, and they know if they don't provide it, clients will go elsewhere. Looking at bitcoin through the lens of game theory is perhaps why Elon Musk concluded "in retrospect, it was inevitable."

 

 

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