How to make sense of uncertainty, learn to draw in six steps and build a six figure company for less then 100$ (Links 10.06.2020)

 

Are you sitting at home, you finished Netflix twice? Need some different entertainment to lift your mood up? All COVID-19 free. Here we go:

Before we start: This Link collection will now be published every 2 months, according to Feedback and the Content I will dig up for you. I felt in times like this, its important to get some distractions …

Articles worth reading

HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF THE CHAOS AND UNCERTAINTY (by Mark Manson

I am thirty-six years old. Despite crippling problems with health care, education, gun violence, immigration, climate change, stagnant wages, income inequality, and racial equality persisting for my entire adult life, I have never once seen my government help with or resolve any of these issues. For as long as I can remember, it has been: tax cuts, war, tax cuts, bailouts, tax cuts, bailouts. I have never seen things get better in this country. Only worse. I have never seen anything substantive from my leaders, Democrat or Republican, that makes me proud of voting for them. I wasn’t alive for the moon landing. I am too young to remember the Berlin Wall falling. I don’t give a flying fuck about Saddam Hussein. My introduction to my nation was 9/11, followed by hearing about friends and classmates being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by graduating into the worst economic collapse in 86 years, followed by thirteen more years of absolutely no fucking solutions.

How to Draw in Six Steps (New York Times)

Binyamin Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, focusing on business and economics. He also doesn’t know how to draw, so we made him try this out as our model.

Six-Figure Businesses Built for Less Than $100: 17 Lessons Learned (Tim Ferriss)

Over the past several years, I’ve been on a quest to study micro-businesses—small operations (typically one person) that make $50,000 a year or more (often a lot more). The quest took me all over the world, at first to a large group of 1,500 “unexpected entrepreneurs” who volunteered to share their stories in detail.

I wanted to hear from all kinds of businesses–both offline and online–to decipher what made them so successful. How did they get started? What helped them grow into significant, reliable sources of income? How can you increase the odds of success?

After much effort, a small team and I narrowed down the case studies to a subset of 70 that I focused on for final analysis. All 70 people had created freedom for themselves: new income and a completely new way of life. There are formulas.

30 Animals That Look Like They’re About To Drop The Hottest Albums Of The Year (boredpanda)

 

Watch this in your quarantine (and guess which one is mine)

What I am reading: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Amazon Link)

Kids need to be outside, especially in times like now you can feel the urgency.  They need to learn how to be independent, get some free spirit. Learn how to go on adventures. How to tap into the innate part of themselves that likes to build, to live off the land, to be one with nature. This is a beautiful book about the value of the outdoors, self-sufficiency, companionship, and how much we take for granted. It has just enough pictures to keep a young kid’s attention (I wouldn't recommend it for under 7s), and it’s filled with action, adventure, lessons, and interesting observations that adults will love, too.

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My Running Companion this month

Shane Parrish speaks with AngelList CEO Naval Ravikant (That guy is a genius) in what has been called the single best podcast episode ever. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on many subjects including reading, happiness, decision making, habits, wealth, and mental models.

Quote of the month

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. – lao Tzu

Tweet of the month

Food on Ubereats $21.48
Delivery Fee $0.99
Tip $3
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Total $98.49 pic.twitter.com/BOGqun0nuG

— Taylor Pate (@taylorlpate) April 27, 2020

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Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations that work together and with local communities in over 90 countries. The organization is committed to mobilizing the power of people against poverty, by finding practical and innovative ways to help people and communities lift themselves out of poverty. It responds to crises, campaigns to raise awareness of poverty, and helps people to thrive.

Always do the first step!

 

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Overwhelmed with things to read? Instead of cancelling your newspaper or magazine subscriptions, donate them to a local school for a few months (like this) till you’re ready to start receiving them again. Or not.

 

 

Which types of content are helping you to keep your mental health in balance? Let me know in the comments!

I'm also feeling particularly grateful to have you reading. Thank you for sharing some of your precious time with me each week.

Stay safe,  y’all

 

– Dan Draper

 

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The day I became a better writer, sold my name and learned nothing (Link)

Click here to Kill for lost German Luggage in the years that answer (Link)

Begin again with 30 Ghost Stories and how to do a charcoal mask for three (nearly six) year old’s (Link)

How to take a Dump in Space, the great Bassette and do we need God to make Sense of life (Link)

How to do a diet, plant 20 million trees and use greediness for your success (Link)

The Fish that ate the Whale, How wolves change rivers and my Waiteroutfit (Link)

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