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19: Notes To Self
Norway, Read Something Wonderful, Internet Early Days, Rewarding Work, Intuition
Luke Clancy
December 22, 2023
Yo!
I’m figuring out my post-grad plans by chatting with people who are living dynamic professional lives around tech/startups/sales/CoS. Lmk if you know anyone I would hit it offf with!
Here is your weekly dose of 5 things I’m pondering and exploring. Click on each link to dive further on that topic.
1. Norway Is Beautiful
It wouldn’t be so bad to rent a month-long Airbnb with friends here, ya know?
Most of the best writing was not created in the last year. Yet most of what we’re served is only from the past 24 hours.
So stupid!
This website helps fight against that. You can scroll to find a goldmine of timeless internet articles curated by people like Patrick Collison, Tamara Winter, Adam Grant, & Molly Mielke.
Highly recommend.
The internet revolution is still just beginning. Here’s why:
For every $100 dollars of profit earnt by businesses across the world, internet companies account for between $5 and $7 only.
If you look at the market value of internet businesses, while higher than their share of global profits, they’re still only a fraction of the value of all businesses globally – around 10% to be more precise.
Stripe, a payments company for online businesses, has an explicit aim to increase the GDP of the internet. They say, “despite internet businesses growing faster than the rest of the economy, only about 3 percent of global commerce happens online today”.
For the first time, we have ubiquitous high-speed connectivity on mobile devices. We have cloud infrastructure that allows most pieces of global GDP to become part of the mobile internet. And the past year has made it clear that borders aren’t boundaries for businesses. Talent is globally, not locally, discoverable now.
When you put that all together, we can go from a 10% penetration rate to 50-70% over the next 20 to 30 years
I’m making my investment & career bets accordingly.
4. A Formula For Rewarding Work (me)
Rewarding Work = Creativity + Impact + Control
Am I missing anything?
Incredible podcast. My notes:
We undervalue intuition, which is really just knowledge that was so valuable that it was basically embedded into our genes.
Intuition starts small. You have to flex it and work it out so you can build up to bigger life decisions.
The big life decisions like “where you want to put yourself?” “how do you want to spend your time?” and “what do you want to be doing?” should be largely consulted with our intuition.
If you only followed some rational objective set of heuristics that decide what you should do, you’d lose the uniqueness of the self. That’s the whole wisdom embedded in your intuition — understanding you and what you’re uniquely gifted at and capable of. Rationality can’t replace that. It’s not customized to you the way your intuition is.
Everyone’s most epic life story seems to trace back to a decision that in the moment made no rational sense, but seemed right in the moment.
That which is most personal is most universal. Understand yourself to understand the world and those around you.
To hear your intuition and to follow you intuition, you need to be open to something that doesn’t “make sense” with your current worldview. You also have to be vulnerable and brave enough to take action on it.
Giving and receiving love is the best part of the human condition. To do that, you need to be open and vulnerable (not driven by fear and pain).
That subtle humming-level of anxiety you feel in your day-to-day life is a product of unexamined aspects of your life. A clear mind is a good life. And a clear mind is a product of examining yourself and your psychological blocks. That’s what keeps you from living with full clarity.
Thanks for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday! If you liked this edition, send it over to a friend who would like it too 🤝
Cheers,
Luke
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