March ‘23 Recap

My favorites from March:

Podcasts:

  1. Do This Every Morning to Stop Procrastination, Mel Robbins | Feel Better, Live More with Rangan Chaterjee

    • Short and actionable tips for what you can do to stop procrastinating and become biased towards action.

  2. The Robot Lawyer Resistence | a16z podcast

    • An interview with Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay. How they started, what they do, and how they are leveraging AI for the future.

  3. Dr. Kelly Starrett — The Magic of Movement and Mobility, Training for Range of Motion… and more | Tim Ferris podcast

    • I loved this conversation on different types of physical training.

  4. Tim Legler: the 2022-2023 Season Deep Dive Show | The Old Man & the Three

    • If you’re an NBA fan, this is a must listen before the NBA playoffs.

  5. Cristina Randall, Somos: Empowering Mexicans to take control of their health | Episode 200 Crossing Borders

    • Metabolic health is bad globally, and even worse in Mexico. Cristina talks about her startup Somos and what they are doing to help solve this problem.

Articles:

  1. Startup Decoupling and Reckoning | Elad Gil

    • Deep dive into what’s happening in the startup ecosystem, and what might play out over the next couple of years.

  2. Magma Q4 2022 Investor Letter

    • We made the quarterly investor letter we send to investors public. Read this for some macro insights as well as what this means for VC in Latam.

  3. Three year future org chart exercise | Brad Feld

    • Brad Feld lays out an exercise for startup founders to help them imagine your ideal team in the future as you continue to grow.

  4. How to build a Work With Us page career page to attract top talent

    • This month I wrote about a piece about how startups can tackle the low hanging fruit that stop them from making great hires. This article is a guide for how to nail a Work With Us page and start hiring better talent for your startup.

SVB:

  1. This thread. There are a million articles on SVB. One of my biggest realizations during this whole time has been that most people don’t understand what banks actually do. This thread does a great job at simplifying it.

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