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February 28 · Issue #27 · View online
Awesome Humans is about becoming the best you can be in a world of exponential change: Leadership, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Personal Growth, Health, Disruption, and the Future.
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“Awesome Humans” is a weekly curated newsletter highlighting content at the intersection of becoming extraordinary individuals, building extraordinary teams, and the future. Please take a moment to share with your friends if you enjoy our newsletter: Facebook or Twitter! If you were forwarded this email, you can sign up here to receive this newsletter each Sunday and be sure to check your spam folder and whitelist us.
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How Parents And Teachers Can Nurture The 'Quiet Power' Of Introverts
A new book looks inside the minds of introverted kids and teens, with lessons for schools on class participation, groupthink and public speaking.
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Today's Life Lessons
Fantastic list of 21 great life lessons that we should all remember every day!
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The One Thing About Your Spouse’s Personality That Really Affects Your Career
Here is a reason to thank your spouse: Researchers find it predicts income, promotions, and job satisfaction.
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10 Easy Steps That Will Make You a Master Relationship Builder
Here’s how to make the connections that can accelerate your career. (Thanks for finding Chris Z)
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Your Network’s Structure Matters More than Its Size
Knowing lots of people doesn’t make someone an influencer. New research shows that you only need handful of influencers to give the impression that everyone is talking about your brand. Researchers at the University of Southern California recently uncovered the majority illusion, a paradox within social networks that makes some ideas, behaviors, or attributes appear widespread even when they are not. Since we can’t keep an eye on what the entire world is up to, we’re limited to witnessing what our social network says and does. At times, well-connected members within our network can skew our perception of how common an idea or behavior actually is.
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How To Train Your Human: Designing For Healthier Habits
Cues, such as boredom, hunger, an activity, a time or an emotion trigger us to do certain actions or routines. When we complete that routine, we get a physical or an emotional reward. Doing this often enough gets us into a habit-forming loop.
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Building, Nurturing, & Sustaining a Culture of Organizational Trust
Wonderfully written piece on building and sustaining trust within your organization, the steps you can take now to build it, and the mindset required for you to do so. “Yet, over a period of time (depending on how quickly the erosion may occur) we begin the see the wheels of these organizations come off — and it can all begin to point back to the bedrock. This is what I mean specifically when I talk about “organizational debt” and the consequences of allowing accrual to happen for too long.” “Teams use trust as currency. If it is in short supply, then the team is poor. If trust abounds, the members of the team have purchase power with each other to access each other’s gifts, talents, energy, creativity, and love. The development of trust, then, becomes a significant leadership strategy.”
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Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself
A team of programmers has built a self-generating cosmos, and even they don’t know what’s hiding in its vast reaches.
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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make
Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake. The line of reasoning goes, “Services businesses are not scalable and the market won’t reward this revenue so make sure that third-parties do your implementation or clients do it themselves. We only want software revenue.” This is a huge mistake. If you’re an early-stage enterprise startup services revenue is exactly what you need.
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What’s Next in Computing?
If you are at all interested in the future of technology, this is a must read! Chris Dixon breaks down the historical product and financial trends that lead to disruptive innovation differentiating between emerging and growth phases.
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Technology, Social Change, and Future Scenarios
If we are to Think about the Future in a way that helps us thrive in that future, we must excel at connecting dots. I developed the Future Scenarios visual in an attempt to help visualize the dots, as well as the various intersections that amplify the impact of those dots.
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Low-cost "Paper Skin" boasts same sensory functions as the real thing
Multipurpose sensors that are both flexible and wearable could one day be used for everything from monitoring the body’s vital signs to changing the way we interact with computers. Working toward this goal, researchers in Saudi Arabia have used low-cost everyday items that you probably have laying around your house to develop a paper-based sensor that reacts to the same stimuli as human skin, such as pressure, touch and temperature.
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The Next Generation of Boston Dynamics' ATLAS Robot Is Quiet, Robust, and Tether Free
This is absolutely amazing if you have not seen it yet: The latest ATLAS is by far the most advanced humanoid robot in existence.
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Where does swearing get its power – and how should we use it.
What makes swear words so offensive? It’s not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?
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