📝 Career Advice from Noah Kagan, Reversing Aging & The Founder Role

Sup friends 👋🏼,

Had a week of gaining new perspectives by attending a talk by Mehdi Hasan - it was a full circle moment for me, given I’ve been following him for 10+ years (way back during my student days - I always thought he was a bit of a legend).

Let’s get to it 🙂 

/1 Brutally honest career advice (Noah Kagan)

I’ve followed Noah Kagan for years.

He got fired from Facebook in the early days, but has done pretty well since then - he’s built a $100m+ empire with AppSumo, a marketplace for great deals for entrepreneurs.

I resonated with some recent career advice he’s written - some of the highlights:

1. It’s OK to feel lost (focus on taking daily action instead)

2. Take more swings

3. Mentors are overrated

4. Practice positive self-talk

5. Read more biographies

These are quick insights, worth the read!

2/ Tips to Reverse Aging

I’ve recently been trying to learn more about longevity research - this thread neatly summarizes some of the key learnings in the space:

• Let your body eat itself (through autophagy)

• Keep your cells healthy (via exercise)

• Cold therapy

• Supplement with Vitamin D3

/3 The Type of Person We Want To Be

Every action we take is a decision that either helps us become someone we want to be, or it hinders us from our ideal self.

It’s easy to make decisions in the moment, and assume they won’t affect us in the long-term.

The way we become who we want to be, is through the actions we take each day.

/4 The Role of a Founder

There’s always a million things a Founder can do.

Most entrepreneurs have a relentless focus on a few critical activities to be successful.

The below traits are consistent with what I’ve seen the most successful people have in common.

In our information-heavy world, don’t underestimate the power of focus.

/5 The History of Technology

Loved this thread on how we’ve evolved as a society - some crazy learnings such as:

• 1m years ago -Humans started to use fire as a tool

• 1000 BC - Early accountants in Asia created the abacus

• 900 - The Chinese first used gunpowder in war

• 1609 - Galileo invented the telescope

• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone

• 1992 - Apple introduces the first Personal Digital Assistant, Vodafone sends the first text message

• 2007 - Apple introduces the iPhone, Amazon introduces the Kindle

• 2020 - Zoom is downloaded a record 2.13m times in a single day

Fascinating to see the exponential speed of tech development - we also need to be taught about the interconnected nature of events and how past events impact the growth & socio-economic development we see today.

Would highly recommend checking this thread out:

That’s a wrap - let me know your favourite link 🙂 

Till next week,

Fahim ✌️