I curate articles from around the web that present an interesting perspective or helpful information at the intersection of behavior design, technology, and wellbeing. Each of these articles were featured in my June 2022 newsletter. I send out an update twice a month along with some notes on my latest work. Sign up for my newsletter here.
Hi friends,
I'm finally back in Austin after some coast-to-coast travel which included a weekend in Long Beach for some brainstorming and celebration.
The weekend began with an Alumni Mentor retreat for the productivity program Building A Second Brain. I produce and facilitate sessions to support course material and incorporate habit design and flow state design into the program as well as help train new mentors.
Best of all, I get to collaborate with a wicked-smart group of fellow mentors. After almost three years of working together online, we finally all met IRL. You may have experienced this online to offline transition yourself. After we adjusted to everyone's real life height, working together online quickly translated into productive, innovative, and fun offline collaboration.
To cap off the weekend, we celebrated the launch of the Building A Second Brain book by Tiago Forte. I met Tiago back in San Francisco when we would bump into each other at meetup after meetup before finally becoming friends after it was obvious we had so many overlapping interests. Soon after, he started his fledging program, which years later has now helped 5,000+ students organize their digital life & unlock their creative potential.
The book is now a Wall Street Journal Bestseller after its first week on sale. If you're struggling with information overload, reading this book will be a like the sun coming out after a storm. Check it out here.
I was a senior executive at WeWork before it imploded. Here’s the one behavior that could have saved the company
Did you watch WeCrash? It’s the Apple TV mini-series about the meteoric rise and sad reality of those ubiquitous WeWork offices. WeWork is one of those over-invested, pre-pandemic “unicorn” companies that positioned itself as an inspiring culture of community. At least, that’s what it seemed when I was at lunch with Melissa Daimler, the author of a new book, ReCulturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success.
At that point, she was considering if she should take a senior vice president position at WeWork. She did, and soon came to learn about employees' "disappointment in the gap between the values that had attracted them and what they saw from their leaders daily." This article is a great insider's view and a fantastic insight into the importance of building a company where purpose, strategy, and culture are tightly connected.
America needs sleep
"Three factors determine 80%+ of our longevity — diet, exercise and sleep. Of those, sleep is by far the easiest to get right." This article is a short overview to getting better sleep. The bottom line, we're better parents, friends, neighbors and colleagues when we get enough sleep.