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Tuesday Dispatch: Issue #55

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Tuesday Dispatch: Issue #55

The Owl and The Beetle

Luca Sartoni
Oct 11, 2022
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Tuesday Dispatch: Issue #55

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This week we learn about making four great decisions per year, the role of careers in our lives, and how to change our lives in one year. As well as the true size of countries and ten google apps to check out.

3 Droplets of Leadership

Four Great Decisions Per Year

You only need to make four great decisions per year. When you reflect on the last few years of your life, how much has been determined by a few great decisions?

Check out this great article.

Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life

Career advice as a genre is almost fatally flawed.

The most common counsel is almost always too personal to be broadly applicable.

Work is too big a thing not to take seriously. But it is too small a thing to take too seriously. Your work is one-sixth of your waking existence. Your career is not your life. Behave accordingly.

And check out this great article!

How to Change Your Life in One Year

Step 1: Establish the Desire

Step 2: Plan

Step 3: Execute

Step 4: Track & Adjust

Check out this article.

2 Grains of Technology

The True Size Of Countries

It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat paper. Cartographers use a "projection" to morph the globe into a 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator projection.

Every map projection introduces distortion, and each has its problems. One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map is that it exaggerates the size of countries nearer the poles (US, Russia, Europe) while downplaying the size of those near the equator (the African Continent). On the Mercator projection, Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, Greenland is 0.8 million sq. miles, and Africa is 11.6 million sq. miles, nearly 14 and a half times larger.

This app was created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice. It was inspired by an episode of The West Wing and an infographic by Kai Krause entitled "The True Size of Africa"

Check out this awesome app!

Ten Google Apps to check out

Do you know Google Socratic? And Google Primer? How about Jamboard?

Check out this Twitter thread to learn more about the Google Apps you might not know!

1 Atom of Reflection

“If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.” - Jeff Bezos

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