April 04, 2022

This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋

We send you 3 good articles to highlight this week. Hopefully, it will bring new perspectives and help you develop your career and learning journey.

📚 This Week's Reading List

Why community matters so much — and how to find yours by Allie Volpe (8min)
A community can serve as a social safety net, but finding one and becoming a part of it is different from simply making friends. The goal is to build a network. In the article, there are tips you should follow to find the best community for you.
See: Glasp Community Highlights

Business Forecasts Are Reliably Wrong — Yet Still Valuable by Martin Reeves, Suvasini Ramaswamy, and Annelies O’Dea (5min)
At the beginning of each year, organizations make forecasts about the year ahead.  Forecasts are predictions about what will happen in the future based on information currently available. As such, they are exercises of imagination, which studies have shown are rarely correct in their particulars. Despite being reliably incorrect, savvy leaders can find strategic value from forecasts. How do they do it?
See: Glasp Community Highlights

The 100-Hour Rule: Forgotten Study Shows How You Can Become World-Class In 100 Hours by Michael Simmons (12min)
Someone could become the best at a skill in just 100 sessions — approximately 100 hours. This would seem to challenge the fundamental idea behind the 10,000-Hour Rule — the pattern that it often takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become world-class at something. So, what should we do to achieve it?
See: Glasp Community Highlights

👀 Featured Curators on Glasp

1️⃣ Rudram Piplad
Rudram is learning product management, growth, NFT, and finance. He keeps providing insightful content, so it's nice to learn with him.

2️⃣ Nic Yap
Nic is learning note-taking, learning, self-improvement, and productivity. Her profile page is full of insightful content on these topics, you can explore a lot of interesting articles to read!

3️⃣ Emma Zhao
Emma is learning creative tech, productivity, learning, and education. She also has a Twitter and YouTube account that publishes about art and development, so if you're into creativity, you should look into her profile.

📣 Announcement

We’ll be collaborating with Michael Simmons, a serial entrepreneur who is teaching people to learn HOW to learn🤝
His program, Month to Master, is a course to learn a valuable skill in a cohort, and Glasp would be one of the choices to share their learning with each other in the future. It is so grateful for us to collaborate with him and to welcome people who like to learn! Let’s learn things with new people together📚

See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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