We are sending you 3 hand-picked good articles to highlight this week. Hopefully, they'll bring new perspectives and help you develop your career and learning journey. (you can read this online!)
📚 This Week's Reading List
the actual work is not taking notes | obsidianby Kemal Tekce(4min) Taking notes only helps us build up knowledge. But this knowledge is not worth much if we don’t use it. In addition to building knowledge, we should also build up experience through practice and play. So, the actual work is not reading, taking notes, or connecting your notes. 🔗 Glasp Community Highlights 🔍 more content in #Knowledge Management, #Note-taking
Self-competition: only compete with your past selfby Anne-Laure Le Cunff (5min) Competition should be about chasing your own unrealized potential. You will never beat your future self—by definition, your future self will always be one step ahead. When you try to compete with others, you are following rules instead of creating your own game. You are creating additional stress for yourself by letting others define your performance indicators. You are moving towards someone else’s accomplishments instead of just moving forward in a direction that’s yours to shape. 🔗 Glasp Community Highlights 🔍 more content in #Self-improvement
Growth vs scaling: What's the difference and why does it matter?by Patrick Whatman (9min) In the modern business world, few ideas are more important than growth. Even long-time stock market fixtures like McDonald's and General Motors are judged by their quarterly growth rates. And a failure to grow can be catastrophic. But for younger companies - and particularly startups - there's an equally strong fixation on a scale. How can a business not just grow, but grow exponentially? In this article, the author explains the differences between growth and scaling. 🔗 Glasp Community Highlights 🔍 more content in #Growth, #Startup
📣 Community News
🟩 Reading Challenge
We had the #read5for5 reading challenge last week! We could see many learners joining and learning in the challenge. Thank you for participating!
🟦 Welcomed 10,000 learners
We welcomed the 10,000 learners to Glasp yesterday! Thank you for joining, introducing Glasp, and learning with us! We'd like to expand our learning circle, so we hope you share it with your friends 🙂
❤️ Gratitude
Thank you, Ev, for writing about us on your Medium website! Your use case and writing flow are insightful and helpful for other learners! Please check out her website!
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