Key Takeaways from the Week Gone By
What we learned together on Network Capital
Before we get started, here is a quote that had us thinking all week.
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear readers,
This past we week Network Capital made it way back to Harvard Business Review, to explore the nuances of hard work.
If you feel that you’re putting in the hours and not achieving the desired results, increasing your efforts may not be the answer. Think about whether your hard work is rightly directed or if you may be putting in too much work for things that have little impact. While hard work can help you establish yourself in a job, it will only take you so far.
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2. Finding your authentic voice as a creator
3. Nuances of monetisation for content
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Competitive Edge for Ambitious School Students
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At the Network Capital School, our mission is to help all school students build their category of one.
Newsletters
Making that one decision that changes your work life
We are thrilled to share that our community members (co-founders of Rocket Learning) won the Google.org AI award Lenin said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” The key question then becomes how do you decide the weeks when decades happen. How might you pick the 20% of working hours when 80% of action happens. Hard work may not lead to success, but there is something beyond the quantum of work that creates exponential results.
To be a chill normal dude feat Elon Musk + More
We hope the week has been great so far. Here are some updates from our side. Elon Musk’s biography is out in the market. Here is how it begins: “To anyone I’ve offended I just want to say: I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship … did you also think I was going to be a chill, normal dude?”
The perfect cold email + Bain Capital + Messing up school to leading multiple companies
Bain Capital is hiring. Join the Network Capital Bay Area subgroup for referral The cold email that got Snap CEO to respond in minutes Some of our community members met at the Royal Automobile Club at a mixer of family offices, tech entrepreneurs, and market makers. Thanks, Milken Foundation. Subscribe to Network Capital to access such events in your city.
Have a wonderful week ahead.
— Your Network Capital Team
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ― Virginia Woolf