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Interesting, useful and fun things I came across this week...

Afzal Hussein
Nov 23, 2020
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Hey! 👋🏽

Hope you’re keeping well and safe. Here are interesting, fun, and useful things from this week. Enjoy!


This week’s ARTICLES

You’ll soon be able to buy a piece of AirBnB!

The many faces of memory bias

Why Instagram and TikTok are the new battlegrounds for digital banks like Revolut and Monzo

This week’s VIDEOS

3 ways to trick your brain into doing hard work:

In summary:

  1. Start incredibly small

  2. Do it badly

  3. Work in non-ideal places as the workspace can sometimes feel intimidating. Keep a journal/sticky notes/voice recorders around.


This made me laugh. He’s amazing! Michael Myers takes song requests on OMEGLE:

This week’s PRODUCT

A private professional network for quality intros

This week’s WEBSITE

I LOVE Lunchclub. I’ve been using them for a while. In simple terms, they connect you with people of interest to you.

OTHER

This week I hit 50K subscribers on the YouTube channel! Woop! Woop! Here’s a reaction video to Industry (a new investment banking graduate series) that is proving quite popular!


Think this newsletter is missing something? Let me know by replying. That's all for now. See you next week! 👊🏽


Who am I?

I'm Afzal Hussein. I'm currently building Simpley (a marketplace for career advice), I create career-focused YouTube videos (for 50,000 amazing subscribers), and I teach free finance and consulting career courses on Skillshare. But before I saw the light I used to work for an investment bank called Goldman Sachs.


My socials: Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube

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