Short & Sweet! #1
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Short & Sweet! #1
Interesting, useful and fun things I came across this week...
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!
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:
Start incredibly small
Do it badly
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.