Advice

Early birds

/ markbartels

Benefits of waking up early:

See the sunrise

No coffee queues

No traffic and seat available on public transport

Up before the kids

Stay on time instead of chasing time

Sleep better

Time to exercise

You get to tell people you wake up early 😜

Get the worm

Optionality, flexibility and resilience

/ markbartels

Nobody predicted the changes to our lives once Covid hit. Things like housing prices, stock markets, border closures, vaccine efficacy, zoom, remote work, travel bans, raw material shortages, etc., were all complete unknowns.

Who would have predicted that Moderna, a US health-tech company, would create the first mRNA COVID vaccine within two days of receiving the COVID-19 genetic code!

People and companies of people will invent new ways to work and play over the next few years that we can’t even begin to imagine. It’s exciting and daunting if you don’t like change.

Humans are crap at predicting the future. People underestimate the changes that will occur when we snap back and the pandemic is behind us.

When the world snaps back, the way to thrive is to stop trying to predict the future and be ready to respond and adapt to the next curveballs.

People that have optionality, flexibility, and resilience will thrive. 

NOMADLAND

/ markbartels

I finally watched this movie and I highly recommend it. It will be difficult to appreciate the film if you haven’t lived in the US and seen the paradoxes of the people and the landscapes.

You haven’t visited the US if you’ve just been to New York, LA, San Francisco, Miami, Boston or Chicago. Those are vibrant port cities that are their own little nation states.

To try to understand and appreciate the US enigma you need to dig a deeper and see all the layers. Nomadland does that.