Pull to Eject

Corporate goals and personal goals seem to grow farther apart the longer we work. Only 44% (Gallup) of employees strongly agree that they can connect their own goals to the goals of their organization.

And that is just the natural cycle as we fill our lives with details. We typically get cars, pets, married, mortgages, kids, involved in our communities and one day wake up with the Sunday Scaries.

In a recent Gallup poll, only 23% of employees felt like they worked for great leaders. Employees who trust the leadership of their organization are 4 times as likely to be engaged and 58% less likely to be seeking a new job.

But if you are in the majority, it’s easy to dream about greener pastures. Corporate inefficiency, ‘not my job’ colleagues, political promotions, forced team-building … none of it related to your ‘work.’

Somehow the things we were hired to do - our expertise - is pigeon holed into very small parts of the daily.

Can your expertise be turned into a book? or a template? or a course? or repeatable service offering? Or a consulting gig?

Build your own corporate goals.

Now go launch something 🚀 

Modern Tools

So maybe you’re wondering just how generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM) actually work? Wonder no more as this excellent Financial Times article describes the scientific transformer model, then demonstrates with an animation to help it all make sense.

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Old School Wisdom

Peter Thiel’s best seller, Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future - (#ad) starts by asking the questions to find value in unexpected places, but leads to an optimistic view of the future of progress in America.

Thiel believes progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Free Knowledge

Tim Ferriss was one of the earliest and has become one of the most successful content creators.

Started in 2014, the Tim Ferriss Show has surpassed 900 million downloads as the most popular business podcast of all time and has been selected “Best of” Apple pods for the last 3 years.

Besides the 5 books he’s written, he was a pre-seed money advisor for Uber, TaskRabbit, Reputation.com and was an early investor in Twitter. He became so successful that he left Silicon Valley in 2017. You have to give the man credit for trendspotting.

At the very least, you should sign up for his free 5 Bullet Friday newsletter. I also highly recommend his first book The 4 Hour Work Week (#ad) and the fantastic collection of interviews in Tools of Titans.

Visual Crapshoot

Do you know people who should read the Launch Key? You know what to do