Morning Routines, Tokens vs. Equity, & More

Happy Sunday!

We hope you had a lovely week of completing your daily Wordle and sending out Calendly links to your heart’s content.

We have some great pieces for you this week, so let’s get right to it.

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Andrew Huberman’s Morning Routine, Backed by Neuroscience

Dan Shipper, Julie Mosow, & Eric Thompson / Superorganizers

Figuring out a morning routine that works for you is largely a project of trial and error, created based on what others are doing, what feels better/worse, or unfounded conventional wisdom. But what does a morning routine backed by scientific research look like? In this week’s Superorganizers, the team breaks down the daily routine of Andrew Huberman (a Stanford neurobiologist and podcaster at  Huberman Lab) giving you the science behind each step and takeaways you can implement into your own morning ritual.

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Will Tokens Replace Equity?

Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

Startups are increasingly turning to a new kind of fundraising: crypto tokens. But is this new trend really 10x better than traditional equity? In this week’s post, Evan breaks down the differences between the two technologies—namely, the narrative network effects, the reality of no privacy with total anonymity, and the public and liquid nature of tokens. His verdict? It may not be better, but it is certainly weirder—and maybe that's enough.

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DeFi Explained

Li Jin & Nathan Baschez / Means of Creation

This is the first episode of a series of web3 explainers, which will cover the fundamentals and basic principles of web3. In other words, Li and Nathan are here to ask all the dumb questions you have about web3 that you were too afraid to ask out loud. On this episode, they chat with Every’s own Nat Eliason—writer of Almanack, crypto engineer, and educator who’s been at the forefront of DeFi long before it became became a trend. The three talk about decentralized finance and its potential to change the financial system we have today.

Listen.

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Sunday Snippets

Ali Abdaal | Sunday Snippets

Sunday Snippets is a weekly newsletter by YouTuber, productivity expert and med school graduate Ali Abdaal (2.6M subscribers). Every Sunday Ali shares his workflow tips, book recommendations, and gives a behind-the-scenes peek at his $3M online business to more than 137,000 friendly readers. He also writes helpful articles on subjects like productivity, entrepreneurship, and writing.

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Execs by OnDeck

Erik Torenberg / OnDeck (sponsored)

Execs is the podcast where founders and operators share their earned secrets—detailing firsthand knowledge they've gained solving rare and hard problems.

Each week Erik Torenberg sits down with top tech execs from companies like Shopify and Flexport to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics they used to go from startup to unicorn and beyond.

Listen now.

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• Kyla's Newsletter: Kyla publishes articles analyzing the stock market, crypto, and the macroeconomy, applying a philosophical lens to the broad market.
• Refind: Refind brings you the 7 most relevant links from around the web, personalized according to your interests and complete with author summaries and community highlights.
• Techmeme: Staying up-to-date with the changes in technology is essential to making sense of current events on a national and global scale. Techmeme's newsletter arrives straight to your inbox with the news and commentary posted each day, so you'll never miss a big story.

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