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It’s pretty unusual for a typical European slow pop-rock song to find a certain level of success on other music scenes, especially in Asia. Timebelle, a Swiss Romanian band, did this without taking the already beaten path of promotion. Enter the world of nightcore, a community of people obsessed with video games and anime / manga series, who love to listen to fast paced music. Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter for more tips and stories from the complex world of digital music promotion.

Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hosting my friend Alix Pasquet III for an intimate conversation and Q&A (previous conversations: The Learning Mindset, Great Investors Build Networks). The conversation fit well into the effort of developing a framework for understanding great investors. Alix focused much more on mindset and practices than innate qualities. Great Analysts are great idea generators. What I think a really good analyst does is he maximizes opportunities, and he's willing, if he doesn't have all the qualities of a great investor, to surround himself with people that have those qualities and is able to still exploit and maximize opportunities.

The craziest thing happened a few months ago. This very normal thing I do with my kids every summer went VIRAL. A fellow-mama-on-IG reposted my reel and included her own spin on it. The next thing I knew, Good Morning America, The DailyMail, and ABCNews were calling!? Crazy, right! We covered a little bit about How to be a Person Camp on the Simplified Podcast, but I thought it’d be awesome to deep dive into it here.

Messiness comes in many forms. An unmade bed, dishes in the sink, a cluttered desktop... or an overwhelmed inbox. 350 billion emails a day flood our digital mailboxes. Some require immediate attention. Many don’t. Coping effectively with the onslaught is crucial. Read on for tips and tools for streamlining your inbox.   Because I struggle with massive email pileups, I’ve adopted a workflow and toolkit to save me from drowning. I’m sharing in case they’ll help you too.

Happy Thursday! (shhhh, let’s just pretend this newsletter comes out on Thursdays) First of all, I just put up a new video in which Chyna and I answer questions we got from AI. It’s ridiculous. 2ndly, the latest video from the fantastic Climate Town YT channel is fantastic! Don’t let the potentially boring topic of parking lots turn off. It’s hilarious, eye-opening, and kinda makes me see the world differently. Anyhoo…

dear friends, i’m grateful that you’re here! thank you for being here and being you. and now, one of my favorite things which is to give advice when people have asked me for advice. today’s request comes from one of my favorite substackers/artists/writers/people, (whose wonderful substack newsletter can be found here): sophie emailed me recently and said this: “I know you HAVE written MANY things on this topic, but you may be better at knowing where they are than I do.

The other day, someone said to me, “You are a connector. You put people together and magic happens.”  I was a bit confused. It’s no secret that I don’t really like networking, and I’m also an introvert—hardly a recipe for someone with a reputation for bringing people together. What could they have meant when they called me a connector? That remark stuck with me, mostly because it seemed so incongruous. Sure, I liked putting others in touch with people who could help them, but that could hardly be considered networking, could it?

The selves of the very young are so soft that they do not just ‘experience’ what is happening, they are what is happening. There is no separate ‘me’ witnessing ‘not me’. For the very young the sounds, smells, sights and, most intensely, the hyper-subtle atmosphere of the room (a.k.a. the context) are indistinguishable from the child’s default inner state of soft-consciousness, which she shares with the selfless adult, or the selfless hedgehog, in selfless communion.

Greetings from Jerusalem, My country is still at war, and I still don't have much time to write regularly, but I wanted to share some thoughts with you. I recently visited Shanghai and Beijing with my colleagues from the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Israel-China Policy Center, INSS. It was the first time I went since COVID-19, and we had the opportunity to meet with prominent academics and think-tankers specializing in Middle Eastern studies.