June 10, 2024
Good morning!
It was eighty years since D-Day, hardly a person remains alive… and the world has largely forgotten, to what peril?
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- Original Primary Research Report: If you purchase your bananas on the green side you’ll be paying for approximately 34% peel (waste) and 66% fruit.
- On a sliding scale, by weight, you will get more fruit and less peel (waste) the yellower and browner the bananas are when purchased.
- A banana ready for banana bread or banana fritters or banana smoothie will yield ~80% fruit and just ~20% waste —
- …and, ironically, in some stores featuring a brown banana discount shelf, you’ll pay much less per pound when compared to picture-perfect bananas.
- That will result in an entirely different and more cost efficient algorithm.
- So, what can we learn from this?
- Picture-perfect bananas will cost you more than double when compared to picture-imperfect bananas.
- Knowing this information, is it likely to change behaviour? No.
- If the bank were offering 14% what would you do?
- Freelancing? Side Gig? Moonlighting?
- More than 4% of the U.S. economy is accounted for by individuals who are hustling some sort of product or service in a nontraditional way. (Fiverr)
- For the most part this means no formal organizational structure, no payroll, and lots of hustle to make ends meet.
- The biggest chances for success are for those enterprises related to technology. (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Seventy-five percent of people involved with freelancing report happiness — and optimism — vs. forty-seven percent of those employed in more traditional jobs.
- Entrepreneurship is NOT dead… and you witness it most in immigrant populations.
- “It is noble to teach yourself, but still nobler to teach others — and less trouble.” (Clemens)
- What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful? (Informed by, The Good Life, Waldinger, Schulz, 2023)
- The simple but perhaps surprising answer is: Relationships.
- The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and healthier lives.
- The strength of our connections with others can predict the health of both our bodies and our minds as we go through life.
- Are you built to face your greatest fears head-on? (Informed by an interview with Nate Boaz of Microsoft)
- “Those who have a why to live can bear almost any how.” (Frankl)
- It isn’t enough to be a humble leader — or a courageous leader. You have to be both.
- You need the courage to be full-hearted.
- Courage is being full of heart to step outside your comfort zone, take risks, and do the hard things.
- We don’t talk about mental health enough; it needs to be destigmatized, especially among men…
- The perception is that leaders aren’t vulnerable, don’t ask for help, or discuss their needs.
- It takes a lot of courage to admit you need help and even more courage to get help. (Running Toward Fire, Boaz)
- More on this later, perhaps, but for now: Why are there so many bad bosses?
- Raise your hand if you have a bad boss — or had one at some point — or, (gulp!) maybe you are or were one?!
- Narcissism, overconfidence, low emotional intelligence, no empathy… why do we as a society persist in focusing on these qualities when choosing leaders?
- Hot air rises — and so, unfortunately, do many of the aspiring leaders who spout it.
- Why do we continue to mistake confidence for competence, and what should we be doing differently? (Hancock, Weddle, Etc., et al., 2024)
- Like we said, maybe more on this subject in a future summer edition of Musings…
