🕊 Mindset and Motivation in Tech

Good morning!This is Hey Elaha's third edition. A newsletter that shares interesting links on mindset and motivation in tech and business.

This week we'll learn how to ask the empowering questions to take on opportunities, and win in your career by pursuing low status projects. Last Friday's email was a banger. Read here if you missed it!

Here's what happened over the week:

• I published my first collab with Head of Ops, Shilpa Mohan, to share insights on being Startup Operators in Sydney.

  • Read here on how to break into your first Ops role.

• I'll moderate and speak at THREE panel events this month:

  • [18th July] Startmate: Building a Unicorn with Culture Amp Co-founder Doug English.

  • [21st July] Textbook Ventures: How to Break into Startups as a Generalist.

  • [27th July] Earlywork: How to Break into Startups.

Be sure to come and say Hi 👋🏼

💌 On a personal note: I'm learning to manage my energy, and harmonise my love for always being on the go with rest. I decided to send the next editions out fortnightly to focus on energy recovery.

If you have tips on how to harmonise ambition and taking rest, send them my way.

Sending you love, until next time!

⏱ How To Use Your Down Time Intentionally. David argues the importance of spending one's leisure time meaningfully as the clock of mortality is ticking. There is a contrast between passive consumption and indulging in other downtime activities that brings us back to life. Time is scarce, understand how to meaningfully spend it.

❓ How To Ask Empowering Questions in Your Career. In this article, you will learn how to dream big by starting small. Small as the questions you ask yourself when faced with opportunities. There are dreams that make you go, 'I can't possibly get there.' It tells you how to reframe those disempowering thoughts in your career.

💪🏼 Debate on To Build Skills or Start a Business First. My First Millions podcast hosts debate whether you should learn the skills before you start your business or start your company and figure it out as you go.

💎 How to Win in Career by Pursuing 'Low-Status' Projects. A video on the path to success chosen in life. If you're going after your dreams, that path is most likely uncool and not prestigious at the start, but it is true to you. Companies like Stripe and Jeff Bezos started as not so prestigious and uncool companies. While most people are busy chasing the wrong signals, and what society tells them is cool, optimize for projects with an aligned mission.

🎧 Why the CEO of Spotify Leads a Life of 'Fiery Soul'. In this podcast episode, you will be inspired by the Spotify CEO by his story of growing up in a conformist culture to building a unicorn in the US. He talks about systems for building healthy habits that allowed him to lose weight. The mental model for becoming a better leader at his company to training staff to be mission-oriented.

Meet the Curator

I'm currently based in Sydney, Australia. I'm a startup operator, mindset enthusiast, and lifelong learner. When I'm not working, I can be often found bringing people together, studying the world's best people in tech and reading endlessly.

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