Millions of employees have left their companies in the last two years to pursue something different. But that smooth onboarding experience you expected might feel more like a bumpy ride. You may have only met your team on video and be feeling a bit disconnected. You may be memorizing names and faces, trying to figure out who to go to for what, or wondering how to get more visibility.  However, with some quick strategies, you can hit the ground running, develop relationships and start showing value.

Preparing to enter a new job

Identify the top three things you would want someone to know about you. It could be the types of problems you can solve or what you're passionate about. By being clear, you will naturally share this in conversations so that people can more quickly understand who you are.

Start building your brand

Consider what you will deliver in the first six months and year. Ask your manager for their input, too. Then you'll get a sense of where you will have the biggest impact.

Define success for your role

In the first three months, you'll have the ability to ask sensitive questions as someone new. So ask the most critical ones. <ul><li>Find out any unwritten rules you should be aware of to understand the company culture and dynamics of the group.</li><li>Find out who matters most to the success of your role and team and how supportive they are.</li></ul>

Ask what you can't later

<ul><li>Get to know people and help them get to know you in the first few months. This foundation will help to build stronger, trusting relationships.</li><li>Show that you can deliver with a need to stay focused on the most critical work.</li><li>Don't only focus on building relationships with more senior people, as feedback from your peers can greatly impact how others view you.</li><li>Find out who is important to know, then establish a regular cadence of meetings with them, even if it's once per quarter or for only 15 minutes.</li></ul>

Balance relationships and results

Executive coach Neena Newberry reveals quick strategies to hit the ground running, develop relationships, and start showing your value.   


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Career

6 simple but crucial things you must do in your first 3 months on the job

Each new generation is sharing moreFinancial crises are driving people to talk about the elephants in the room (debt etc.)Hacker mindset is spilling over into finances; people want to beat the system

People are talking more publicly about their finances. Why?

Interactions (emotional and cognitive things which occur between people) + transactions (the actual financial stuff going on). When these both work together, the results can be incredible. Examples:Venmo, which combined chat with money transfer (and an emoji)SoFi, does personal finance/lending, but made it cool to be one of their members with parties and an acronym

What is Social + Finance?

Many companies/products use social (“multi-player”) as a way to get started, and then move more towards the financial (“single-player”) side of their offering.SoFi, again, built a tight community and then concentrated on lendingWealthfront, an investment firm, started out as KaChingRobinhood, started more social and then moved more towards transactionsProsper, another platform which started out more social

Single-Player and Multi-Player

Money is still private, so people are less likely to invite each other to a social product that involves moneyHowever, some companies are able to get past this by not blatantly linking to moneyRobinhood is one example. It functions more as a game and allows consumers to feel high class and adult since they have a portfolio

Why not stay social + finance?

Taking transaction to social (like Robinhood)From social sites, like those which have developed wallets etcFrom games, like Fortnite, which now has a token economyFrom platforms, such as Reddit (think WallStreetBets), which see crazy behaviors that could become mainstream…or not

New socio-finance companies/products could come from all areas

Some emergent social trends stay niche (or subculture), but if stigmas drop for the trend, it could go viralCrypto is one socio-finance topic that has changed how we talk and think about moneyDebt is one of the hardest socio-finance topics to tap into, but Instagram hashtags are one place where this is changingProducts have focused on solving a functional/transactional part of a problem (changing the numbers).Now, products are also starting to focus on cognitive and emotional parts of problemsThere are also many offline socio-finance communities, which could be brought online

Examples of socio-finance topics, behavior, and formation…

Examples of companies doing this well:Joy – app to rate transactions by how you feelCredit Karma – making debt less scary and providing transparency so you can know how you stack up to othersExamples of not doing this well:Budgeting and personal finance apps. They have cognitive and functional value, but don’t tap into emotional aspectsPortfolio sharing products. Many try to be social, but too heavy into function

The emotional part of socio-finance needs to continue to be improved

The intersection of social and finance—as well as shifting attitudes around what we share about money—have given way to a new wave of financial products.

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Cryptocurrency

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Technology & The Future

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Startups

The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social + Fintech

Young workers in a competitive culture often expect their careers to reach their height in a short time. Younger generations bounce from job to job, maybe viewing their jobs as mere stepping stones toward better salaries and job titles. But this perpetual rat race can lead to burnout and disillusionment. It's better to regard careers with a long view.

A career mindset

If you're in a rush to move up, you could risk losing out on opportunities within your reach. Focusing on your current job will allow your skills to develop, while chasing new jobs may weaken your skills instead of growing them. Most Millenials stay at their jobs for an average of four years. That is enough to master a trade before you feel the need to move on. If you feel you're being nurtured and treated fairly, it's better to wait for the right opportunity.

If you like your job, stay for a while

There is a noticeable current of careerism in the corporate world. There are many would-be influencers who use platforms like LinkedIn to promote their professional image. This can be destructive for anyone desiring professional advancement. Considering this sentiment can make you a status-chaser and make your career feel inadequate.  Instead, focusing on yourself and developing your own skills will make life more enjoyable.

Tune out the hype

Try to view your career track like a graph that shows short-term vs long-term investment gains.  It will look volatile in the short term, but the long term will reveal an upward trend.

Visualize your career path over the long haul

In the hyper-competitive culture fostered by corporate America, young workers often expect their careers to reach meteoric heights on a quick timeline. Younger generations don’t stay at their jobs for quite as long as their parents did, whether it’s due to economic factors or the view that most jobs are mere stepping…

Your Career Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Artificial intelligence will shape our future more powerfully than any other innovation this century. Much of our day-to-day technology is powered by artificial intelligence. AI is used to design <a href="https://www.ibm.com/watson/health/oncology-and-genomics/oncology/">evidence-based treatment plans</a> for cancer patients, instantly analyze results from medical tests to <a href="https://deepmind.com/applied/deepmind-health/">escalate to the appropriate specialist</a> immediately, and conduct <a href="http://benevolent.ai/">scientific research</a> for drug discovery.

Why machine learning matters

Today AI is used to design <a href="https://www.ibm.com/watson/health/oncology-and-genomics/oncology/">evidence-based treatment plans</a> for cancer patients, instantly analyze results from medical tests to <a href="https://deepmind.com/applied/deepmind-health/">escalate to the appropriate specialist</a> immediately, and conduct <a href="http://benevolent.ai/">scientific research</a> for drug discovery.Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence. Its goal is to enable computers to learn on their own. A machine’s learning algorithm enables it to identify patterns in observed data, build models that explain the world, and predict things without having explicit pre-programmed rules and models.

The semantic tree: artificial intelligence and machine learning

The advent of greater-than-human-level artificial superintelligence (ASI) could be one of the best or worst things to happen to our species. It carries with it the immense challenge of specifying what AIs will want in a way that is friendly to humans.Machine learning is at the core of our journey towards artificial general intelligence, and in the meantime, it will change every industry and have a massive impact on our day-to-day lives.

Studying Machine Learning

<ul><li>T-shaped approach - Read from beginning to end. Summarize each section in your own words as you go; this encourages active reading and stronger retention.</li><li>Focused approach - Jump straight to the sections you’re most curious about and focus your mental energy there.</li><li>80/20 approach - Skim everything in one go, make a few notes on interesting high-level concepts, and call it a night.</li></ul>

How to approach machine learning

The ultimate guide to machine learning. Simple, plain-English explanations accompanied by math, code, and real-world examples.

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Product & Design

A Beginner’s Guide to AI/ML 🤖👶

Having a G Suite account will let you create business email addresses for your domain and you'll also get 30 gigabytes worth of space.G Suite also gives you the option to create e-mail "aliases" that can be useful when setting up different identities or message filters for your brand.

Using G Suite

<ul><li>Get a custom domain name (notanactualsite.com) which is only $12/year with Google Domains</li><li>Sign up for a free Gmail account to use with the project (notanactualsite@gmail.com)</li><li>Create a custom domain email address with Google Domains (david@notanactualsite.com)</li><li>Forward emails sent from the custom domain email to the gmail account</li><li>Send future emails as custom domain email (david@notanactualsite.com)</li><li>Eliminate the need to purchase a new account for every projects</li></ul>

Using Google Domain

This tutorial would ideally be helpful for people who build/manage multiple projects, while wanting a custom domain name + email address for each. Granted, a G Suite account will indeed allow you to…

How to hook up a custom domain email to your free Gmail account

Money is power. Kings of the ancient world knew this and gave themselves a monopoly on minting money. They used the metal coins to pay their soldiers and for use in trade. Merchants were ordered to pay their taxes in this coin. This is almost the entire history of money in a nutshell. When the power passed to nation-states, so did the power to print money. No one else was allowed to create their own money. Those who tried were crushed.

The Ascent of Money

E-gold was one of the first attempts to create an alternative currency. It was launched in 1996 and processed over $2 billion worth of transactions at its peak in 2008. But the US government brought charges against the system's leaders for running an unlicensed money transmitting business.  The key here is unlicensed because the power to grant a license is monopoly power. E-gold could apply for a license, but they were not going to get them. This is because kings and nation-states know that if they control the money, they control the world.

Alternative currencies

In 2008, an anonymous programmer found a way to create a decentralised system of money: Bitcoin. It was designed to resist coercion and control by a centralised power.In a decentralised system, there is no head that can take control. It is a hydra. Cut off one head, and others will pop up to take its place. The real power of cryptocurrencies is not just decentralisation and resistance to violence but the power to print and distribute money without a central authority.

Decentralised money systems

An argument against Bitcoin is that it's a Ponzi or 'pyramid' scheme. A pyramid scheme is where the original creators on top of the system get as many gullible people as possible and pay them for recruiting people to the system rather than offering goods and services. Eventually, there will be none left to enrol, and the system will collapse. Ironically, fiat currency, i.e. government printed money like the Yen or US Dollar, is closer to a pyramid scheme than Bitcoin. Central banks at the top of the pyramid print money and lend it to people or give it for their labour.

The Great Pyramid

Every single system in the world has distributed money from the top down because it maximises the advantage of the kings at the top. It means the money never really leaves the top. Since money is power, hoarding it means more power. Nobody is willing to give up that power, meaning the game is rigged. One way to reset the game is where everyone would get a stream of money, not redistribute the money after it's been distributed. Cryptocurrencies are creating new money. This money is not loaned to people but given for their service to the network.

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When Bitcoin was created, the creator understood the power to print money. What he missed was the power to distribute that money. Money can be distributed far and wide at the moment of creation and given out as rewards for using apps or as distributed mining fees, or as shared cuts of the mining fees. A system that gamifies the delivery of money will create exponential growth. Instead of just rewarding people at the top, who have been turning the rules in their own favour, everyone can benefit. People will have control over the money they rightfully earned.

Gamify the delivery of money

There’s one incredible feature of cryptocurrencies that almost everyone seems to have missed, including Satoshi himself. But it’s there, hidden away, steadily gathering power like a hurricane far out…

6 simple but crucial things you must do in your first 3 months on the job

The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social + Fintech

Your Career Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

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