Hi everyone,

This week we're diving into major tech themes, trends that will shape our careers and a guide to community.

Cheers,
Janel

18 Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022
Super smart people share trends that will shape our careers. Here for the Chief Workflow Officer, employers (and employees) taking extra curriculars seriously, and community based hiring.

Three Steps to the Future
“Everything the internet did for music or newspapers, is now happening to everyone else” Loved diving into this presentation on major tech themes like crypto, web3, VR, SaaS and metaverse by Benedict Evans. Well researched, backed up with facts. His presentation just flows beautifully.

Why Tokyo Works
How urban design and transportation make this city so liveable. Did you know that Tokyo has an incredibly low car-ownership rate? 0.54 cars per household. They don't need cars.

A Founder's Guide To Community
An in-depth guide to why communities are important and how you can build a community around your product. Companies like Notion, Peloton, Salesforce and Twitch have done an excellent job at this, and you can too.

The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best
How to improve your performance at anything through deliberate practice, which is the best technique for reaching expert performance in any field. 

My Recommended Resources - My productivity stack. These are the tools I use as a creator, operator, writer, community manager and founder.

Nifty Generator - Generate your own NFT collection without coding.

Dimmy.club - Device mockup generator for all your app screenshots.

Heygo - Free virtual live tours of different cities, streaming in HD! Examples of what's on offer: Christmas Lights of Vigo, Galicia's largest city, and Rio's Sunday Hippie Market In Ipanema.

Emoji To Scale - Emojis that you know and love, sorted by scale.

Ambient Chaos - A soundboard that can help you concoct a symphony of  ambient chaos. Free campfire, dentist's office, zombie invasions (or at least their interpretation of those sounds) + more.