Hi everyone!

This week we're covering tactics to build resilience, sharing about the people behind your feed, plus learning how to make good requests and be better speakers on Zoom!

I'd like to take a moment to appreciate the kind people who got me a few coffees on my Buy Me A Coffee page in the month of February! Thanks Sonia, Rahul, Tomi & Deepika (plus everyone who has supported in the past). It really warms my heart to see people show their appreciation!

To show mine, I'm organizing a mini Icebreaker session. If you want to get to know other BrainPint community members in a fun 1-on-1 round robin session and hang out on Saturday, do register here. I'm keeping this session small (and of course, free!)

With gratitude,
Janel

7 Mentally Tough People on the Tactics They Use to Build Resilience
Clever tactics to build resilience.

• Embrace the “pain cave” - Know that you will be able to leave at some point!
• Don't mistake your reality as the only truth - There is no one universal, absolute truth
• Find the good in the awful - Frame negative events in life in a positive light
• Remember that life only moves forward
  

10 Questions That Changed Greg Isenberg's Life
"Question: Are you earning trust?
Don't focus on building success, focus on earning trust
Trust is the rarest commodity on earth
If you can earn trust, you can build anything"

Get Specific
When you're stuck, get specific. When you're asking for help, get specific. Write down everything you know, and research what you don't know.

Meet The Team Behind Your Feed
Learn how a product team is structured and what roles help to build products in tech companies like Instagram and Facebook.

10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2021
mRNA vaccines, GPT-3, recommendation algorithms, lithium-metal batteries and more.

How To Make A Request Of A Busy Person
A masterclass in how to make it easy for a busy person to say yes. By 13-year-olds, no less. Give a clear overview of the project, fill up as much information as possible, and make it easy to say no!

35 Words You're Probably Getting Wrong
We sometimes use words wrongly. This article reminds us about common mistakes so we don't make oopsies! Are you supposed to use gourmet, or gourmand?  Did you know that Inflammable/Flammable mean the exact same thing? 

How To Be A Better Speaker On Zoom
Practical tips on how you can improve your presence & become a better speaker over Zoom video calls by my friend Robbie.

Today I'm sharing about some new tools I use at work! (and paying for!) I don't get paid by these guys to say good stuff, I'm just a fan!

SavvyCal -  Scheduling meetings shouldn't be painful or awkward. SavvyCal makes scheduling meetings collaborative by allowing both parties to overlay their calendars. I've been on SavvyCal for a month and love how easy it is to:

• Create multiple event links for different meeting
  
• Provide ranked meeting timings
• Create personalized meeting links with a human touch

Sunsama - A daily task manager that helps you get things done. I lean on this heavily at work and most of my Ops team mates swear by it. Pulls in things from Calendar, Email, Notion, Todoist, Trello and Slack into a single place. Bash through your tasks and if you don't, they'll roll into the next day.

Toby - Organize your tabs with this free Chrome extension. It's a visual workspace that lives on every tab and makes hunting for links so much better. I don't have bookmark bar clutter.

Flim - A movie screenshot search engine. Here's the page from my favorite movie The Dark Knight. And cheerier screenshots from Toy Story 3.

Abbreviations - The world's largest search engine for all those abbreviations you don't understand.

City Guesser - Watch videos from cities around the world and play a guessing game! If we can't travel, we might as well play some fun games, right?

Sunrise When - Gorgeous site that shows you when the sunrise & sunset times are.