FASTer - Issue #87

November 25, 2022

Tough times call for action. Real equitable action. Todays issue will focus on EID(Earning in Dollars). Thats it, nothing else to see/read here this week besides actionable content and ideas.

But is that enough, you have been presumably reading this news letter for 86 Weeks? You have had 602 days, did you do any thing besides reading? What is the opportunity cost of being comfortable with discomfort?

What will it take for you to change your actions thus your outcomes? No amount of forced feeding, content snippets, other peoples great ideas or execution strategies will make you get off your rear end, unless you decide today what it feels like to get $s in exchange for the same work for which you may be getting rupees.

It is a great feeling to have your effort compound by way receiving compensation in a stronger currency. Beyond that, it's liberating to monetize your own skill set, the first $ is the hardest, the second still harder but the 100th is celebratory.

Celebrate your life, celebrate your time, celebrate your worth, celebrate your effort, celebrate your intellect by celebrating that you live in a time where the internet allows you to EID(Earn in Dollars).

Outcomes

Your outcomes are tied to skills are you ready to learn some new ones for free so you can EID?

A real super power is to go to twitter and... type in what ever you want free resources about. It's that easy. Nope no catch. Just go search.

What about places to explore to EID?

What about some more?

How about still some more?

Still some more. I can share the lists, but I cant make you list your services or products.

One New Thing

That we all assume the other person is doing better because they are luckier. Not the case. Your luck is directly proportional to your effort. If you are un-willing to go try do or learn one new thing each day vs the person that does, your luck surface area will continue to be smaller than theirs. You are really very lucky just to be here. How you play the game is up to you.

An excerpt from a post I read full article here

Really?

Yes, really. How do I know? Statistical probability. Flip a coin: heads or tails, 50-50 odds, easy to understand, right? When chromosomes recombine in the process of meiosis, the chance of your DNA forming — thus, the chance of you existing — is so close to zero it is an absolute wonder that you exist. A professor said that “any couple could have … 70 trillion different possible children.” Even if your parents had billions of children, what is the chance of them creating you? Not zero, but very close to it.

And what was the chance of them finding one another and marrying? Very slim. And what was the chance of them even existing? Very close to zero. To calculate the probability of you even having a 1 in 70 trillion chance of life, start multiplying the almost zero chance of each of your many ancestors living and surviving long enough to reproduce, without doctors, hospitals, paramedics, antibiotics, flu shots, police, grocery stores, and cozy homes.

With each generation, the chance of your genes surviving was vanishingly small: many trillions of times more likely to not occur than occur.

You are lucky to be here, Make it count!

Boring Stuff that Scales

Learning from the examples of others. Did you know, that there is a way to see, learn and understand from the resume submissions of others?

Wait what? You want us to apply for jobs?

Entrepreneurship isn't for every one, but creating the path to it by virtue of learning from a corporate career is not a bad idea. Not every one is skilled to go head first.

Be it an other job, that makes you create a path to a side hustle or expanding your side hustles surface area to catch more work, there is one thing that can come in handy.

Looking at well written CVs; great content writing in any space is a skill to have. Be it marketing your self for a free lancer role, a new gig, a corporate job that gets you the experience you need for some thing new later on. Heres a brilliant website that allows you to do just that.

So if you have a target company that you want to sell into, or position your self at , this website displays which resumes were shortlisted by your target company. For practically every role, it contains a comprehensive database. Go ahead, give it a shot.

What you should be Watching

Harnessing the power of how you perceive things for better outcomes.

Friend or foe? In a fraction of a second, our brain forms an impression of a person based on their facial expressions and voice. And artificial intelligence is getting better and better at interpreting human emotions.

Faces and voices are the first impressions we get of people we don’t know. In less than half a second, we decide whether we like or trust a person, and how intelligent we think they are. That’s thanks to the astonishing processing power of our brains. We learn to read facial expressions as babies, and as we grow older we continue to interpret emotions according to facial expressions. The voice also plays a crucial role: speed, syntax, tone, and phonetics all provide information about what a person is feeling.

But we are not the only ones who can decipher human emotions. Artificial intelligence technology is also learning to read faces and voices. A photo or a spoken sentence is usually enough to get information about identity, health, emotions and even personality. And the internet has become a vast and ever-growing database of faces and voices. Based on the sound of a voice, artificial intelligence can now detect whether a person suffers from Parkinson's, depression or even Covid-19. In this documentary, international experts offer insight into the latest science, illuminating how our brains work -- and the potential of artificial intelligence.

Monetize your time

By finding inspiration from the world of franchise building. Ordinary people like us, you and me have gone from seemingly ordinary professions and built empires. Monetize your time reading about their wins so you can design your own.

Made in Pakistan(you)

List ten things you can start doing this week, this month, remainder of this year that will allow you to EID?

Let me give you a head start. Invest in your self. By allowing your self to fail as you learn. Watch this and pay attention.

One last thing

Discovering the fact that "freedom is for sale". May you find yours.