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December 2, 2023

🗂️ Best of handpicked in November 2023 and supporters only extra

The best snippets & funding news that landed in your inbox last month with an extra few.

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A month has passed, and here is the collection again. A roundup of my favourite snippets, up to 6 per week or more. Thank you so much for your support! ❤️ You can also easily navigate to each issue by clicking on the title.

In November, we crossed 5k subs and I found some badly needed focus.

Unpublished extras

  • 30 Useful Principles (Autumn 2023) by Gurwinder has some great ideas that can inspire you.

  • Morgan Housel’s Same as Ever is a top gift for a friend or partner. It’s basically a a collection of essays/blog posts you can always return to. I also liked his previous book, The Psychology of Money.

  • How to prioritize tasks when everything feels important by Zapier is a good overview of useful techniques. I just do small list of stuff to do and then tick them off one by one.

  • In early November a shipping giant Maersk announced they will cut 10k jobs as the cargo boom ended. This means nothing good for the likes of Sennder and Forto in Berlin. And guess what, I heard rumours Forto was quietly laying of recently.

  • E-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles, because “There were over 280 million electric mopeds, scooters, motorcycles, and three-wheelers on the road last year. Their sheer popularity is already cutting demand for oil by a million barrels of oil a day.”

  • Maps:

  • and illusions (for a proof, see the tweet):

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