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Originally shared in our June 2026 Top of Mind Newsletter. Engineer and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis built his career on a simple contrarian habit: looking at the same headlines everyone else reads and asking, “What does this make possible?” His Moonshots podcast is a weekly, unfiltered tour of where technology, longevity, and entrepreneurship are heading, acting less as a tidy lesson than a standing invitation to practice seeing abundance where others see disruption. Long time followers…

Originally shared in our May 2026 Top of Mind Newsletter. Entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant has a counterintuitive take on sales: the best sellers don’t sell at all. In this episode of the Naval podcast, he argues that the most powerful thing you can do, whether you’re recruiting talent, raising money, or closing a deal, is to be credible. That means being honest about what you believe, knowledgeable enough to explain it simply, and genuinely…

Originally shared in our May 2026 Top of Mind Newsletter. Reed Hastings built one of the most disruptive companies in history, and he didn’t do it by focusing solely on technical skills. In a recent conversation on the Possible podcast, the Netflix cofounder and chairman made a case that’s worth sitting with: as AI takes over more of what computers used to require humans to do, the skills that will matter most are the ones…

Originally shared in our April 2026 Top of Mind Newsletter. Daniel Lubetzky didn’t set out to build a snack empire. He set out to build peace in the Middle East through commerce. What he discovered was that mission, no matter how meaningful, isn’t what moves people to act. Customers don’t buy your values. They buy what works for them. That hard-won insight, and the willingness to pivot without abandoning what he cared about, is what…

Originally shared in our April 2026 Top of Mind Newsletter. Most of us believe that the path to getting better is to work harder at the things we do. Eduardo Briceño — growth mindset researcher, former CEO of Mindset Works, and one of the most-watched TED speakers on the science of learning — challenges that assumption directly. In The Performance Paradox, he makes the case that focusing exclusively on performing is actually what stalls our…