Hello from the Sam and Claire (your Local Boys) with your weekly inside scoop on mindfulness and web3.

Today we're trying something a bit different. We're remaking how we talk about web3, careers, and life. In fact, we're not talking about web3 at all. We're taking off the hats we wear, shedding the bullsh*t and embracing real talk. Let us know what you think.

-S & M

Let's dive in:

• 🍭 What We're Excited About

• 🌴 How to Spring Forward

• 💪 Action Steps

WHAT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT

1️⃣ Movie: Creative escape time. We both gave Grand Budapest Hotel a rewatch and were WOW-ed by Wes Anderson yet again. This delightfully quirky story reminds us to take creative risks.

2️⃣ Podcast: Remember the glitter bomb scientist? This podcast looks into how Mark Rober, NASA & Apple engineer, thinks differently.

3️⃣ Quick read: How will AI transform design? Picture limitless creativity for altruistic and selfish intent at your fingertips here.

4️⃣ Long read: "Every belief will be outgrown, in time. The first lesson of the universe is to never reason from only a single instance. Unless you only have one instance. In which case: find another." Novel. Read.

5️⃣ Work Jamz: Weval

6️⃣ Free Workshop: How to Be an Effective Product Marketing Leader. Led by Sam, we're talking about the skills you need to lead and how to acquire them. This isn't just about how to launch a Go-to-Market, but how to embrace your edges to create work that matters.

RESILIENCE

re·sil·ience /rəˈzilēəns/ noun

1. The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

2. The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.

We often fail to recognize the true meaning of resilience, mistaking it solely as a heightened "toughness" to withstand events. This is the first definition above.

But consider the second, often overlooked definition.

Resilience is not how just much one can withstand but the ability to combine strength and flexibility into something further: elasticity - the ability to move with greater forces and eventually come back to center.

Consider the major economic blows in the preceding months (S&P drop, inflation, boy billionaire under house arrest, interest rates rising, Silvergate, SVB...the list goes on). Within each we see the macro ripples of too big to fail once again.

But what of the micro ripples? As individuals in the midst of market uncertainty and a 24/7 news cycles it can be tempting to check out completely. We say do it.

DO IT.

We dare you.

Turn off the news feed. Turn on a song. Whether ecstatic chaos or a humble head nod, shove your chair back and move free from judgement.

Don't like music? Make art. Cook with a spice you've never heard of. Paint a terrible portrait. Make anything from anything.

While large events roll onwards, individual resilience can emerge by choice.

Open questions:

1. What feels heavy?

2. What feels light?

We'll return next week to dive a bit deeper.

THIS WEEK I WILL

1️⃣ Relax. Growth is an energy intensive process.

2️⃣ Get my groove on. If you weren't convinced yet, this article proves that shakin' it enhances cognition.

3️⃣ Observe what creates tension in my life, and what brings energy.

WHAT WE'RE PONDERING

That's a wrap. See ya next week!

🖤 Your Local Boys

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