Morning Routines, Tokens vs. Equity, & More

Here's everything we published this week.

January 28, 2022

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Happy Sunday!

We hope you had a lovely week of completing your daily Wordle and sending out Calendly links to your heart’s content.

We have some great pieces for you this week, so let’s get right to it.

Andrew Huberman’s Morning Routine, Backed by Neuroscience

Dan Shipper, Julie Mosow, & Eric Thompson / Superorganizers

Figuring out a morning routine that works for you is largely a project of trial and error, created based on what others are doing, what feels better/worse, or unfounded conventional wisdom. But what does a morning routine backed by scientific research look like? In this week’s Superorganizers, the team breaks down the daily routine of Andrew Huberman (a Stanford neurobiologist and podcaster at Huberman Lab) giving you the science behind each step and takeaways you can implement into your own morning ritual.

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Will Tokens Replace Equity?

Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

Startups are increasingly turning to a new kind of fundraising: crypto tokens. But is this new trend really 10x better than traditional equity? In this week’s post, Evan breaks down the differences between the two technologies—namely, the narrative network effects, the reality of no privacy with total anonymity, and the public and liquid nature of tokens. His verdict? It may not be better, but it is certainly weirder—and maybe that's enough.