In today's round up, I have some amazing threads, resources, and plenty of solid advice for business, finance, career from twitter.

Here's the roundup of 17 of the best and the most useful threads, tweets, and resources I found last week. 🧵

1/ How to find spreadsheets on any topic in the world

https://t.co/Cffbc5ulEw
2/ A thread by @wes_kao on making your customers hungry and excited to buy from you.

https://t.co/nqRcCaQW4n
3/ Life brings you a lot of afflictions. But if you look around, there's a lot of beauty around you. Most often, drowning in the afflictions, we can't recognise or appreciate the beauty.

@wdmorrisjr wrote a damn good thread on finding beauty around us.

https://t.co/TrQFMiRXPT
4/ This one is for all the job goers and job seekers.

@SahilBloom who recently hit 500k followers and has several accomplishments to his belt (career wise) wrote this thread on standing out in a hiring process.

https://t.co/H9Um4B7KiQ
5/ @G_S_Bhogal wrote a neat thread on 40 behavioral psychology concepts you should know about.

This one went crazy viral.

https://t.co/ejlNfH9cng
6/ If you're a student currently, you'll appreciate this thread on useful apps and extensions for students by @she_writesrndm

https://t.co/aUYgCYao8c
7/ I have gone through difficulties losing weight myself when I put on 10kgs, staying at a hotel for 60 days. (In my defense, the food was just amazing)

Here is a thread by @lexie_starves on actionable weight loss tips.

https://t.co/cx9WIEZu4I
8/ This thread by @david_perell on the future of education, and why writing/teaching is going to be majorly helpful as a skill to stand out in the job market.

https://t.co/Q4OpsPD7T9
There are few more things I found online while studying branding and design last weekend and yesterday.

Here are some of them.

1) https://t.co/HKruL04gUm - major news sources as a feed in one webpage
2) https://t.co/JC2Ul80IPj - if you're starting a business or want to design beautiful slides for anything - be it your business or startup or at work, there are so many templates on this site you could refer to.

So, so beautiful and neatly done.
3/ Uber's brand guidelines document is so viscerally detailed that it is like a masterclass in branding, and it's a must read for anyone whose startup is getting more visibility.

https://t.co/6gi5MVqHUV
4/ This particular thread stirred up a lot of nostalgia.

Purely for 90's kids, for going down on a nostalgic trip.

https://t.co/3GHuLZni2F
5/ @patrick_oshag's summary of the Science of Storytelling book.

Storytelling is something I want to learn this year properly along with writing, so this particular tweet was quite helpful.

Adding this book to the to-be-read list.

https://t.co/8p7nDWAiFu
6/ This tweet by @hubermanlab on the benefits of cardio.

He's the only guy I currently follow on research driven health insights, and this was a very good one.

https://t.co/2egFH1eUeD
7/ This one impressed me a lot.

A photographer having 4+ photos of hers on book covers, all of which were captured on iPhone 4s.

It isn't the tool, it's the person using the tool that matters and @AratiKumarRao's work is a perfect example for that.

https://t.co/JsrlhV54Dv
8/ This tweet thread by @ShaanVP on some semi-controversial beliefs he has - very very insightful too.

https://t.co/eXn5AYoR77
9/ This thread by @thealexbanks on 10 threads that will teach you more about business.

Curation well done.

https://t.co/zJ0rS17vip

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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.

This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.

The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."

This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.