Today is my 40th birthday.

To celebrate, I'm sharing 40 lessons I wrote for myself in case they're useful to you too: 1/ When it comes to how to live, what is true for you is very rarely true for others. Be careful of your own projections.

18 Lessons For Building Great (Not Big) Companies: 1) Success doesn't mean big. Success means great.

How To Accelerate Team Learning #4 - Teaching --WHY IT WORKS--

There are two primary reasons learning by teaching works so well:

How To Accelerate Team Learning #3 - Sharing --WHY IT WORKS--

The service reps who fixed Xerox machines routinely dealt with complexity that was impossible to capture in an SOP.

Each machine was slightly different from the next.

These Xerox reps began exchanging repair tips + tricks in informal meetings over breakfast.

How To Accelerate Team Learning #2 - Reflecting Most high-performing professionals have never experienced failure.

They have excelled since high school.

Instead of embracing failure, they get defensive and blame others.

How To Accelerate Team Learning #1 - Doing WHY IT WORKS:

Would you get in a car with someone who's only watched a video about driving?

Of course not, that's insane.

The flood of lay-offs at startups should serve as a siren call.

Ridiculous hiring sprints & flimsy growth papers over cracks.

Cracks become chasms without a strong culture.

We need more Living Companies: What's going on now reminds me of the work of Arie de Gues.

He was a Dutch business executive and theorist.

While working at Royal Dutch Shell, he and his team wanted to learn from companies that were older than Shell (100 years or more).

The best online education comes from entrepreneurs.

At the same time, companies are facing a massive talent shortage.

What can companies learn from creators on how to transform people?
What can creators learn from companies on how to meet their needs? That's the premise of our Learning Culture Summit on May 19 & 20.

Save your spot to learn from the best on both sides of the aisle.
curiouslionlearning.com/summit/

How @stripe Thinks Like a Civilization 🧵: @stripe The Collison brothers founded Stripe in 2009.

John was 19. Patrick, 21.

As of May 2021, the billionaire Irishmen employ 4,000+ people.

Stripe is a culture created entirely from scratch.

How to approach mastery of your craft in 8 tweets 🧵: Build Small Habits.

➢ We all know it's hard to establish a good exercise routine.
➢ I used to find it hard to work out as often and intense as I wanted.
➢ I looked at it as a binary: either I exercise or I don't.
➢ I couldn't figure out how to make it a habit.

Online courses are transforming the learning experience.

Check out my conversation with John Ainsworth on The Art of Selling Online Courses Podcast!

.@DataDrivenMedia and I spoke about:

➢ My 8-week course launch experience
➢ Post-pandemic online course industry
➢ 3P’s of transformational online courses
➢ Self-paced courses vs. cohorts
➢ And more!

I ran an online course on how to create an online course.

150 Students. $350K+ in revenue. $40K+ in scholarships.

This VISUAL 🧵contains 8 of the lessons I shared: 1/8 Credibility

When is learning possible?

Wisdom from Krishnamurti ⤳ To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind.

New episode of How Did You Learn That!

Author, Ship 30 for 30 Founder, and Category Pirate Nicolas Cole is a veteran category designer.

.@Nicolascole77 and I discussed all things Category Design.

Check it out 🎙️🔗👇 @Nicolascole77 You’ll learn about:

➢ Creating new categories and redesigning old ones
➢ The magic triangle, the nine levers, and the category design scorecard
➢ Examples illustrating points Cole, Eddie, and Christopher make in their writings
➢ How I am refining ideas for my category

.@teachable is a massive community of creators, earning millions of $$ from their courses.

I chatted with founder @ankurnagpal to find out

~ The 4 Things Top Creators Do Best ~ @teachable @ankurnagpal 1: Make supremely happy alumni who identify with the course experience

Alumni can assist with referrals, testimonials, and integrating new members.

They are also living evidence of a successful course.

New episode of How Did You Learn That!

Entrepreneur, CEO, and author Jack Murray knows how to spin a yarn.

.@mediamurray and I sat down for a chat about Storytelling for Business

Check it out 🎙️🔗👇 You’ll learn about:

➢ The “Magic Slice” - where company mission and audience interests meet
➢ Storytelling as compelling communication
➢ Common business communication mistakes
➢ Flow and its relation to creativity
➢ The present as the golden age of storytelling

I'm obsessed with learning.

Whether it's from the conversations with others, books, online courses, or podcasts

I can't get enough of it.

That's why I've enjoyed hosting my podcast, How Did You Learn That, for the past 13 months. If you're looking for some interesting conversations to tune into over the holidays, then might I recommend a few of these episodes I've done with amazing people like...

Yāna and Upāya

Two powerful concepts in Buddhism with so much to teach course creators

🎓🧘‍♀️🧵 Yāna (Sanskrit: "vehicle")

This is a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism.

This is your course.

.@teachable as a business makes $10M+ in annual recurring revenue.

Safe to say @ankurnagpal knows a thing or two about how to run an online business.

Here are 7 things I learned from him on

The Future of Online Course Businesses: 1: Individualization

➢ People don’t always want to learn from the number 1 ranked teacher.
➢ The best teacher is the one with whom the student makes a connection.
➢ It is not necessarily the “best” teacher in the space.

5 common misconceptions about Course Communities (from @jayclouse) ➢ ONE

“Community” as an ancillary benefit might work,
but probably not.

If your course touts a top-shelf community, it better deliver!

If community is truly an afterthought, your top of funnel should focus on course offerings.

What will top performers look like next year?

I believe they'll look like lifelong learners.

But what does this mean in the context of work? The top performers in 2022 will be guided by a personal sense of purpose.

They’ll welcome current reality for what it is, an ally not an enemy.

They’ll be deeply inquisitive and feel connected to others in a larger creative process.