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Charging Cables, Apple, Being a Bifurcator, Flywheel Concept & Company of One - Issue #1

Charging Cables, Apple, Being a Bifurcator, Flywheel Concept & Company of One - Issue #1
By Sahil Parikh • Issue #1 • View online
Hi there,
I am planning to start a weekly personal newsletter - since I come across amazing stuff on the Internet on tech, biz & life that I would like to share with other. This is the first one I am sending out to only few people - think of it as an experiment. Please let me know what you think - are the articles interesting?
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This week one of my colleagues posted a rather interesting article on tech security on our Slack channel - I didn’t know charging cables could be used this way! In addition, there are a few really good articles I came across on why we have already reached peak smartphones, are you a bifurcator who manages a day job, and what can you do when you are not seeing many visitors to your website (hint: wait). In addition, I read this fantastic book called Company of One a few months back and thought I’d recommend it to others as well.
Have a great week!
SP
@sahilparikh

Norgard
People buy stories not products.
We’ve all been there. Your smartphone or tablet is low on power and you’ve left your charging cable at home. There’s no harm in borrowing one from a fellow passenger in the airport departure lounge or from your hotel’s front desk clerk, right?
www.forbes.com  •  Share
Apple, services and moats
Apple, services and moats
Apple announced another phone, but pretty much all phones are great now, and most of the dramatic innovation is behind us as the market matures.
www.ben-evans.com  •  Share
Don’t quit your day job: the benefits of being a ‘bifurcator’
Don’t quit your day job: the benefits of being a ‘bifurcator’
Don’t throw in the day job to follow your dream. Join the bifurcators who juggle work-for-pay and their work-for-love
aeon.co  •  Share
The flywheel of wealth (and the importance of patience)
The flywheel of wealth (and the importance of patience)
Most young entrepreneurs experience the flywheel. The new realtor struggles to get her first sale. The second sale is just as hard. So is the tenth. As she struggles, she watches long-time realtors get new clients with ease.
An online entrepreneur struggles to get visitors to his new website. He publishes great content, yet watches as long-established websites, even those with lesser quality content, get gobs of visitors.
www.getrichslowly.org  •  Share
Book: Company of One
My thoughts
This book is an encouragement to all the other entrepreneurs who want to remain small yet profitable — we can choose to design our work around our life!
www.sahilparikh.com  •  Share
Kindle Highlight of the Week
“Society has ingrained in us a very particular idea of what success in business looks like. You work as many hours as possible, and when your business starts to do well, you scale everything up in every direction. To this day, this strategy is considered what it takes to be a success in business — solving problems by adding “more” to the solution. Anyone who stays small, in this line of thinking, hasn’t done well enough to add “more” to the mix. But what if we challenge this way of thinking in business? What if staying small is what a company does when it’s figured out how to solve problems without adding “more” to them?”
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
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