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If life feels difficult right now, that's because it is. Raising kids is hard and it is important that you find the time to connect with your partner, and for both of you to get alone time to relax and recharge. Talk to each other about your struggles. If you can afford it, get a baby sitter, invite grandparents to help. Make time for yourselves to spend time together.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

Tony tells Belinda that there is a senior company event at their chairman's house. He also tells her to wear tennis gear because it's casual. Here's the catch: he tells her not to wear any undergarments.

When you make a carbon copy, the copy is actually imperfect. The letters in DNA that are being passed down are not the same, but like a sampling of the DNA of our ancestors.

Previously, large news networks like CCN and Fox have been the narrative-makers. They would curate and create content, shaping the mindset of their audiences. Their positions were often defined long before the facts of the matter were known. We now have the individual power to compete with these networks and to unearth the truth on our own.

Dan Mall is currently working on SuperBooked, a CRM that mimics his long-running Google Doc in which he was tracking friends and acquaintances for partnerships on SuperFriendly projects. Eventually SuperBooked should be able to help anyone find just the right person, however unusual the project.

Hiten Shah surveyed 400+ remote employees and found out that even though mostly everyone loves remote, it comes with some challenges.

Check out the Remote Work Report and learn more.

YouTube was a hot startup at the time, and everyone wanted to be the "YouTube of X," much like in the 2010s everyone wants to be "Uber for Y."

Seeing that viewing documents in the browser was a huge pain, Tikhon and co started Scribd, a "YouTube for documents."

At the time, even in Silicon Valley, there was no environment where one could raise money and start a company, and any available money was carefully restricted in terms of what you were allowed to invest in.

Meanwhile, Stanford and Berkley, these universities became sources of people interested and capable in technology, and the universities were wonderfully funded. So it was a perfect environment for technology startups, from that point of view.

You are responsible. If something happened that you want to change, don't be reactive and don't finger-point! Use your own resourcefulness and initiative to make things happen.

Brandon asks Ryan about the strategies he is using to source startups Epic is consulting.