Happy Tuesday,

If you’re new, welcome to Stay Curious — a short and juicy newsletter where I share what’s keeping me curious in the world of life, tech and startups.

It’s 8 pm. I just wrapped a 21 KM run. And I’m 3/3 this week starting my morning off with a warm croissant. But hey, who’s counting? 🥐

Also — we just passed 1,000+ RSVPs for our pitch event with Andrew Wilkinson from Tiny and Michele Romanow from CBC Dragon’s Den tomorrow. And I’m pretty jazzed about it. If you wanna pull through for a visit, it’d make my day.

Enough plugging of events, let’s get to the goods.

👀 Founder I’m watching: Naval Ravikant

Meet Naval: the co-founder + former CEO of AngelList. (The LinkedIn of the VC world).

He’s also an early investor in 200+ co’s you’d like like Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Notion etc.

The TL;DR? He knows his stuff. And he just launcehd his latest project. It’s called Airchat.

I tested it out, and I’ve been loving it. It’s like Twitter + Podcasts. If you’re on there, say hi. If you want an invite, drop me a reply.

I’ll pick someone @ random tomorrow morning while I’m feasting on my next JJ bean croissant

⚙️ Framework I’m using: Sending Free PDF versions of books to my Kindle

Sick of buying books? I get it. I’ve been there. If you have a Kindle, you need to pause your spotify discovery weekly and read this slowly.

• A lot of great books are online for free in PDF version

• All you have to do is Google the title (Harry Potter 1 free PDF)

• click one of the links, download the PDF

• send it to your kindle

• badda bing, badda boom,

• you’re laughing (and putting the money you were spending on books, back into cortados and croissants, a way smarter investment as Tony Robbins once said)

P.S. Naval’s book which love (called the Almanack of Naval) has a Free PDF link here if you wanna scroll it on your iPad, phone or Kindle.

🛠 Quote I’m Loving

I got this nice text from a friend named James the other day. And it made me think. James Clear has a point here. If we —

• have a 9/10 attitude

• ask good questions

• engage daily

There’s a hell of a lot more luck surface out there for finding opportunities (a good job, a fun date, a unique friend etc,.

I’ll leave you with this:

I’m pro hard work. But I’m also pro-curiosity.

I find most people often forget about the 2nd one, while over-indexing on the 1st.

If you read this far, thanks for being a wonderful human. Let me know which one was your fav.

Food is my #1 love language but feedback is my 2nd.

Stay curious,

Joel (aka the guy who’s now addicted to Airchat)

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