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Alex Newsletter: on Leadership, duplication, harsh lessons from Ido Portal and Jack Ma

Happy Tuesday!

Here are seven essays I wrote recently. On life, learning, mastery, and capoeira.

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Fresh post: Jack Maโ€™s socks

I used to work at Alibaba, a Chinese and multinational technology conglomerate, for a few years. The founder of the company, Jack Ma, was somewhat of a legend. There was no cult of Jack Ma inside the company, but a high level of respect and appreciation. A lot of stories were passed from mouth to mouth about the โ€˜labors of Chief Ma,โ€™ or Teacher Ma, as we would call him back then. And one of the stories was about his socksโ€ฆ

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Other posts last week

  • โ€‹Lessons from Ido Portal – on integrity, professionalism, and excuses. Beware, harsh language is ahead!
  • โ€‹Identities – how identities can help you or drown you.
  • โ€‹Placebo & Nocebo effects and how to use them smartly.
  • โ€‹Stress is good for your health if you believe itโ€™s good for you (scientific research).
  • โ€‹On Leadership – capoeira community as a disguised leadership academy.
  • โ€‹Duplication – more interesting question and challenge for a leader is: how to pass the baton of leadership to a new runner? How can we pass on all the stuff we learned in a half-time to the next generation? Even if you do not consider your self a leader, try to read through and understand what is on the other side.

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Until next week,

Alex Maltsev
โ€‹Digital Creator, capoeira teacher, proud father