🎉Hey friend! Welcome to The Growth Bulletin, a weekly newsletter with curated links to amazing articles, books, music and tech to make your life better.

📰 articles & news

The psychology of revenge bedtime procrastination - In 2020, Daphne K. Lee described revenge bedtime procrastination as “a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours.”

The term emerged from Chinese (報復性熬夜), possibly because of the brutal 996 working hour system practiced by some companies in China, where employees are required to work from 9am to 9pm, six days per week, totalling 72 hours per week.

A very real threat to your health, and I've been experiencing it, taking consious efforts to pick up the Kindle Paperwhite instead of my phone and binge-watching PrimeVideo.

Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers: 6 Practices for Working Clean - Chefs use mise-en-place – a philosophy and mindset embodied in a set of practical techniques – as an “external brain.” It gives them a way to externalize their thinking into their environment and automate the repetitive parts of cooking so they can focus completely on the creative parts.

All facets of mise-en-place can be distilled down to just two words: work clean. Clean as in efficient. Clean as in elegant. Clean as in direct. Clean as in without friction. Clean as in simple. Clean as in clear. Clean as in decisive. Clean as in powerful.

📚 book

The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

Looking to get into this one as I think about a Master's degree to pursue in the coming years.

🎵 music

Groundhog Day by Em Beihold

Can't stop listening to this one; such a relatable song in times when lockdown/curfew keeps you cooped up in your home.

🛠️ tech

Character 

We are a Dutch programmer, a Chinese designer and a German psychology expert, stuck in lock-down Berlin. We come from different industries and cultures but share humor, values and personality - just like you and the people we will match you with.
We hope to reconnect a world so broken, people are able to order groceries or a taxi to their door in minutes - but go years without a single close friend around.

The onboarding quiz was such a pleasure to go through, really looking forward to the matches that will come out of this.

That's it for this week folks! See you next week.