Kickigai: Summer Roundup

Kids are returning to school, shops started selling Halloween-themed goods and I did not receive an OOO reply in a few days.

Summer is over.

And it’s time to get ready for the last sprint of 2023.

It’s also time to recap the summer highlights.

For Kickigai, this past summer meant (re)launching a newsletter with 11 career posts and 7 deep dives in health & bio while reviewing and sharing 55 scientific articles and 80+ startup funding rounds.

Thank you for being part of this journey!

Here is a recap of the content that you liked the most:

Summer Content Roundup

Most loved articles

SERIES: How to build a startup career

1. Should you work at a startup?

2. How to find the right startup to join

3. How to join a startup

4. How to excel at a startup

5. Why you should leave a startup

SERIES: Venture Capital

1. Life of a Venture Capital deal

2. Should you work in Venture Capital?

Sharing is caring!

If you enjoyed any of these articles, please consider sharing this issue with a few friends who might find it useful.

Most-read scientific articles

• Mitigating bias in AI at the point of care (Science)

• Small molecule targeting of transcription-replication conflict for selective chemotherapy (Cell)

• AlphaFlow: autonomous discovery and optimization of multi-step chemistry using a self-driven fluidic lab guided by reinforcement learning (Nature)

• Sex shapes cell-type-specific transcriptional signatures of stress exposure in the mouse hypothalamus (Cell)

Bonus resources

3 juicy non-scientific articles for making this far into the roundup.

Devote yourself to the cause of your life - Evan Armstrong

Being a glorified intellectual butler pays the bills (and buys Lululemon shoes) in exchange for working on empty slides and spreadsheets that strike the founder’s ego. What if there is a more expansive way to work on the cause of your life, instead of running away from miserable work?!

→ Read the article

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber

Why there is almost no demand for poets but infinite demand for corporate lawyers?! Money is what you get for providing value and because value is subjective, people with money decide what’s valuable to them (in this case, an army of corporate lawyers). Many people go where the money is, others do not.

→ Read the article

Proof You Can Do Hard Things - Nat Eliason

Why do we learn Calculus or Latin in school? Most people say it’s because it teaches kids how to think through complex problems. That might be true but Nat’s reason stroke an even bigger cord: proving to yourself that you can do hard things. This is an incredibly powerful gift to your future self.

→ Read the article

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