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Alan Frei's Newsletter: Olympic update, investor letter & inbox

🥌 Olympics:

In early November last year, our team secured second place, behind China, in the Division B of the Pan Continental Curling Championships in Kelowna. China, usually in Division A, was relegated last year to B due to their absence last year caused by COVID. So in 2024, without China, we aim to advance to Division A to play in the qualification tournament for the 2026 Olympics.

• Here is a great article about our team (in German): https://www.republik.ch/2023/11/18/vier-curler-zwei-laender-ein-traum

• Here what the World Curling Federation (WCF) wrote about us: https://worldcurling.org/2023/10/philippines-pccc/

• We are planning a documentary, here is our first trailer: https://youtu.be/iyjH4vzCwU8

🚀 Alan Frei Company (AFC):

As many of you know I founded a new company to build a community of life hackers, optimizers, and entrepreneurs, where I produce and share entertaining, educational content on optimization directly to consumer via social media. I’m developing urban travel goods for this community, including an efficient backpack (to be the fastest through security) or stylish jackets with way too many pockets and many more things :)

• Here you find in-depth what my plan is with the company: https://www.alanfrei.com/investor/letter

• If you are interested in becoming a shareholder of the Alan Frei Company you can invest very easy here (you can buy as little as one share for CHF 1.42 ): https://www.alanfrei.com/investor

👀 Watch:

• The AI revolution is at full speed. And it turns out that the makers of the movie «Her» were closer to reality than most movies. Be sure to watch it if you haven’t seen it yet or rewatch it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

• The new ChatGPT voice sounds very similar to Scarlett Johansson and this device might bring the hardware part of “Her” to reality: https://youtu.be/gMsQO5u7-NQ?si=BettrdNOhL3CzcAg

• Everyone is talking about AI. Therefore it is so interesting to look at technology that is not in the focus right now: I am 100% sure that VR/AR will have a huge impact. Especially with the anticipated launch of Apple’s Vision Pro next year. Check out this fascinating interview of Lex Friedman with Marc Zuckerberg in the Metaverse: https://youtu.be/EohIA7QPmmE?si=204BQz_w9xRmr5AF

• People underestimate great small talk. Here is a video on how to be better at small talk: https://youtu.be/IRG-YubP1rw?si=ZW8D4To0MvIt3WzA

🎧 Listen:

• Is accumulating money until we die really the right approach? This book takes a new perspective https://www.amazon.com/Die-Zero-Getting-Your-Money/dp/B089MFKS77?nodl=1&dplnkId=20db30bf-c484-4433-ba7a-4d04256ad27f

• Why doing something 10x is easier then 2x: https://www.amazon.com/10x-Easier-than-World-Class-Entrepreneurs/dp/B0C2J7P6JQ?nodl=1&dplnkId=bb665b05-c1f0-48d9-97cc-1f21c7415d4a

📕 Read (All available as audiobooks):

• "Going Infinite" by Michael Lewis chronicles Sam Bankman-Fried's rise and fall with the FTX cryptocurrency exchange: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/149105520

• The incredible story of Twitter / X: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18656827

⚒️ Tools / Hacks: 

• How to get to inbox zero with great tools and text replacements: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alan-frei_efficiency-hacks-activity-7114891924871733248-b2r9

• This is the smallest and best travel adapter: https://www.galaxus.ch/en/s1/product/minix-neo-p1-65-w-quick-charge-30-gan-technology-usb-chargers-14593752

🎪 Events

• We are hosting a Creator Conference in Zurich, and a Startup event in Baden AG, in Q1 2024. More information will follow.

• A3F (Alan's Friends and Founders Forum) is set for May 15th, 2024. Apply here: https://forms.gle/gFCF1K1xUXsotCwC9

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