Lessons From My 20s
I'm turning 30 on Thursday. It's true. I've been a bit of a workaholic this past decade. I'm driven by an intense desire to help create a better world in the future than the one we have today--a world that is more sustainable, abundant, and joyous. And I'm excited about the decades ahead as Millennials begin to take leadership globally and the connected world fully emerges.
For my birthday this year, I took time for some serious reflection over the past few weekends. I ended up with a 1284 slide presentation on everything I learned in my twenties about life, entrepreneurship, and making a difference in world. I'm calling the presentation "Lessons From My 20s" and am sharing it freely with anyone who may be interested.
In the presentation is everything I learned building iContact in North Carolina and Connect and Hive in San Francisco and while at Harvard Business School.
You can download the full slide deck at http://hive.org/20s/
Please feel free to pass on the link to your friends or anyone who may benefit from it, especially if they are interesting in making a positive difference in the world.
Part 1 on "Life" has 566 slides covering the following topics:
Goals
Purpose
Vision
Networks
Mentors
Happiness
Health
Meditation
Habits
Communication
Money
Investing
Love
Values
Life Lessons
Part 2 on "Entrepreneurship" has 449 slides covering:
The Big Opportunities
Leadership
Business Planning
Product Development
Innovation
Venture Capital
Marketing
Building Systems
Building a Team
Strategy & execution
Steps to Get Started
And finally, part 3 on "The World" has 269 slides covering:
Human Rights
Human Progress
Systems Thinking
World 2050
Millennials
Climate Change
The Innovation Age
Staying in Touch
Thanks for checking out the deck! If you have any thoughts or questions feel free to ping me anytime on [email protected].
Here's to working together to create a more connected and compassionate world in the decades ahead.
Best,
Ryan
The deck is good. +1
I'll be viewing this tonight, thanks!
It doesn't download on my phone. That should be on slide 1285 on lessons learned: Mobile is the new new thing.
Only 269 slides in Part 3? Tch tch... someone dropped the ball.
That is crazy. How long did that take you to make? I'd guess your goal is to sell it/make money off it some how? Did you do that by yourself?
Wow. This is very extensive. I will take a look!
You mistakenly cut the fifth of Benjamin Franklin's thirteen virtues.
Revise: Write down the 10 most important Values to you?
Overall this is poorly constructed and trite.
$170MM. Life must be good! Great slide deck! However, the slide on which you state "Don't use more than 15 words" has 16.
Thanks for sharing!
Wish I had a silver banana to give you. As someone who just entered their 20s, this was very informative.
This is getting some press
http://valleywag.gawker.com/startup-ceo-offers-1-284-slides-in-the-most…
I just went over the first part, useful exercises. Thanks for sharing!
Mostly very good, thanks for sharing.
The 'life' stuff though is utter nonsense though, it reads more like propaganda. Medicine and electricity are not human rights. It is not my or my countries job to move away from fossil fuels. If there were only 1 billion people on Earth we could all do as we please.
The biggest issue the for the West is the declining quality of the population in Western countries. Too much obesity, too much depression, and most of all, too many socially inept kids who will become socially inept, miserable adults.
I think the format is solid but the save the world stuff is a bit ambitious. I think you can generally take the stuff he says but apply it to more selfish goals, replace "save the children" with "buy a porsche" and imo it'll be useful regardless.
I meant the "world" stuff, not "life".
Also on businessinsider already. Can't post a link.
I guess I'm going to burning man, thanks Ryan!
You're on Business Insider. Congrats.
The slideshow looks amazing from the bits I have viewed thus far and this weekend I will certainly be thoroughly looking through it for nuggets of wisdom.
largest pitchbook ever)
Thanks for recycling every business leadership book written in the past 50 years.
From someone in their early 20s, thanks for the advice! Awesome read, ER...presentation.
Nice, will be reading this this weekend.
Just printed goals and framed them. Sitting on my desk.
SB for you friendo. I opened this deck cynically thinking (what the hell could he have to say in a 1,000+ page powerpoint?" I expected navel gazing nonsense but it's all great.
The section on entrepreneurship is excellent.
Awesome. Checking here.
thank you for sharing with us. I'm in my mid 20s and longing for advices from seniors.
Bookmarked. I'll check it out this week.
Great upload, will have a more indepth look at it next weekend.
Thanks for sharing! Very helpful book, though I felt I would like it better if more letters are put into in lower cases.
Great job, will get a look ASAP.
Skimmed it.. very impressed.. but seriously 1200 slide deck? That must be a record.
Not sure if this is actually @RyanAllis or a wannabe posing as him lol...
Either way, like aforementioned, this slide show is getting a lot of press. If wondering about Allis, this guy has been working on startups for the last ten years and sold his most recent one (iContact) for 169 million. As I understand, he's worth about 40 million. This guy has been pretty successful and definitely a workaholic. Like I said, I don't know if this is actually him, but if it is that's really cool. Thanks for participating in this community if it is you.
pretty sure it's him. he's posted a few blogs here before on his experience at HBS. apparently the user base has gotten much nicer because he got absolutely flamed before.
sure it's easy to hate on this guy, you could say he's cocky, narcissistic, whatever, but he's trying to share insights with others for free (not for profit as far as I can tell) and he's very charitably inclined. power to you bro.
by the way, he's a Heels fan, so that's a plus.
I am going to need you to turn this for changes by tomorrow morning first thing, you seem to have capacity.
Thanks
Here's something I learned from my 20s: take yourself less seriously.
People seem to give advice because they discovered a few things that seem to work for them, and then think those same lessons might be generally applicable to the masses. That's not always true, though (especially when it's shaded by your world view).
The hubris that goes into a deck like this is mind-boggling. I salute you, sir, for being an even more deluded narcissist than me.
It's well known at HBS that Ryan Allis is a self promoting douche. I'm actually not surprised that he did this.
Paging @mbavsmfin You are going to love this!!
Sounds like OP has yet to be exposed to post-modernism. I do like the John Rawls mention.
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