🛹 TBSN #35 — Elon Musk buys Twitter
Welcome to another new edition of The Bright Student Newsletter! It’s packed with resources, tips, and opportunities to become a better student, as always.
This edition:
⌛ Elon Musk buys Twitter
🚀 Are you into coding?
🛠️ Tools recommendation: Office Lens
📘 Book recommendation: The Power of Habit
🎬 Movie recommendation: The Social Network
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⌛ Elon Musk buys Twitter
Elon Musk, known for SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and PayPal, is the new owner of Twitter.
On 25th Apr, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for approximately $44 billion
The announcement was met with a mixture of enthusiasm and confusion from the Twitter community, but it seems the deal will go through once Musk's team performs due diligence.
Let’s see in which direction he takes Twitter.
🚀 Are you into coding?
If coding interests you, how about making a simple BMI calculator using JavaScript?
Here’s a quick tutorial following which you can quickly create a BMI calculator that looks like the image above.
Click here to follow this 2-minutes tutorial
🛠️ Tools recommendation: Office Lens
Office Lens is an app that lets you scan documents, whiteboards, and notes with your phone camera and save them in your OneNote account.
This app is perfect for students because it helps them organize all their notes and documents easily. It also gives users the ability to store their scanned items on OneDrive, OneNote, or save them on your device in image or PDF format.
It’s one of the best document scanner apps out there.
📘 Book recommendation: The Power of Habit
Ever wondered what it is that makes habits so powerful? Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit explains the science behind habits and how they are formed, and then gives examples of how they can be changed.
Duhigg uses examples from his own life and others to explain how habits are formed. He explains the "habit loop," the basic three-part pattern that is involved in forming a habit: a cue, a routine, and a reward. Duhigg shows how this works by looking at his own habit of having chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. The cue is waking up hungry. The routine is eating the cookies. The reward is feeling satisfied. If you change one part of the habit loop, you can change all of them.
The author explains how habits change lives and entire organizations by looking at examples of individuals who were able to use their habits to get fit or lose weight, as well as corporations that were able to change their habits to succeed in business. In some cases, people's lives were transformed by changing bad habits, whereas other people were able to achieve great things by creating good habits and sticking with them.
🎬 Movie recommendation: The Social Network
Imagine being a kid with an idea so big it could change society forever. That's what you get to see in The Social Network, a movie about the creation of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student.
Zuckerberg invents Facebook at a time when social media was still in its infancy, and the impact of his creation is huge — changing the world for everyone, from friends who are able to keep in touch across states, to businesses that have a new platform to advertise and market their goods. Zuckerberg builds Facebook from the ground up and becomes one of the youngest billionaires ever.
This movie is a must-see for students because it shows how powerful an idea can be. It starts with Zuckerberg building Facebook in his dorm room as a way to connect with other students on campus but ends with him becoming one of the most successful entrepreneurs ever.
The story of how he achieves this success is fascinating — and often funny! — but it also gives us hope that we can do it too. Who knows? Maybe you'll even create your own social media site!
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