Week 58 - Tell me what you think 🤓

Author

Yurii Lazaruk
April 19, 2026

Hey my friend, today I’m here not to give, but ask 😲😏

I write this newsletter because I truly believe connections shape everything—your work, your life, even your happiness (don’t trust just me here, trust Harvard 😉).

And I think it’s quite useful.

But the question I constantly have on my mind:
Is this actually helping you build better relationships?

So I don’t want to just think it’s useful. I want to know it for sure!

And if not, I’d love to find what to improve, and actually improve it!

So I made a super short (3 min) anonymous survey, and please take it here 👇

Your honest answer (even not the sweetest one) will help me improve it for you 🤗

So yeah, that’s it for this week, and if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas, or personal examples of how to build better human connections, please answer this email, or connect with me on LinkedIn, and let’s talk 🤗🤓

💡 What influenced me this week 💡

Thoughts of the week:

  • “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” - Arnold Toynbee, The Economist’s daily quotes

  • “Build a welcome sequence that tells your origin story — across multiple emails, from multiple perspectives. It's a deliberate strategy to get readers emotionally invested before the novelty of a new subscription wears off. People are less likely to unsubscribe from a publication when they feel connected to the creators.” - Creator Spotlight Newsletter

  • “When I worked at YouTube, everyone would say it's not the algorithm, it's the audience. Whatever's performing well is a reflection of what humans are generally interested in. We're all kind of moving together, creating and reacting together." - Hayley Rose, Creator Spotlight Newsletter

  • “Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.” - Benjamin Franklin, The Economist’s daily quotes

  • “As we go forward, we may need to build some humanity into Al. We may have to see it making mistakes and correcting itself in order that we warm to it.” - Richard Wiseman, Nudge podcast

Song of the week:

Book and quotes of the week:

“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do.”

“The deepest urge in human nature is ‘the desire to be important.”

“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.”

Tools that I use with referrals:

  • Descript - for anything around podcasting and video editing

  • Beehiiv - for a newsletter (that’s what you receive 😅)

  • Text Blaze - to access message templates with shortcuts (like “/ty”)

  • Exali - promo “FROMYURII” - indemnity insurance for independent experts in Europe

  • Manus - for building complex systems and projects

Daily actions:

  • tell 1 person what I’m thankful to them for

  • read a self-development book/listen to a professional podcast for 15 minutes

  • make a valuable post/comment on LinkedIn

  • tag 15 people in my connections database

  • connect with 30 interesting people on LinkedIn

  • invite 5 people to join the 👋Friendworking newsletter

Weekly actions:

  • transcribe one new episode of the Creator Spotlight and Personal IPO (bi-weekly) podcasts, learn something from them, and connect with guests on LinkedIn

  • connect 2 people who I believe need to be connected

  • invite 30 people to follow the Community ROI podcast (and ask for some feedback).

If you have any thoughts, ideas, or questions, please 👇

And if you’d like to have more 👋 Friendworking in your life 👇

See you next week! 👋