Once a month, I curate the best links on how to find work that you love, be excellent at what you do, and unlock any door that stands in your way. Here is the link round-up for October.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
• Puppetry Artist and Director. An Inorganic Chemist tackling climate change using nanowire photonics. These are just two of the 24 amazing and inspiring 2015 MacArthur Fellows.
• New to San Francisco? Check out this healthy city guide and learn all the best places to exercise, get healthy food, and get that much-needed massage. Live in Chicago, Boston, New York or Los Angeles? There are guides for those cities, too!
• Have you ever wished that you could wave a magic wand and get all your questions and research needs answered? Now you can. Check out Ask Wonder. Detailed answers and resources delivered to your inbox!
• While the tech world can certainly use more women at the helm, there are some amazing women bucking the male trend in Silicon Valley and rocking it! Check out these 15 female founders building amazing tech companies.
• All women owe a debt of gratitude to these 15 women who have created and defined contemporary American culture.

• There are 62 million girls around the world are denied the right to an education. Michelle Obama wants to make them visible. Add your photo to the yearbook and your voice and support.
• Refined sugar is a drug. Giving it up can clear your brain and unleash untold stores of energy. Try it for 2 weeks and see what happens.
• Suleika Jaquad is one of my heroes. Her beautiful life was interrupted in the prime of her youth. Now she is trying to make sense of it all. Here’s her 100 day project.
• I love stories and obituaries are no exception. Here’s a peek into what happens when death comes and the obituary follows.
• Really? Nude women plastered all over the subways are ok but not women’s underwear?
• If I could do it all over again, I would be Terry Gross. An in-depth look at the amazing woman that has perfected the art of the interview.
• How many times every day do you misplace your phone, keys, and well, anything. Finally, an app that will save you hours of searching each week.
• I’ll admit it. I was a Barbie fan girl in my younger days. Now Barbie is trying to project a new image, telling girls they can be or do anything. Great message — but the new ad is not without its detractors.
• Have you read Lena Dunham and Jennie Konner’s new newsletter – Lenny? Just a few months in- they already have 160,000 subscribers and big plans for the future.

• Silicon Valley suffers from a dearth of women and people of color. And also this. Where are all the old people in Silicon Valley?
• Love what you are doing but also starting to feel the winds of change? What to do? Alex Franzen suggests you ask yourself — What if Your Job Didn’t Exist?
Find great work. Do great work. Unlock every door in your way.
Image: Willie Franklin.