Happy September and welcome to the 25th issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️ August was great, and peaked with
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September 2 · Issue #25 · View online
A short monthly newsletter packed with awesome new discoveries and personal recommendations!
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Happy September and welcome to the 25th issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️ August was great, and peaked with a phenomenal trip to Tel Aviv & Jerusalem for a friend’s wedding. My first Jewish wedding lived up to the hype! Israel is a fascinating country and it was amazing to explore one of the world’s most religiously significant locations. 🇮🇱💒 This month I’m gearing up for a 5 week trip to Japan for the Rugby World Cup. We’ll be visiting most of the country, so please do let me know of any stand-out experiences I should include in the itinerary! 🇯🇵🏉
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To do two things at once is to do neither. - Publilius Syrus If you want it done, then go. If not, then send. - Napoleon Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way. – Jason Fried
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Thoughts, learnings and interests
Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you - Austin Kleon
Sharing my habits, principles and goals helps me to integrate them into daily life. This newsletter focuses on bite-sized content, so I’ve created a simple personal website to surface and share a broader variety of thoughts and longer content. The site is a continual work-in-progress. Please let me know if anything resonates with you!
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Founders - #71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters. All of them.
Listen to the highlights from all Amazon’s annual shareholder letters. The vision and foresight of Jeff Bezos from the very start is incredible! This podcast is packed with nuggets of wisdom.
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How I Built This with Guy Raz - Peloton: John Foley
John Foley started climbing the rungs of the corporate ladder at a young age. Still, at 40, he couldn’t climb out of bed fast enough to make it to his favourite spin class. John couldn’t understand why there wasn’t a way to bring the intensity and motivation of a boutique fitness class into the home. Having never worked in the exercise industry, he teamed up with a few friends to create a high-tech stationary bicycle called the Peloton Bike. Today, Peloton has sold close to half a million bikes, with a valuation as high as 4 billion dollars.
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Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Deep Work
When your phone buzzes or a notification pops up your screen, do you stop what you’re doing to look and respond? That’s what many of us are doing. Even though we think we should be less distracted by technology, we haven’t admitted the true cost of these interruptions. This podcast considers ways we can all immerse ourselves in more meaningful work.
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Money - A User's Guide: Laura Whateley (8/10)
Simple and practical financial advice. As someone who has recently moved to London the explanations of ISAs, LISAs and other UK specific financial schemes were particularly helpful. Interesting UK VAT anomaly: you do not pay VAT on cold takeaway food, such as sandwiches, but you do pay VAT on cold food like sandwiches that are eaten in, which is why you have to pay more to eat in in Pret!
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The Money Revolution - Easy Ways to Manage Your Finances in a Digital World: Anne Boden (7/10)
The CEO of Starling Bank explores the current FinTech landscape. The book outlines the main apps and digital tools available to help manage your finances. If you work in FinTech then get on this one.
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Next up on the reading list: View my digital bookshelf here & full reading list here.
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Our Guide to Daily Life | Pattern Brands
This short guide features 10 practical ways to set up each day for presence, quality time, and enjoyment.
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Moneyness: Starbucks, monetary superpower
Starbucks has around $1.6 billion in stored value card liabilities outstanding. This represents the sum of all physical gift cards held in customer’s wallets as well as the digital value of electronic balances held in the Starbucks Mobile App. These balances simultaneously function as an interest free loan to Starbucks!
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I’m fortunate to have some incredibly intelligent and interesting friends. My friend Dan’s recent extensive PR campaign for his wedding ensured an extra special Xperience for all delegates. Looking for inspiration? See below for links to the website, videos, social media accounts, podcast, ebook, delegate Xperience program, guest relations team and more!
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DanandHan.Wedding | Jerusalem #danhanwedding
The OFFICIAL website for the wedding of Daniel Rosehill and Hannah Schneiderman, taking place in Jerusalem this summer. #weddingofthecentury #danhanwedding
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Daniel Hannah Wedding (@danandhanwedding)
The OFFICIAL Insta a/c of DanAndHan.Wedding.
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Ever wondered what life was like before mobile phones? Whilst in Jerusalem we were lucky to spend Shabbat with Jewish friends. On the day of rest many Jews do not use their mobiles, drive, use electricity or even write. “Work” is forbidden on the Sabbath, which includes creating sparks or fires. In recent times, this has been extrapolated to also cover the operation of electrical equipment! It was intriguing to see the preparation for Shabbat. This included detailed planning for meet-ups, writing out of directions and ensuring any lights needed were turned on in advance! There are some interesting hacks, including lifts which operate in “Shabbat mode”, operating automatically and stopping at every floor so that Jews can avoid operating an electrical switch. 🤯
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Exploring Jerusalem
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