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October 1 · Issue #26 · View online
A short monthly newsletter packed with awesome new discoveries and personal recommendations! #Books #Podcasts #Tech #Humour #Psychology #BestOfTheWeb
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Happy October and welcome to the 26th issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️ September maintained the tourist activity frenzy, with punting in Cambridge, the Greenwich comedy festival and the Harry Potter play - a phenomenal production! Check out The Friday Forty for a chance to win great discounted seats each week. 🚣♂️🎭 Today I’m fresh off the plane in Japan to follow Ireland’s quest to win the Rugby World Cup over the next 5 weeks. This trip ticks two priority items off my bucket list - visit Japan and experience a World Cup. Expect next month’s newsletter to have a strong Japanese influence! 🇯🇵🇮🇪🏆
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Remember, you can’t be stuck in traffic; you are the traffic. - Kevin Slavin Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace. - Randy Armstrong 3 words, 2 meanings: “Avoid boring people.” - Jim Watson
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How I Built This with Guy Raz - Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
Andy Puddicombe is not your typical entrepreneur – in his early twenties, he gave away everything he owned to train as a Buddhist monk. But after ten years, he decided he wanted to bring the benefits of his meditation techniques to more people. While running a meditation clinic in London, Andy met Rich Pierson, who had burned out on his job at a high-powered London ad agency. Together, they founded Headspace in 2010. Nine years later, Headspace’s guided meditation app has users in 190 countries and an annual revenue of over $100 million.
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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish - #19 The Psychology of Advertising with Rory Sutherland
This info-packed and entertaining interview with Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, dive deeps on advertising, persuasion, and why humans do some of the silly things we do. This episode is so good I started reading Rory’s book Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense.
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The Daily - An Interview With Andrew Yang, an outsider to be the next US president
Andrew Yang, a former tech executive, remains one of the least known candidates in a Democratic presidential field that includes senators, mayors, a governor and a former vice president. But by focusing on the potential impact of automation on jobs, he has attracted surprisingly loyal and passionate support. I have minimal/no interest in politics but Andrew’s views on the impact of automation and the future of work were very interesting.
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There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years: Mike Berners-Lee (7/10)
This brought back distant memories of studying sustainability-related textbooks during my Energy Engineering undergraduate! Although it’s a little heavy on stats and graphs, it makes for a sobering read. My main takeaways:
- All attempts to curtail climate change have had a negligible impact on rising global emissions. We must do far more.
- A temperatures rise above 1.5°C may cause irreversible damage. We need to act immediately to prevent this.
- Consume less meat and dairy
- Leave fossil fuels in the ground
- Global co-operation is key. This will be extremely hard as abandoning fossil fuels will create winners and losers
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Next up on the reading list: View my digital bookshelf here & full reading list here. |
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Life is Short
Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times. And while it’s impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. If you had a handful of 8 peanuts, the quantity would definitely seem limited, no matter what your lifespan was. PS - Many of Paul Graham’s essays are awesome…prepare to get lost down this rabbit hole!
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Really Good Questions
A curated showcase on curiosity from Twitter’s brightest minds. Eg. What’s an overlooked subject that everyone should know more about? What advice do you have for your younger you?
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Compare Countries With This Simple Tool
Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! (Kudos to Dan for the find)
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Comprehensive and compact packing list
First shared 5 years ago(!), my packing list has been refined after visiting almost 40 countries, backpacking trips in Asia & Central America plus over a year living out of Airbnbs in London!
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3-2-1 Thursday Archive | James Clear
Every Thursday, James sends out his “3-2-1” newsletter with 3 ideas from him, 2 quotes from others, and 1 question for you. This is one of my favourite newsletters.
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Google Maps shortcut to download offline maps Typing ‘ ok maps’ into the search field downloads a map for offline use. Super useful prep before travelling to countries where you’ll be incur high roaming charges. (Surfaced on Recommendo) |
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