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December 22 · Issue #42 · View online
A short monthly newsletter packed with awesome new discoveries and personal recommendations!
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Happy holidays and welcome to the very best of ‘How Curious!’ in 2020 ✌️ This special edition reflects on my favourite Quotes, Tech, Podcasts, and Books shared throughout 2020. 3️⃣🏆 If you enjoy it, please take a brief moment to forward this newsletter to one person you think may also like receiving the monthly mail! 💌🎄
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein Happiness is the acceptance of the journey as it is now, not the promise of the other shore. - Mike Carter
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Airr (iOS only for now) - Highlight & share the best moments from podcasts.
Airr is a podcast app that lets you highlight and share moments from episodes. When I hear an insightful moment in a podcast I can now save a short audio clip by triple tapping my airpods. The app sends my saved highlights, the podcast transcript and any notes I add to Readwise.
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Narro - Convert articles, pdfs & videos to a podcast
Narro is a text to speech tool which converts web articles, pdfs, youtube videos and more into a podcast. The AI voices which narrate the text are more than suitable for the short articles I listen too. This is a great way to listen to text or video content as a podcast in your favourite podcast player!
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Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions with Mental Models
Mental models are decision making tools that guide our perception of the world and our behaviour in it. They help us understand life, make decisions and solve problems. This book gives a great overview of the most common and useful mental models. When you don’t use mental models, strategic thinking is like using addition when multiplication is available to you. Politician Rahm Emanuel offers this perspective: “You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
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Sum: Tales from the Afterlives - Eagleman, David
Quirky book of short tales which explore 40 different versions of what the afterlife is like. Amusing and profound! There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. People come to discover that the end of death is the death of motivation. Too much life, it turns out, is the opiate of the masses. There is a noticeable decline in accomplishment. People take more naps. There’s no great rush.
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Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers is one of my all-time favourite authors and podcast guests. All his short books are amazing, with “Hell Yeah or No” being one of two released this year. We shouldn’t preserve our first opinions as if they reflect our pure, untarnished, true nature. They’re often just the result of inexperience or a temporary phase. Old opinions shouldn’t define who we are in the future. The adding mindset is deeply ingrained. It’s easy to think I need something else. It’s hard to look instead at what to remove.
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View my digital bookshelf here and my 11,500+ book highlights here.
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#444: Hugh Jackman - The Tim Ferriss Show
Hugh Jackman on best decisions, daily routines, the 85% rule, favorite exercises, mind training, and much more. Hugh comes across as one of the most genuine and likeable guests I’ve ever heard on a podcast!
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reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn - How I Built This with Guy Raz | Breaker
In 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yahoo’s biggest problems: automated bots were signing up for millions of free Yahoo email accounts, and generating tons of spam. Luis’ idea to solve this problem became CAPTCHA, the squiggly letters we type into a website to prove we’re human. He gave away that idea for free, but years later, that same idea had evolved into a new way to monetize language learning on the web, and became Duolingo. Today, the popular app is valued at $1.5 billion, and is seeing a big spike in growth while people are confined to their homes.
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The Spreadsheet of Life and Death - Cautionary Tales | Breaker
Clive had a deadly form of cancer, but fortunately there was a new drug to treat it. Imagine his anger when he was told the treatment was too expensive. He’d entered a world where unique human lives are given a value in a mathematical formula. So how much should we spend to extend or save a life? And are some lives worth more than others?
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My 30 Life Enhancing Learnings
30 learnings that I’ve picked from my three decades on this planet. #4 and and #19 are particularly apt for the events of 2020! #4 Life is far more random than we appreciate. Chance plays a huge role in determining our life’s trajectory.
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Free Illustrations | unDraw
Huge selection of free illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create. Create beautiful websites, products and powerpoint images with your colour of choice.
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Honey - Automatic Coupons, Promo Codes, and Deals
Honey is a browser extension that automatically finds and applies coupon codes at checkout with a single click.
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My Quarantine Routine
I just wanted to share what works for me. This is just to give me structure and a sense of stability
9 am - 2 am: wake up & stare at my phone
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#29 How Curious! - Best of 2019
Enjoyed the best of 2020, but crave more great content? Check out the Best of 2019 to satisfy that curiosity!
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