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April 1 · Issue #46 · 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 April and welcome to the 46th issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️ Wow, last month flew by! I moved from the North to the South of Gran Canaria and have been enjoying the sunny and picturesque town of Mogán. Highlights included a dolphin spotting boat trip and visiting Anfi Beach resort. The resort was created by a Norwegian billionaire that had the vision to import perfect sand from the Caribbean! 🏖️
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Anfi Beach Club's man-made heart island 🏝️
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Most events in life can be categorized in one of two ways: a good time, or a good story. - Margot Leitman Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Dale Carnegie If we see someone throwing money away, we call that person crazy. Money has value. Wasting it seems nuts. And yet we see others, and ourselves, throw away something far more valuable every day: Time. - Shane Parrish
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives | Diamandis, Peter H., Kotler, Steven
“Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole.”
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Before decade’s end, it’s not ridiculous to assume that space-based forest fire–spotting AIs will be communicating with autonomous fire-fighting drones down here on Earth—or an early step toward the dematerialisation of emergency services.
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Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth: Doerr, John
“Measure What Matters is about using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a revolutionary approach to goal-setting, to make tough choices in business. In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs and with them at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from forty employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google.”
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Objectives and key results are the yin and yang of goal setting—principle and practice, vision and execution. Objectives are the stuff of inspiration and far horizons. Key results are more earthbound and metric-driven.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment | You're Wrong About
So it appears the most famous psychology studies are riddled with issues and key omissions! Digressions in this podcast include the Milgram obedience studies and a debunking of the “broken windows” theory of policing.
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#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation | The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Matt Ridley is the author of several books related to science and human progress, biologist, newspaper columnist and member of the House of Lords in the UK. Matt and Shane discuss writing books about science, the age-old battle between viruses and humans, rational optimism, the difference between innovation and invention, the role of trial and error and the effects of social media on seeing others’ points of view.
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#506: The Episode of Everything: Balaji | The Tim Ferriss Show
The Episode of Everything: Balaji on Bitcoin and Ethereum, Media Self-Defense, Drone Warfare, Crypto Oracles, India as Dark Horse, The Pseudonymous Economy, Beautiful Trouble, Ramanujan, Life Extension, and More
“If code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.” — Balaji Srinivasan
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MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia | Technology to animate the faces in still family photos
This free video re-enactment tool animates the faces in still photos and creates high-quality, realistic video footage.
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100 Rules — Personal Philosophy - Dru Riley
It’s no secret I love a good list of life learnings, principles and philosophies. This list of 100 focuses on business, productivity, courage, stress, success, relationships and more. My favourites include: 18. “Consensus is regression to the mean.” — Trying to appease everyone takes you nowhere. 59. “The most important part of business is the market. It’s easier to ride a wave than it is to make one.” — A good team won’t survive a bad market. A good product won’t survive a bad market. A bad team with a bad product can survive in a good market.
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1min Readwise.io Video Tutorial
How often do you read a book but fail to remember the key ideas weeks or even days later? Readwise has solved this problem for me and dramatically enhanced my reading habit in the process. I rave about using Readwise to help me retain what I read but words don’t do it justice! If you wish you could rapidly retrieve content you read then watch this short tutorial. Kudos to Claudia for the video! 📹
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