| |
|
|
May 4 · Issue #47 · View online
A short monthly newsletter packed with awesome new discoveries and personal recommendations! #Books #Podcasts #Tech #Humour #Psychology #BestOfTheWeb
|
|
|
Happy May and welcome to the 47th issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️ Last month I went down a rabbit hole of tech trends set the transform our world. As a tech enthusiast, I’ve never been more excited about the future of tech! The world is changing fast! 🚀🤖 Stepping back from tech horizon gazing I also had an active month. Highlights included go-karting, a boat trip, and revisiting the mountains. 🏎️⛰️
|
|
Las Canteras Beach Sunset
|
|
|
Two things to remember in life. Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people. First prize is to do something big. Second prize is to do something. Success rarely comes to people who do nothing. Things turn out best for people who make the best of how things turn out. - John Wooden
|
|
|
Europe’s Vaccination Problem | The Daily
Europe’s vaccination process was expected to be well-orchestrated and efficient. So far, it’s been neither. Sabrina Tavernise, a national correspondent for The Times, discusses the root of Europe’s problems.
|
131 - What will your Spotify Moment look like? Learning from the music industry | The David McWilliams Podcast
The music industry has been the most iconic example of disruption in the modern age, but if Will Page is right (former chief economist of Spotify) - it might only be the tip of the iceberg for what’s to come. Join them as they explore what happened to the music industry and how the same disruption is coming for many more categories, maybe including your own!
|
|
|
Tools and Weapons: The promise and peril of the digital age
Awesome book by two high powered Microsoft execs:
- Brad Smith - Microsoft President & Chief Legal Officer
- Carol Ann Browne - Chief of Staff & Executive Communication
“A captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world’s largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no pre-existing playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech’s relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. ” In the middle of the twentieth century, it was common for people to get paid to sit in and operate elevators in tall buildings. Today, that seems not just quaint, but anachronistic. By the middle of the twenty-first century, will people feel the same way about a human taxi or Uber driver? Bill Gates has famously remarked, “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.”
|
View my digital bookshelf here and my 12,000+ book highlights here.
|
|
|
99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
I usually pick-up a least one nugget of wisdom from each life advice/learnings list I read. Kevin Kelly’s latest birthday list is exceptional, I highlighted 20! My favourites include:
- Ignore what others may be thinking of you, because they aren’t.
- The greatest teacher is called “doing”.
- No rain, no rainbow.
|
Compare the size of locations on a map
How big is London vs Dublin? What about vs Tokyo? This neat tool lets you draw a shape on a map and then compare the area you selected to other areas.
|
|
|
I love finding tech and tools I can adopt immediately to improve my life. After reading The Future is Faster Than You Think I now appreciate the speed at which ground-breaking but seemly very distant tech can progress. My horizons have shifted to also explore exciting tech trends which may land in the next 10 years. This is ridiculously interesting, and exciting! Here are my favourite recent examples which highlight the pace of change:
- Driverless taxis are now launching in Beijing 🤖🚕
- Monkeys can now control computer games with their minds 🐒
- 117 years after the first flight we now have helicopters on Mars
-
Bonus: Humans can now live to be 117!
|
|
|
|
The world's oldest living person was alive when the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk and when the first helicopter flew on Mars.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spice up your greetings!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Me: I need to go to the doctor. How much will that cost?
My insurance: If it's a doctor that you seek to see, answer my here riddles three / Go to the wrong one and in debt you'll be / But which one is right? You won't hear from me
|
|
|
|
View all previous newsletters here and all previous newsletter links here.
Feel free to forward this email to a friend or reach out with feedback and suggestions for the next edition! ✌️ - Peter Duffy
|
|
Did you enjoy this issue?
|
|
|
|
In order to unsubscribe, click here.
If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe here.
|
|
|
|
|
