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September 6 · Issue #51 · 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 September and welcome to the 51st issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️ Last month in Ireland was eventful! Catching up with family and friends is always special. Adding a Gran Canaria reunion and wedding festivities into the mix topped it off nicely. I then hopped over to London for a music festival. With 50,000 in attendance, the UK certainly has embraced living with Covid. The continued disparity in attitudes and approaches between countries intrigues me. On the work front, I’ve started an exciting new role with DWF, an innovative publicly-listed Law firm. It’s awesome working with a smart team that truly gets the future of work and how to enable people to perform at their best. I’ll continue to work remotely as I travel and have the flexibility to explore my various life and consulting pursuits. 🗺️
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Aliens/Beach art in Waterford, Ireland 👽
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Consensus is just another way of saying ‘average’. - Naval Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers. – Socrates If it costs your peace of mind, it’s too expensive.
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Snow Crash
The Metaverse is a hot topic in tech right now. But what the hell is it? Definitions vary quite a bit. I like Wikipedia’s definition: “A future iteration of the internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe”. The term originated in Snow Crash, a mind-bending sci-fi set in the Metaverse. This book is particularly interesting for anyone looking to understand the topic.
Bonus: I recently watched and enjoyed Ready Player One, which is also set in a virtual world.
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I rarely include more than one podcast recommendation from the same show in any given month, but I’ve recently discovered the MetaLearn podcast and these hit the spot.
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ML176: David Heinemeier Hansson on How To Learn Anything, Fighting Back Against Apple and Navigating the Culture Wars at Work | MetaLearn
I’m a big David Heinemeier Hansson fan. As the creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-Founder of Basecamp, and best-selling author he has a wonderful collection of successes. This episode covers his learning process and how he’s applied it to everything from photography to race car driving. My favourite snippets:
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Being the very best takes obsessive dedication. Being in the top 10% is far more achievable. (Similar to Scott Adam’s tip to combine being the top 10% in a few domains rather than aiming for #1 in any single domain).
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School as a buffet, pick and choose what you like. This made me laugh so hard! 😂 My liberal attitude to class attendance led my teachers to tell me - “School is not a salad bar, you can’t pick and choose as you please”.
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ML165: Annie Duke on Learning from Experience, Overcoming Analysis Paralysis and How To Make Better Decisions | MetaLearn
Annie Duke is a bestselling author, speaker, and decision-making consultant. As a former professional poker player, she has insightful views on decision-making from years of success in the field. This episode covers: What games like poker, chess, and backgammon can teach us about decision making - How to learn effectively from your experiences without becoming biased by outcomes- How to overcome analysis paralysis and eliminate unnecessary decisions. My favourite snippets:
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Sorting = eliminating options you don’t like, vs picking = choosing among the things you do. Put more emphasis on sorting than picking for many decisions.
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Resulting. Pundits focus too much on the outcome, they should spend more time analysing the probabilities and potential pay-offs that influence the decision.
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What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner? : AskReddit
I love finding simple tips that enhance the quality of my life, and many on this list have had a hugely positive impact on me in recent years. The following particularly resonate: Always have your phone on ‘Do not disturb’, reducing your work hours, and truly do not care what others think.
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Brickit iPhone App - Build new creations from bricks
This magical app scans Lego bricks and shows what to build with them. Super cool for kids and adults alike.
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Terms & Conditions Apply - A fun mini-game about pop-ups and the deviousness of websites and apps
A mini-game about pop-ups, and the deviousness of websites and apps. EVIL CORP wants your data. It will use every trick in the book (and a few more, just for fun). Can you outwit them?
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SpanishDict Translator & Learning App
There are loads of Spanish learning apps available. I like SpanishDict because it enables very targeting learning - eg. Quizzes for the top 50 verbs/adjectives/greetings, etc. Many consider this app to have more accurate translations than Google Translate, although I haven’t used it for this purpose yet.
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Passwords: every password must be completely unique, with fourteen characters all from different languages
Signatures: the one you came up with when you were nine is fine
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View all previous newsletters here. Feel free to forward this email to a friend or reach out with feedback and suggestions for the next edition! ✌️ - Peter Duffy
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