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Happy December and welcome to the 54th issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️
November was another eventful month. Highlights included an action-packed week in Lisbon for the Web Summit tech conference, my first flight in a two-seater plane, and plenty of surfing! ✈️🏄
I’m excited to return to Ireland for a few weeks over Christmas before the next adventure in 2022!
Office with a sunset view. 🌅
Quotes
Things that never happened before happen all the time. - Scott Sagan
Try new things, but always keep a realistic option to quit. If you’re on the wrong train, every stop is the wrong stop. - Daniel Vassallo
Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live. - Margaret Fuller
My sister gifted me ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ book about 10 years ago and it awakened a curiosity that has led to my non-traditional outlook on life and the role work plays in it!
Learnings from the book and Tim’s podcast have had a major influence on my career objectives and trajectory. I credit his philosophy for enabling me to shape a flexible career that now lets me work 4-5 focused hours a day from a seaside town in Portugal.
This special episode features Tim’s very first speech at SXSW in March of 2007 and includes tips on how to optimise control of your time, income, and mobility.
For the most part, we take time for granted; maybe we don’t have enough of it, but we at least know how it works - well, most of the time.
A lot of what we think about time is relatively recent, and some of what we take for granted isn’t quite as universal as one might think. This series of time-centric stories challenges what you know (or think you know) about the way time works around the world.
Will Marshall founded Planet in 2010 with a small team of NASA scientists to build a constellation of satellites that would image the entire Earth every day. Since then, Planet has successfully built and deployed 450 satellites into space, which the company is using to create a time series of images for every place on Earth.
Space is going through an internet moment where cost reductions and performance enhancements have led to a seismic shift in what’s possible above our atmosphere, and how that can drastically improve life on Earth through unique datasets like the one Planet is piecing together.
F5Bot is a free service that emails you when your selected keywords are mentioned on Reddit or Hacker News. Use it to monitor your brand, your projects, or just topics that you’re interested in. I use it to monitor “LegalTech” related activity!
A key part of my job is tracking emerging tech and trends. I monitor a wide range of sources to get early sight of new innovations. Refind is the latest tool in my kit, curating a range of articles from topics I care about including; Space, AI, Blockchain and VR/AR.
