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January 1 · Issue #55 · 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 New Year and welcome to the very best of ‘How Curious!’ from the last 12 months ✌️ This special edition reflects on my favourite Quotes, Tech, Podcasts, and Books shared throughout 2021. 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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One of many memorable Ericeria sunsets in 2021! 🇵🇹
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If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Tallulah Bankhead Surfing should be called paddling, cause that’s what you’re actually doing most of the time. What you get to show at the end of the day is the cover shot surfing the big wave, but that’s really the output of a lot of tonnage. - Tim Ferriss Consensus is just another way of saying ‘average’. - Naval
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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.” 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. Kudos to Oisin for this perfect birthday gift!
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How to Live | Derek Sivers
I’m a huge Derek Sivers fan and devour all his books as soon as they’re released. His latest book explores 27 conflicting answers to the question of how to live. Thought-provoking! If you knew you’d go blind tomorrow, how intensely would you look at the world today? If you knew you’d go deaf tomorrow, how intensely would you listen? Fill your senses as if this was your last day on Earth. One day that will be true. But if you avoid pain, you avoid improvement. Avoid embarrassment and you avoid success. Avoid risk, and you avoid reward. Don’t live somewhere pleasant surrounded by normal people. Live among your fellow freaks, where obsession is normal and ambition is rewarded.
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Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey
I rarely read new books but this was recommended by far too many people for me to ignore! The stories from McConaughey’s life are incredible, almost unbelievable, but they sure make for an amazing read. They are not trying to win arguments of right or wrong. They are trying to understand each other. That’s different. ““It is not about win or lose, it is about do you accept the challenge,” Issa said as he looked at me and smiled. “When you did that, you already won.””
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View my digital bookshelf here and my 12,000+ book highlights here.
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The Data Detective | Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Cautionary Tales’ host Tim Harford has a new book - The Data Detective- setting out ten commandments for understanding the numbers, charts, graphs, and statistics that bombard us every day. In this free extract, Tim explains his extra “golden” rule that allows us to observe all his other commandments -be curious.
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#153: The Man Who Studied 1,000 Deaths to Learn How to Live | The Tim Ferriss Show
At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? And how can knowing this help you live better lives now? BJ Miller knows. BJ is a palliative care physician at Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, where he thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. He is an expert in death, but he’s also learned how we can dramatically improve our own lives, often with small changes. Considering that he has guided or been involved with ~1,000 deaths, it’s not surprising that he’s spotted patterns we can all learn from.
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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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The Technium: 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.
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Life is short. (Short comic)
This short comic is a superb reminder to savour life’s special moments. Life is short.
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100 Ways To Live Better - LessWrong
Books are great, but there is also something magical about reading advice lists! For less than five minutes of reading time, there’s a high chance you’ll pick up a few nuggets that may stick with you for life. I highlighted over 20 items in this list, including:
#41 - Old: buy 20 of the same pair of black socks so you don’t have to worry about matching. Bold: buy 20 colourful pairs and don’t worry about matching.
#50 - Any <$100 purchase that may turn into a hobby is worth it even if the hit rate is low. Sports equipment, a musical instrument, art supplies, etc. If it doesn’t catch on, gift it to a friend.
#106 - If you think you’re running 10 minutes late, text to say you’ll be 15 minutes late. That way the other person gets one disappointment and one pleasant surprise. Most people do the opposite: they say they’re 5 minutes late when it’s 10 and end up annoying the other and looking like total fools.
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#42 How Curious! 2020's Best of The Best
Enjoyed the best of 2021, but crave more great content? Check out the Best of 2020 to satisfy that curiosity!
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