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April 5 · Issue #58 · 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 58th issue of ‘How Curious!’ ✌️ March continued my current health streak, featuring plenty of hikes, surfing, and wind-surfing as I visited the nearby island of Fuerteventura. Although I work part-time, this was the first full week off I’ve taken in 6+ months. This included a total break from social media. It was a super chance to chill, reflect, and shape my priorities for the coming months. 🧘🎯
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Costa Calma, Fuerteventura 🏖️
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert L Stevenson 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. - Derek Sivers To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or we can make sandals.
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Call of Duty: Free | 99% Invisible, EP.477
On the west coast of Ireland lies a small town called Shannon. But Shannon is not a quaint fishing village or farming community. Its industry is its airport. It looks like a cosmopolitan international airport, but it has a unique claim to fame: the world’s first airport duty-free store.
Today, the store has what you would expect – designer perfumes, jewellery and various fine foods, with a lot of local (in this case Irish) products in particular. But like the area around the airport, the shop started out small, with a local boy from the area who would go on to change the world of tax-free commerce in and beyond Shannon. The idea also kick-started economic free zones worldwide.
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Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 | Capital Allocators, EP.236
Josh Wolfe is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital, a $4 billion venture capital firm that invests in solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time. This episode dives into Josh’s cautious perspective on the venture landscape and how it impacts Lux’s investment process. It also covers a handful of “directional arrows of progress,” including smell, deception and detection, the tech of science, infrastructure for the metaverse, crypto, elemental power, space, and Africa.
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How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity
This is amongst the most impactful books I’ve ever read. It’s short but packs a punch, I highlighted 66 passages in the 112 pages! I’ve already applied the learnings on strategy, listening, focus, and empathy to my daily life. Asking oneself to imagine what our lives might be like, without direct tools for a fix to hand, might feel immature and naive. Yet it is by formulating visions of the future that we more clearly identify what it is we might be missing, and so need, and thus set the wheels of change in motion. The good listener takes it for granted that they will encounter vagueness in the conversation of others. But they don’t condemn, rush or get impatient, because they see vagueness as a universal and significant trouble of the mind that it is the task of a true friend to help with. The challenge isn’t to avoid envy but to bring it more clearly into focus in order to guide our own next steps.
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance : Waitzkin, Josh
Josh Waitzkin was a chess prodigy and martial arts world champion. In this book he tells his remarkable story of personal achievement and shares the principles of learning and performance that have propelled him to the top—twice. My take-aways for better learning include:
- Break things into small parts
- Have a trainer
- When injured, focus on the parts you can still improve
We have to be able to do something slowly before we can have any hope of doing it correctly with speed. When aiming for the top, your path requires an engaged, searching mind. You have to make obstacles spur you to creative new angles in the learning process. Let setbacks deepen your resolve. You should always come off an injury or a loss better than when you went down. Bruce slowed me down by asking questions. Whenever I made an important decision, good or bad, he would ask me to explain my thought process. Were there other ways to accomplish the same aim?
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Life Is Up To You: 8 Choices That Will Make Your Life Better | by Ryan Holiday
Stoicism is a philosophy that helps to make better choices. Choosing the right things to value, the right things to think, the right things to focus on, the right response to a difficult situation. This article give the best insights from the Stoics on how choosing well can lead to a better life.
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Everything Must Be Paid for Twice
One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’s the first price, just to gain possession of the desired thing. But then, in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits, and it can be much higher than the first price.
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Pricing Psychology: A List of Tactics
In this guide, you’ll learn 42 tricks to improve your pricing.
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100 Tips for a Better Life - LessWrong
Another awesome list of life tips. I highlighted 16, my favourites include:
4. “Where is the good knife?” If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out.
86. Cultivate patience for difficult people. Communication is extremely complicated and involves getting both tone and complex ideas across. Many people can barely do either. Don’t punish them.
95. Some types of sophistication won’t make you enjoy the object more, they’ll make you enjoy it less. For example, wine snobs don’t enjoy wine twice as much as you, they’re more keenly aware of how most wine isn’t good enough. Avoid sophistication that diminishes your enjoyment.
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