Curators are the new creators
Hey there,
Robert here.
Here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
Some things I thought were worth sharing this week!
Follow the white rabbit 🐇
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🎶 Something to listen while reading
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Rapid-fire articles
Will The New Joe Rogan Studio Kill His Podcast? 🎙️
A quick one on why we as humans enjoy routine and aesthetics.Curators Are The New Creators 📝
Nothing to curate without creative creators, but there is huge value in being a great curator. You can use the resources you collected and enhance your own creativity. You can also check my self-updating collection of 💌 Favorite Links.Fake reviews on Amazon?! Amazon UK deleted 20k user product reviews after the FT pointed out that most of the top reviewers were obviously faking. Amazon reviews are effectively useless for anything where there's enough money involved to attract incentives - Benedict Evans
This might be the start of a new model: Netflix makes some movies and shows free worldwide to non-subscribers
Remember when I was talking about the use of speed & speedrunning? Also about the Future of Work? Well, here some IRL clever speedrunning in action: Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
The Recursive Universe: One of the most interesting things about Life is the variety of patterns that can be constructed within it. Some patterns are readily observed in the wild – spontaneously emerging from a random soup of living and dead cells. Other patterns were meticulously designed by people, often built from smaller subunits with well-characterized behavior.
Quick thoughts I collected during the week
Bitcoin As A Reserve Currency Is Coming: “My expectation is that in 6 months from now, the Apples, the Amazons, the Googles, they are going to have Bitcoin on their balance sheets. One could also watch this video for self-education.
⌨️ For your programmers out there, here’s a software idea:
A cross between Google Drive and Airtable taking into account the data we are working with and the decision we are trying to arrive at:
auto-fill the fields from the site (price, description, images, availability)
allow for dynamic, rich fields like “walking distance to the beach” or “driving distance to nearest grocery store”
have voting/preference ranking of options. Including ranked choice
rows should disappear when the listings are no longer available
freeform notes that can simply be tagged “positive”, “neutral”, or “negative” - for example the lack of a parking spot would be a minus; good views would be a plus
Source: Spreadsheets, smoke, and leases
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📝 Serial Literature is a personal project to encourage the reading of fiction literature by going back to the old format of periodical installments. Read classic novels that were originally published in serial format in the way their authors originally intended.
🐙 I am considering watching this documentary: Becoming Nobody. You could read a quick review first.
🧠 Lateral thinking and using your imagination. I am also working on a funny video that’s going to show how and why reasoning by analogy always comes in handy. Will release that one next Sunday. Check my other YouTube stuff meanwhile.
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Cool bit
"… how can we explain the legal toleration for alcohol, the most destructive of all intoxicants, and the almost frenzied efforts to repress nearly all other drugs? Could it not be that we are willing to pay the terrible toll that alcohol extracts because it is allowing us to continue the repressive dominator style that keeps us all infantile and irresponsible participants in a dominator world characterized by the marketing of ungratified sexual fantasy?"
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Have a great day ahead!
Robert