fw:🫀4-monitor computer setup, 37 documentaries & hackers reading list
Ro.bert
here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
a weekly list of goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
🎧 something to listen to while reading - hot since 82 in Dubrovnik, Croatia
fiery stuff I've been ingesting
My Favorite 37 Documentaries — Features and Short Films That Cover High Performance, Overcoming Failure, Creative Process, Psychedelics, Trauma, and Much More
Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan’s recent video on the War in Ukraine - quite nice to see Andrew covering serious issues. You don’t normally see him cover events outside the US. I’ve been watching Channel 5 content for almost 2 years now. He is documenting America’s underbelly. Some people call it comedy, journalism, ethnography, anthropology, and all kinds of academic terms.
Talent Rules in Both the NBA and the World Economy. Here are the main ideas.
Trying to Survive in Prison as a First Time Offender (and knowing how to fight) - for those interested, one can watch the full episode here.
Neuralink update.
Female Empowerment Shouldn’t Mean We Have to Imitate Men
My 4-monitor computer setup (16-inches + 49-inches + 34-inches + 24-inches)
What are hackers reading?
In 1911, an influential expert revealed a forgotten science of how to be 50x more productive without working more hours
Completing the human genome: In order to construct the consensus map of the human genome, an international project called the Human Genome Project ran from 1990 to 2003 in what amounted to a herculean effort to map out all of the bases that constitute a single human’s DNA.
How employers have gamified work for maximum profits
Elon Musk Buying Twitter. The world’s richest person said he’ll pay $54.20 per share in cash, 38% above the price on April 1, the last trading day before Musk went public with his stake.
What Russia’s war means for the International Space Station
What Happened To The Founder Of Torrents?
Stuff I pushed out this week
tweets for thought
YouTube video
Rational improvisation
Other places
🦑 Send me stuff to read: anything from computer science, history, language & literature, crypto, rationality, self-improvement, genetics, physics, mathematics, linguistics, medicine, music, tech etc.
check out Visual Theory
(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°) Telegram group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful — I find it to be slightly easier vs. Discord for now, but we will see.
👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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