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Here's your weekly dose of the Knowledge Bottle Newsletter.
You can think of this as a caffeine jolt ⚡ of not just inspiration but also some tactical advice you can use.
I’ve been reading quite an interesting newsletter this week — Gray Mirror
🧠 (Golden nuggets)
#1: A general theory of collaboration
In 2020, everyone is either a collaborator or a dissident.
Engagement is any voluntary relationship with power—to assist or resist power, whether in action or just desire. If you are trying to change the world—even if you just want to change it—maybe even if you just want it to change—you are engaged.The opposite of engagement is detachment. To be detached is to be consciously irrelevant—to inhabit the world as it is, to know that it is likely to continue on its current path, and to separate yourself from any action or desire to change it. No one can achieve perfect detachment—which is the point of trying.
🎶 (Study)
The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music
✍️ (App)
Todorant
Smart todo list that tricks brain into completing tasks. Todorant uses a carefully crafted set of limits and praise to punish bad behaviour and support good habits. It affects the primitive part of the brain to make it crave completing todos like people crave sugar.
🤖 (Future)
Inward - a visual appealing gallery of futuristic imagery and city landscapes.
⌛ (Thinking/Future)
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
No matter what my grandma chose to share with me about her upbringing, I can go online and find all kinds of information about the world she lived in, the hardships she might’ve endured. The distant past is brought back to life in the digital realm, as if no time has passed at all. The internet has flattened the vast archive of the past and made history unprecedentedly (and unrelentingly) immediate.
👨💻 (Tech/Future)
A Harvard sophomore is driving across the country on Google Street View, because this is the world we live in now.|
On June 19, Uday Schultz hit the road. The 19-year-old rising sophomore at Harvard decided to spend part of his summer break fulfilling a dream he has had since middle school. He was going to drive across the country. But without a car and the pandemic in full swing, he decided to do it all from his Brooklyn house. So Schultz fired up Google Street View, plugged in Seattle, and started clicking his way back home.
[Prediction] 👇
Humanity begins the real phase of mass-scale bionic body augmentations. Swapping body parts with more robust technologically integrated prosthetics.
The augmentations will provide insane technological integrations that will sync with the external devices while also improving the overall body functionality & longevity.
The jobs moved towards the Internet, and new ones such as VR, AR, art, communication, experiencial services, software and so on.
My Latest YouTube Video
Top Universities Are Moving ONLINE — Should YOU Still Go to College?
“Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Huntsman, What Quarry?
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