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1. Reading the Great Online Game
Cool piece on how we are all playing the Great Online Game, with crypto being the in-game currency. You have CEOs, influencers, artists, researchers, investors, and regular people, like you and me.
We now live in a world in which, by typing things into your phone or your keyboard, or saying things into a microphone, or snapping pictures or videos, you can marshall resources, support, and opportunities. Crypto has the potential to take it up a notch by baking game mechanics – points, rewards, skins, teams, and more – right into the whole internet.
Remember, the Great Online Game is free to play.
2. Following up on the Great Online Game, here’s a quick story of a 21-year-old that has launched three startups (the first one failed, not sure about the second, but I enjoy the idea of #3)
Started when he was 16. This got some press, nothing hugely exceptional. What I am trying to say is that this is still part of the Great Online Game, with tons of micro-components getting into the mix, making people feel bad about not being there yet. Most would say “look at what this guy has achieved, and he is only 21” - but I think this type of approach is a dangerous way to look at things. Again, lots of components to take into account. Child prodigies are good for the press, and for the money. Once they reach critical age X, they are not that relevant anymore, because it is not sexy for the media. What can I say? I clicked on the article. But also started thinking about this. I am not sure if I care about child prodigies anymore, but what they do when they become adults and throughout their life.
Meal‐timing interventions facilitate weight loss primarily by decreasing appetite rather than by increasing energy expenditure. eTRF (Early Time Restricted Feeding) may also increase fat loss by increasing fat oxidation. The researchers found that eTRF did lower levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin and improved some aspects of appetite. It also increased fat-burning over the 24-hour day.
4. A new way to look at your cloud space
I got beta access to this new tool called PlayBook. They call it a cloud platform for creatives. The way it works is you connect your cloud source i.e. Dropbox, Box, Drive, etc. and PlayBooxk gets everything through a filter that removes duplicates, shrinks clutter, and allows you to see files and folders faster, as they provide quite a nice visual file manager.
⇾ check it here
5. Gahahahah
How to Write an UnGoogleable Exam Question – Part 1
How to Write an UnGoogleable Exam Question – Part 2
Google has confirmed that it has changed how it formulates web page titles in its search listings — it ignores the title tags you set 20% of the time. What Google used to do is rewrite page titles based on the search query; now, it rewrites page titles based on the actual subject of the page.
Thinking about the impact this is going to have on search.
7. How to pick which blogs to read by Julian
Bloggers who post frequently (say, twice weekly) are rarely worth reading consistently. I read for insights. And no author can generate profound insights on a fixed schedule. I seek writers who write a lot but publish a little. When they post, they truly have something to say.
(I noticed this after spotting my favorite bloggers—including Paul Graham, Angela Jiang, and Derek Sivers—post erratically while the newsletter and mainstream writers I often regret reading are posting weekly.)
8. We asked, you answered: your 50 favorite Sci-Fi fantasy books of the past decade (NPR.org)
9. Tesla is working on a ‘Tesla Bot’ humanoid robot for general purpose use
The CEO believes that it makes sense for Tesla to use their significant advancements in computer vision, but instead of deploying in a robot on four wheels, the company will do it in a humanoid robot.
Musk said that Tesla Bot will be geared toward doing “repetitive and boring tasks.”
10. Why is it so hard to be rational?
I have not idea.
Tweets for thought
if intelligence increases the odds of a person being correct, but increases the odds of them being a persuasive arguer much more, is it rational to distrust people much more intelligent than you?
Visual Theory
Here’s the evolution of one of my side projects — Visual Theory. I am re-learning how to see.
➜ You can follow the project on 🐦 Twitter & 📷 Instagram
➜ you can also contribute an idea!
Thank you for reading!
How’re you and yours doing this week? Any major changes to your status quo, or are things fairly locked-in and predictable at the moment? I respond to every email I get—consider sending me a message and telling me a bit about yourself and what’s been up in your world.
— Robert