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Robert here 👾
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Some things I thought were worth sharing this week!
Follow the white rabbit 🐇
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🎶 Something to listen while reading
I am working on simplifying my notes for some time, focusing on long-term content while also making better use of tone without losing velocity.
I have created a page that contains all of my notes on Productivity and will update this and only this going further.
>>> robertblanc.com/productivity
RAW, refreshing 🌿
[AMA] We are the EF's Eth 2.0 Research Team (Pt. 5: 18 November, 2020)
The researchers & devs working on Ethereum 2.0 had one more AMA (Ask Me Anything) Reddit session, tackling questions about the future of Ethereum.How a Few Undersea Cables Connect the Entire Internet (video)
Journeys: Clean AF photography blog. Really enjoyed the wording in the soda section.
No-graphic/text-only version of the CNN site. Lightweight and fast. Still… it’s CNN. Cut the hype.
Google’s Ngram is a nifty tool for researching historical word use, such as the first use of a word/phrase, or how its popularity changes over time. Ngram is 10 years old, but it got a significant upgrade last year so now it includes a lot more old books.
Podcast Notes, Books mentioned, finding a macro purpose: Lessons Learned from 500+ Days in Space, Life-Changing Books, and The Art of Making Hard Choices | Scott Kelly on The Tim Ferriss Show
Teenagers are going to sext, let’s teach them to do it safely; Quite entertaining (in a non-harmful way) reading about how SexEd is morphing lol.
📝 Complex & Divisive
Monstrous Memories (research paper): The Method of Loci and the Hannibal Lecter Novels.
This reminds me of a quote I often come back to when thinking about improving my memory palace.
The memory palace was mnemonic system well known to ancient scholars and much information was preserved in them through the Dark Ages while Vandals burned the books. Like scholars before him, Dr. Lecter stores an enormous amount of information keyed to objects in his thousand rooms, but unlike the ancients, Dr. Lecter has a second purpose for his palace; sometimes he lives there. He has passed years among it's exquisite collections, while his body lay bound on a violent ward with screams buzzing the steel bars like hell's on harp.
Hannibal Lecter's palace is vast, even by swift slippers of his mind pass from the foyer into the Great Hall of Seasons. The palace is built according to the rules discovered by Simonides of Ceos and elaborated by Cicero four hundred years later; it is airy, high-ceilinged, furnished with objects and tableaux that are vivid, striking, sometimes shocking and absurd, and often beautiful. The displays are well spaced and well lighted like those of a great museum. But the walls are not the neutral colors of museum walls. Like Ciotto, Dr. Lecter has frescoed the walls of his mind.
If you are interested in this particular character, you can read this post. If you want to replicate what a fictional character is doing, you can read my post on this:
>>> A Hannibalistic Approach to Life
Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
Currently reading this paper; Might have to construct a personal-thoughts-related post on this one. As far as I understood, this was a door-opener for most of the folks involved in the autonomous driving and society space.
⚔️ Tools I’m testing
Miro: collaborative whiteboard platform
Pigeon: all of your newsletters in one place
Shift: productivity hub, a desktop app for all your email accounts, apps and workflows. Seems to me like a Slack/Discord/Email combo. UI looks nice. Seems a bit slow on my machine. Will need further testing.
👽 My latest YouTube video
10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered: Share Your Work by Austin Kleon
🐦 Tweets for thought
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“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”
— Honoré de Balzac
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