The Gift of Knowledge

It seems like the proper time of year to write a newsletter about reflection…

But I’ve gotten 4 of those this week so I won’t bore you with another one!

Today I’m just going to send a collection of links and fun stuff I’ve learned about or read in the last few months for you to explore!

My Christmas present to you is some food for thought!

1. The only 3 stretches you need for full body flexibility.

2. If you’re in a 3rd world prison cell and had to call someone to get you out, who would you call? That’s the highest agency person you know.

3. Tall Poppy Syndrome

4. 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous by Tim Ferriss

5. “People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public’s mind.” - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast And Slow

6. The Map Is Not The Territory

7. Betteridge's Law: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no."

8. Men’s Dating App Dealbreaker Study

9. “Approximately 15% of the upsurge in antidepressant use among the girls can be attributed to increased oral contraceptive use”

10. Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | TED

11. How ‘Concept Creep’ Made Americans So Sensitive to Harm

12. Safetyism: After US schools banned peanuts because some kids had allergies, more kids developed peanut allergies from lack of exposure. We’re increasingly protecting kids from life, which only makes them more vulnerable to it. Too much safety is dangerous.

13. 100 Tips For A Better Life - Lesswrong

14. It Will Work, Eventually - Alex Hormozi

15. WTF is Ayurvedic Medicine

16. Preference Falsification - How the popular narrative can seem to switch very quickly.

17. Your Frame Matters More Than The Thinking - Steven Bartlett

18. The Danger of Social Isolation - Andrew Huberman

19. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis

20. The Ship of Theseus

21. The oral probiotic that is trying to permanently eliminate cavities.

22. Tech companies pay women to sacrifice their peak fertility window in order to preserve company productivity.

23. 50% Of Democrat Parents Fear Their Child Will Marry A Republican

24. Mansa Musa is supposedly the richest man ever. He was the emperor of Mali in the 14th century with an estimated $400 billion by today's standards. Have you ever heard of him? Probably not. All money scoreboards go back to 0.