The Beginning of Life, Metaverse, Elizabeth Gilbert, Motivation, Ghosts
12.02.22 - Open the fortune cookie :) Top TEN for the week & notes on culture, tech, work, and play.
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Every Friday I email a new playlist (think of it as a mixtape) and the top ten articles, essays, videos, news, blog posts, and podcasts I find notably good and shareable.
For a deeper dive into the post I wrote this week on social identity and the neuroanatomic research mentioned therein, see the docs from the research labs in Spain, California, and Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
A brilliant documentary The Beginning of Life will change how you look and interact with your kids, no matter their age. The same with BABIES on Netflix.
Oxford University Press has revealed that "metaverse" is in the running for its 2022 word of the year. If this is still Greek to you, learn what it is here and here, what it means for business, and are we in the metaverse yet?
Poetry is necessary and deeply human. (A fortune cookie)
The 51 coolest neighborhoods and the best festivals in the world.
Reach out to friends you haven’t seen or spoken to. Read the abstract or get the Journal.
4 ways to improve performance on Cool New Science On Motivation
Patagonia’s owner, Mr. Chouinard, his wife, and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization that will combat climate change.
About 75 percent of your brain is made up of water. Any level of dehydration, can have a negative effect on your brain functions. Drink more H2O.
Elizabeth Gilbert interviews Kemi Nekvapil, the author of Power: A Woman’s guide to living and leading without apology on Instagram.
BEAUTIFUL TEXT ✍️
“Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, or the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it becomes mindless, automated, like gravity pulling the stream down its course; until it becomes an inner law of nature. If Viktor Frankl can exclaim “yes to life, in spite of everything!” — and what an everything he lived through — then so can any one of us amid the rubble of our plans, so trifling by comparison. Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, “the little joys”; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave the lifeline that saves us.
Delight in the age-salted man on the street corner waiting for the light to change, his age-salted dog beside him, each inclined toward the other with the angular subtlety of absolute devotion.
Delight in the little girl zooming past you on her little bicycle, this fierce emissary of the future, rainbow tassels waving from her handlebars and a hundred beaded braids spilling from her golden helmet.
Delight in the snail taking an afternoon to traverse the abyssal crack in the sidewalk for the sake of pasturing on a single blade of grass.
Delight in the tiny new leaf, so shy and so shamelessly lush, unfurling from the crooked stem of the parched geranium.” - Maria Popova
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Until next week!
Your fellow human,
-Jorge Fusaro