Links
Nitin Khanna has the same problem I’ve found myself in lately: Addled in endless YouTube shorts. We can’t be going into our 40s getting sucked into echo chambers and algorithmic escapes. That’s not the way to live a life.
Heard briefly about Semantic Link on this talk by Stephanie Bruno & Mike Carlo. Probably an overkill for what I’m about to embark on, but will keep an eye on it for now.
Ryder Carroll’s short 6 min video about bullet journals had a reminder of how to start with an intention, list the actions that will get you to that outcome, and filter them down to 3 behaviours – and only then track them in a notebook.
What were Medieval Attitudes Towards Sex? is a look into the pleasures of the Middle Ages with narrator Eleanor Janega. Hilarious and educational at the same time.
Jefferson Fisher: How to have a difficult conversation – watch this and make some notes for my own use.
Robin Reames: How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions and her book The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself.
Ben Werdmuller: What I want to see from every product team
Dave’s Garage – An ex-Windows developer explains the Crowdstrike outage event
davepl@davepl.com
Jeremy Connell-White shared this talk by Virgin Abloh "What’s your signature". #communication
Kurt Armstrong: Repair and remain Repair and remain. Work with what you’ve got. Sit still for a moment, take stock, make some changes. Big changes, if necessary.
Podcasts
Roger Martin on Lenny’s Podcast: 5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy
Re-listening to "The Influence You Have" on the Hidden Brain podcast
Quotes
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a social expectation and social pressure to show that you, too, are aware of what is happening in the world, and that you are taking the good/right/moral side. Whether on social media or in the ‘real world’, there is a social expectation for you to be aware of whatever dramas are playing out that the media has chosen to highlight at that point in time, and have an educated perspective on them.
–Tara Kemp
“Perspective has an expiration date, no matter how hard you try to hold on to it.”
-Frank Guidera, restaurateur
Done shouldn’t mean done forever!
–Nicole van der Hoeven talking about notes.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.
–Seth Godin
Words
Milquetoast: Caspar Milquetoast is a fictional character created by H. T. Webster for his comic strip The Timid Soul. Webster described Caspar Milquetoast as "the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick". The character’s name is derived from a bland and fairly inoffensive food, milk toast, which, light and easy to digest, is an appropriate food for someone with a weak or "nervous" stomach.
mensh: a person of integrity and honor
Raffish: To be disreputable
Sapid: Tasty, strong aromatic taste