What I Am Reading

Same As It Ever Was

This is a few short stories about things that never change in a world that never stops changing.

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.”

The Top 10 Reasons People Can’t See The Crypto Light
“But the Crypto light is getting brighter every day. Every day, more people see the light. Every day more people are leaving their jobs at McKinsey and Goldman and going all in on Crypto. Everyday, the Crypto community is building and improving Crypto related tech.”

Lux Capital Q3 Quarterly Update
“It’s as important to take stock of the singularity of the present moment and our recent past, as it is to prepare for the suspenseful suddenness of what surprises may come.”
“We say: failure comes from a failure to imagine failure. And good times let guards down, making companies vulnerable to, as one of our nation’s noblest statesmen would have put it, the silent artillery of time.”

The Exponential Age will transform economics forever
“It’s hard for us to fathom exponential change – but our inability to do so could tear apart businesses, economies and the fabric of society.”

Five Predictions for 2022
“Ten years ago, we carried the iPhone 4 and the Motorola Droid in our pockets. Cryptocurrencies hadn’t been invented. VCs invested $10b per year. Most of us commuted every day and conference call bridges were state of the art. Electric cars remained curiosities and NASA sent the Space Shuttle to refuel the International Space Station.”

What I am Watching:

What If the Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning of the Universe?
“In the beginning, there was nothing. Then bang. Our Universe emerged in an explosion of light and energy. Current theories say that it all began 13.7 billion years ago. Or did it? Let's shed some light on this. So, how fast is the Universe expanding? Will the Universe and everything in it ever die? And why could our Universe have existed before the Big Bang? What's a singularity?”

What I am Listening To:

Deep Time
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Oliver Burkeman about our relationship to time. They discuss the perils of efficiency, being vs becoming, the illusion of time as a resource, parenting and childhood, work-life balance, the loss of leisure, the planning trap, social isolation, a modern Sabbath, and other topics.

The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs
“Denying and pushing back against NFTs and crypto is basically saying: ‘We’re not going to have a collectively owned future. We’re going to have a corporate-owned future, and we’re going to have a government-owned future.'”