March 2022 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To
What I Am Reading
Investing in Web3 Credentialing
Credential networks and on-chain digital identities are a core component of the Web3 stack.
The History and Origin of Meditation
“You may already have a meditation practice that works for you, or you may be new to the concept and looking to build your knowledge and understanding of how meditation can bring value to your daily life. Either way, the history of meditation is fascinating and well worth exploring.”
We’ve Been Thinking About Pain All Wrong
The main purpose of pain is not to alert you of physical harm, but to motivate you to get out of a harmful situation and into a safe one.
What I am Watching:
Charlie Munger speaks at the Daily Journal annual meeting
The meeting features Daily Journal Chairman and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger and DJCO President and CEO Jerry Salzman. Munger and Salzman will take shareholder questions from CNBC’s Becky Quick.
THE CHI
Hands down the best TV show currently streaming in my opinion and totally underrated.
Jake, Papa and Kevin must confront the harsh reality of how the world views young, Black men in the aftermath of an act of police brutality. As the three friends reckon with a broken system, the aftershocks ripple across the South Side.
Augmented
An ingenious new technology allows prosthetic legs to move and feel like the real thing.
How Solar Storms Could Knock Out Our Power Grid
What I am Listening To:
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong: HOW I BUILT THIS WITH GUY RAZ
“Brian Armstrong wanted to be a tech entrepreneur since he was in high school, but his first serious venture—a tutoring website—never quite took off. Around 2010, while looking to get a job in Silicon Valley, he stumbled across an intriguing idea for a peer-to-peer digital currency called Bitcoin, which quickly turned into his obsession.”
Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us
Sendhil Mullainathan is the Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Sendhil reflects on lessons he learned from his father, how creativity is the marrying of ideation and filtration, direct versus associative memory, what we can do to get better, rules versus decisions, positioning over predicting, outcome over ego and so much more. Listen now for some ideas that you can put into practice that will help you become a better version of yourself.