Trove - August 16, 2022
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Hi everyone,
Here’s your weekly trove of recommendations. If you enjoy it, please feel free to forward this along to friends.
Little Ways The World Works by Morgan Housel
Morgan shows how the laws, rules, and patterns from different subject areas connect to seemignly unrelated areas of life.
John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” Fields are studied individually, but there are so many common denominators across topics. The more fields a lesson applies to, and the more disparate those fields are, the more powerful and important the lesson becomes.
Galilean Relativity (physics)…to fully understand what’s happening in a system, you have to see it from two perspectives: as an insider, and an outsider. Same in any social system, where an outsider can be blind to internal details but an insider can underestimate the power of tribal affiliations.
A guide to writing Morning Pages
It’s hard to stay consistent with this habit (three full pages can feel daunting sometimes), but it gives me a chance to clear out the thoughts bouncing around my head and feel lighter through the rest of the day.
The original morning pages journal. I’m im the middle of my second volume.
This instrumental album by Novo Amor
This is the newest album from one of my favorite indie/folk artists. He recently joined Greenpeace on an ocean expedition to Antarctica. He composed these dream-like tracks over the course of 21 days from a noisy cabin that made recording his usual piano, guitar, and vocals difficult.
My favorite track off the album: Ataraxia
My favorite health and science podcast
Andrew breaks down health and fitness topics, often from a neurobiology and ophthalmology angle, in a way laypeople can understand. From his bio:
*Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning. *
In 2021, Dr. Huberman launched the Huberman Lab Podcast. The podcast is frequently ranked in the Top 25 of all podcasts globally and is often ranked #1 in the categories of Science, Education, and Health & Fitness.
Link to the Huberman Lab Podcast feeds
This Twitter thread of animals in order of their DNA relation to humans.
Fair warning: not all the animals included are as cute as this guy:
Thanks for reading Trove. See you next week!
-Tobin