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Winnie Lim reviews Endure by Alex Hutchinson and talks about the connection between physical and mental performance and regulation:
For me, this just demonstrates the malleability of our minds and bodies. That they are capable of change, that we can probably push our limits further than we originally believed. We don’t have to be elite athletes to experience this change. In a positive feedback loop, any input will start the loop going.
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Started reading: Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong. One chapter in, It’s always stunning to read how much the world changed around 1870. So many connections, movements and developments! 📚
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Reading through the UK Foundations essay on investing in infrastructure.
Over the past two decades, Britain’s economy has needed a huge quantity of new housing, transport infrastructure and energy supply. Its postwar institutions have manifestly failed to deliver these. Britain is now a place in which it is far too hard to build houses and infrastructure, and where energy is too expensive. This has meant that our most productive industries have been starved of the resources, investment and talent – the economic foundations – that they need to grow.
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I’ve edited and posted the video from Emmanuel’s talk on NX at EdinburghJS. You can find it on the Scottish Technology Club website: www.scottishtechnology.club/library/e…
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“A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, while a person who conveys formality can meet the same people and find them stiff and detached. “Attention,” the psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist writes, “is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being.” The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.”
David Brooks, How to Know a Person
