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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
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Started reading: How To Know a Person by David Brooks 📚
Human beings need recognition as much as they need food and water. No crueler punishment can be devised than to not see someone, to render them unimportant or invisible. “The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them,” George Bernard Shaw wrote, “but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” To do that is to say: You don’t matter. You don’t exist.
This sentiment is why I don’t like it when people refer to others as NPCs
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Good gym session with Pete. Really helps to have someone to hang out with and motivate you to lift on a weekly basis!
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Thinking about business ecosystem change and growth:
So: if you had a child in 1946, at the start of Sony’s founding, that child would’ve been four years old in 1950, at the launch of Sony’s first tape recorder. They would’ve been 12 years old when Morita and Ibuka renamed the company to ‘Sony’. They would’ve been 22 years old in 1968, when Sony introduced the first Trinitron colour television, the same year they introduced the TC-100 cassette recorder. They would be 33 years old at the launch of the Walkman. This is how long it takes for a private company to change things.
from Cedric Chin
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Reading list: Tanner Greer on The Silicon Valley Canon 📚
