Last week, we shared the entirety of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a classic of gothic literature. This week, we’re sharing a preview of The 5 Hidden Love Questions, Dr. Ali Binazir and Dr. Victor Frank’s guide to getting more out of modern dating.
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Most highlighted Articles of the week
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
Maria Popova · The Marginalian
After nearly two decades of writing reflective essays, Maria Popova shares the lessons she’s learned each year, including: “Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for ‘negative capability,’” and “Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action.”
Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled
Bill Watterson · Speakola
Bill Watterson, the artist behind the beloved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, reflects on his early days drawing ads in a convenience store basement during his commencement speech to Kenyon College students. “At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.”
Writes and Write-Nots
Paul Graham · paulgraham.com
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham considers a specific cultural impact of AI: he predicts that as AI proliferates, fewer people will care to write. “Is that so bad? Isn’t it common for skills to disappear when technology makes them obsolete? There aren’t many blacksmiths left, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem. Yes, it’s bad. The reason is something I mentioned earlier: writing is thinking. In fact there’s a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.”
Most highlighted YouTube Video of the week
Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck
Stanford Alumni
To truly grasp the power of embracing difficulty as a sign of learning—a growth mindset—return to the source in this timeless video from Carol Dweck herself, author of Mindset. “When we praise kids for the process they engage in, for their hard work, their strategies, their focus, their perseverance—they learn challenge-seeking. They learn that resilience. Praising talent, praising intelligence, makes them vulnerable.”
Most highlighted Twitter Thread of the week
Pascio@IAmPascio
Ivan Zhao is the founder of Notion.
He just held a 1 hour keynote at Notion’s first in-person conference.
What he announced today, will blow your mind.
Here are the key takeaways (+8 new launches):
Posted Oct 24, 2024 at 7:37PMIvan Zhao is the founder of Notion
Pascio
Pascio unpacks Notion founder Ivan Zhao’s keynote speech, where he unveiled new features like custom emojis and an email client, teased upcoming projects (offline mode is coming!), and reiterated Notion’s product philosophy. “The solution lies in our favorite tool, Lego,’ he says. ‘Our insight is that most software is made from the same common building blocks: Text, Database, Views. Why don’t we deconstruct it back to that, and make it like Lego?‘”
Most highlighted PDF of the weekThe next big arenas of competition
McKinsey Global Institute
McKinsey’s extensive report explores how certain “arenas”—industries like AI, cybersecurity, and pharmaceuticals—are poised to transform the global economy. “Arenas are a unique category of industries defined by two characteristics: high growth and dynamism. They capture an outsize share of the economy’s growth, and the market shares of players within them change to an outsize degree. We have identified 18 potential arenas of the future that could reshape the global economy, generating 29trillionto48 trillion in revenues by 2040.”
Hand-picked book of the week
The 5 Hidden Love Questions
Ali Binazir and Victor Frank
To build a lasting romantic relationship, it’s important to know yourself before intertwining your life with another. In The 5 Hidden Love Questions, Dr. Ali Binazir and Dr. Victor Frank equip readers with profound questions like, “Am I enough?” and “What do I really want?” to do just that. Combining insights from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and practical advice, they seek to guide readers toward self-discovery and a more fulfilling dating life.
“Who are you? When I ask this question in a seminar setting, people give the answers you would expect: sister, brother, Kate, mother, employee, boss, Jeff, doctor, lawyer, baker, human, man, woman, nonbinary, citizen, Christian, Muslim, sports fan, and so on. They mostly answer in terms of labels and categories. The rest of the world seems to be defining us that way, and most of us go along with it.
But is that really who you are? Like, deep down inside? What if the truth of who you are is something completely different—something much more magnifi (View Highlight)
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
Maria Popova · The Marginalian
After nearly two decades of writing reflective essays, Maria Popova shares the lessons she’s learned each year, including: “Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for ‘negative capability,’” and “Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action.”
Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled
Bill Watterson · Speakola
Bill Watterson, the artist behind the beloved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, reflects on his early days drawing ads in a convenience store basement during his commencement speech to Kenyon College students. “At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.”
Writes and Write-Nots
Paul Graham · paulgraham.com
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham considers a specific cultural impact of AI: he predicts that as AI proliferates, fewer people will care to write. “Is that so bad? Isn’t it common for skills to disappear when technology makes them obsolete? There aren’t many blacksmiths left, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem. Yes, it’s bad. The reason is something I mentioned earlier: writing is thinking. In fact there’s a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.”
Most highlighted YouTube Video of the week
Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck
Stanford Alumni
To truly grasp the power of embracing difficulty as a sign of learning—a growth mindset—return to the source in this timeless video from Carol Dweck herself, author of Mindset. “When we praise kids for the process they engage in, for their hard work, their strategies, their focus, their perseverance—they learn challenge-seeking. They learn that resilience. Praising talent, praising intelligence, makes them vulnerable.”
Most highlighted Twitter Thread of the week
Pascio @IAmPascio
Ivan Zhao is the founder of Notion.
He just held a 1 hour keynote at Notion’s first in-person conference.
What he announced today, will blow your mind.
Here are the key takeaways (+8 new launches):
Posted Oct 24, 2024 at 7:37PM
Ivan Zhao is the founder of Notion
Pascio
Pascio unpacks Notion founder Ivan Zhao’s keynote speech, where he unveiled new features like custom emojis and an email client, teased upcoming projects (offline mode is coming!), and reiterated Notion’s product philosophy. “The solution lies in our favorite tool, Lego,’ he says. ‘Our insight is that most software is made from the same common building blocks: Text, Database, Views. Why don’t we deconstruct it back to that, and make it like Lego?‘”
Most highlighted PDF of the weekThe next big arenas of competition
McKinsey Global Institute
McKinsey’s extensive report explores how certain “arenas”—industries like AI, cybersecurity, and pharmaceuticals—are poised to transform the global economy. “Arenas are a unique category of industries defined by two characteristics: high growth and dynamism. They capture an outsize share of the economy’s growth, and the market shares of players within them change to an outsize degree. We have identified 18 potential arenas of the future that could reshape the global economy, generating 48 trillion in revenues by 2040.”
Hand-picked book of the week
The 5 Hidden Love Questions
Ali Binazir and Victor Frank
To build a lasting romantic relationship, it’s important to know yourself before intertwining your life with another. In The 5 Hidden Love Questions, Dr. Ali Binazir and Dr. Victor Frank equip readers with profound questions like, “Am I enough?” and “What do I really want?” to do just that. Combining insights from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and practical advice, they seek to guide readers toward self-discovery and a more fulfilling dating life.
“Who are you? When I ask this question in a seminar setting, people give the answers you would expect: sister, brother, Kate, mother, employee, boss, Jeff, doctor, lawyer, baker, human, man, woman, nonbinary, citizen, Christian, Muslim, sports fan, and so on. They mostly answer in terms of labels and categories. The rest of the world seems to be defining us that way, and most of us go along with it.
But is that really who you are? Like, deep down inside? What if the truth of who you are is something completely different—something much more magnifi (View Highlight)