The Guardian

Seven Seconds

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Background Brain

I started maintaining a list of things I want to think about when I’m not thinking about anything else. Ex. Things to think about while in the grocery store or out for a walk.

La petite mort

A brief loss or weakening of consciousness — a moment where you’re not quite yourself because things are changing or ending.

Being ethical

We only have the ethics we can afford.

Research

“All research is me-search” - Old social science adage.

Regret Amplifier

🔗 YouTube / Ali Abdaal and Alex Lieberman

Sometimes it might not be enough to simply ask yourself if you’ll regret not trying a project. It could also be worth asking yourself if you would regret eventually learning that someone else succeeded at the project you had planned.

The Final Year

I realised how much I’m driven by the concept of “the final year”: collecting all of your favourite things in life that you’d like to re-experience in your final year of life.

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Augmented Reality Fashion

Perhaps the reason everyone in futuristic sci fi wear the same uniform is because they have embedded AR technology that allows them to see each other’s virtual outfits.

Creative Circadian Rhythm

Similar to how we have a circadian rhythm for our sleep-wake cycles, I wonder if we also have a rhythm for when our brains are most optimal for creativity.

Ping Pong Date

Ping pong makes a nice date activity. Still pretty easy to have a conversation while playing an easily non-competitive game.

Power of Audience

Performing in front of an audience has a tendency to bring out the best of our abilities. Athletes, for example, tend to perform better in front of an audience. Caveat: it must be a dominant activity for you, otherwise it will likely elicit anxiety.

Power of Watching People Fail

Understanding how people fail is just as educational as understanding how they’ve succeeded. Ex. watch people play tennis poorly in order to learn how not to play.

Invulnerability

What would you do if you were gifted with invulnerability for a week?

No Sleep Schedule

What would it look like if you tried designing a schedule for your next week in an alternate reality where you didn’t have to sleep?

What does being mentally healthy at work look like to you?

For me, it’s a balance of pull (eager anticipation leading up to the workday) and push (feeling of resolved accomplishment).

Digital cryogenics

In a similar vain to how we’re able to reconstruct what dinosaurs looked like using their fossils and other archaeological evidence, I wonder if it’ll be possible to reconstruct people after death using their digital fingerprints (second brains, text messages, voice recordings, vlogs).

Augmented Reality for Dating

Using AR to tell other people around you that you’re single and looking

Walkable Rollercoaster

🔗 /DesignTAXI article/