August Favourites 2022
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- August Favourites 2022
- 🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
- 📺 My Favourite Shows of the Month
- ✏️ My Favourite Personal Creation of the Month
- 💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
- 💬 My Favourite Words of Wisdom of the Month
- 🧨 My Favourite Sparks of Motivation & Inspiration
- 🖼️ My Favourite Visuals of the Month
- 🧑🎨 My favourite artists of the month
- 📸 My favourite photos of the month
- 🤔 My Favourite Realizations of the Month
- 💭 My Favourite Reflections of the Month
- 🎙️ My Favourite Podcasts of the Month
- 🎬 My Favourite Videos of the Month
- 🧠 My Favourite Innovative Ideas of the Month
- 🎸 My Favourite Music of the Month
🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
The Guardian
📺 My Favourite Shows of the Month
Seven Seconds
Partner Track
✏️ My Favourite Personal Creation of the Month
💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Changes of the Month
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.
💬 My Favourite Words of Wisdom of the Month
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.
🧨 My Favourite Sparks of Motivation & Inspiration
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.
🖼️ My Favourite Visuals of the Month
🧑🎨 My favourite artists of the month
Mario De Meyer • Instagram account →
Kenzie Recker • Instagram account →
Maxim Zhestkov • Instagram account →
Cale LeRoy • Instagram account →
📸 My favourite photos of the month
🤔 My Favourite Realizations of the Month
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.
💭 My Favourite Reflections of the Month
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).
🎙️ My Favourite Podcasts of the Month
🎬 My Favourite Videos of the Month
🧠 My Favourite Innovative Ideas of the Month
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
