How to Stand Up for Yourself

[When someone asks 'why' after you respond to their request with 'no, you can say "it's not what's best for me right now", "it's outside my focus right now", "I need to make another choice".]

How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

[When you feel the tightening up and defensiveness that comes with someone trying to 'prove' or 'persuade' their perspective, consider focusing on what question to ask so that you can learn something.]

[Feeling triggered is a prompt to understand what provoked it.]

Does AI benefit the world?

[We did this three-session activity three times during the year: first for cars, then the internet, then generative AI.]

[Global impact doesn't lend itself to simple numerical representations, as what the numbers represent may not be evenly distributed.]

[Generative models are often discussed in terms of potential impact decades from now, so to start by measuring something that has already existed for decades helps ground discussion in less theoretical terms.]

[If we network homogeneously, our surrounding opinions will tend to conform similarly.]

Peanut butter soya cucumber salad

Ingredients

• 1 cucumber, sliced
• 2 tbsp peanut butter
• 1 splash of soya
• msg
• chilli crunch
• rice wine vinegar
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• sesame seeds
• sesame oil

Method

• Put everything in a container, then close and shake well to mix.

Poncianinho’s Vlog 8 “Other Side”

[The sun made me want to practice.]

Capoeira Podcast

[Advice should be like snow: the more gentle it falls, the longer it stays.]

The road to mastery 1 by Mestre Poncianinho

[Learn to be comfortable with getting motivated to work when you plateau and not give up.]

[Scoping out a scene that isn't aware of itself.]

Cachila: Uruguay – Tambores del Candombe N° 2 (2009)

Pure vocal percussion, sometimes with actual drums. Can't help but solo or move on some of these explosive rhythmic drives. Some tracks fuse conversation, sound play, and humour.

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber on Blinkist.

[Technical skill alone is insufficient to kickstart a successful business and can easily lead to unsustainable models where the founder does everything.]

[Turnkey businesses are popular because they have a far higher success rate; they consider and plan all aspects of the business beforehand so that the owner doesn't need to be present.]

[Every single process needs to be documented in order for someone to run the business without you.]

[Structure all aspects of the business to support your personal objectives.]

[Your marketing should consider the customer and ignore everything else. Get to know their profile as best as you can and market in ways that are appealing to them. Adapt your strategy as they change.]

[All of this 'business development process' never stops, continuing as you learn while in motion and understand through testing.]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche on Blinkist.

One must be a sea to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Speed Reading by Kam Knight on Blinkist.

[Note down every recent read and your reason for each; having clear purpose optimizes your perception and naturally goal-seeking tendencies for what's relevant.]

[Perceive the outline or structure beforehand to give yourself a mental model to fill in as you read.]

[Shift your gaze to the spaces between words or slightly off center to use your peripheral vision.]

[Inhibit subvocalization by closing your mouth firmly, humming, or listening to instrumental music.]

[Having an idea of the author's main message before reading helps move beyond a set of random words and into reinforcement of a larger concept. Reflect after each chapter on how the details support the main point. Mark new words and research them after each chapter to put them in better context.]

[Reduce eye strain with exercises such as: looking from side to side without moving your head, rolling them in a circle, or making figure eights.]

Capital by Karl Marx on Blinkist.

[Human labour transforms raw resources into commodities that have a 'use value' and 'exchange value'.]

[Work is a means to survive, rather than express creativity or humanity, and alienates workers from each other by forcing them to compete against one another for limited jobs.]

[Value comes from human labour, and transitioning entirely to mechanized labour generally reduces the rate of profit.]