Issue 8: slow but steady week
Issue 8: slow but steady week
finding your life's purpose, search engine for AI agents, and lessons in love
Small Life Updates
I edited a vlog for the first time with Da Vinci Resolve, I had a lot of fun. I also visited a flea market in Malaysia and saw a lot of vintage stuff.
— Ben
I am continuing my crochet-ing adventure (I’ll showcase it soon, it’s my first try). I am reading this book - Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook - which had let me think deeply about my relationship with my mom. A book I would highly recommend.
— Wei
Why you should move faster
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more.
The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you’re sitting around your apartment on a Sunday afternoon thinking of stuff to do, you’re probably not going to think of starting a blog post, because it’ll feel too expensive.
What’s worse, because you blog slowly, you’re liable to continue blogging slowly—simply because the only way to learn to do something fast is by doing it lots of times.
Learning about Einstein’s Time
Something that caught my eye during the week. I liked this explanation because it’s in depth yet understandable. We should have more physics explained this way.
How to think about your life’s purpose?
A list of questions to think about to get your life together. It’s a longer read, but you can find yourself introspecting on life in the end.
What is your purpose?
Tips on searching the Internet
Self-help on properly searching the Internet. There are many cool websites in it and a lot of small tips and tricks. I learned about Wellcome Collection today.
A List of Things that Don’t Work
wrote about things that people do that don’t make sense. Each of them are so relatable and true. My favorites are #7, #10, #12, and #31. Drop yours and any others that you thought of in the comments!
The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
I believe design is just good engineering. That’s why I tell my designers to always think like an engineer. So I set up really strict rules on how they are allowed to work . So for example, we’re only allowed to use six or eight colours in total, same with the typeface, we only write in lowercase with one font in a set of sizes that is in a system connected to a grid.
Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) by Dr. Andrew Huberman
NSDR is resting similar to deep sleep but without actual sleep. It is a practice that promotes profound relaxation and rejuvenation.
Henri Matisse: ‘Is Not Love the Origin of All Creation?’
For the artist creation begins with vision. To see is itself a creative operation, requiring an effort. Everything that we see in our daily life is more or less distorted by acquired habits
Nothing, I think, is more difficult for a true painter than to paint a rose because, before he can do so, he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted
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Great love is needed to achieve this effect, a love capable of inspiring and sustaining that patient striving towards truth, that glowing warmth and that analytic profundity that accompany the birth of any work of art. But is not love the origin of all creation?
From Picasso and Hokusai's Prussian Blue to Vermeer's shade of red: A history of art in 7 colours
Consider, for instance, Prussian Blue, the captivating hue that unexpectedly connects Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1831, with Pablo Picasso's The Blue Room, 1901. Had it not been for an accident in an alchemist's lab in Berlin in 1706, such works, and countless others besides by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet, would never have pulsed with such enduring mystery or power
Learn color theory in this fun video.
Color psychology and color harmony
Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents?
This article sparked a lot of interest in AI agents for me. A must read if you’re in the AI space now.
Mini Podcast!
chats with about unconventional career paths and lessons in love
I liked this part the most.
“People often assess someone they're thinking about dating in terms of who they are right now. They take a snapshot of the amount of money somebody's making or where they're living and even what their temperament is like day to day. And they think, that is the person that I'm with. But that's obviously not true. A person is going to change over time. But that doesn't mean you can't make an assessment. I just think when you're assessing people it's really important to look at trajectory. How do they change over their lives? How do they, as our mutual friend Graham says, move through their environment? Do they tend to get better and different over time, or do they get worse?”
What I’m Watching
Tokyo Vice
Holy this might be one of my favorite so far.
Tokyo Vice is a dark, gritty drama that builds intrigue from the very beginning. It’s so realistic in capturing the asian culture. The criminals have deep traditions with the police and crimes committed being violent and shocking. Definitely something that keep you binge watching.
I also enjoyed learning about the history of Yakuza. Hai!
Passionate Friends
Similar to Past Lives from the past issue, I see this as the classic western version. It’s thought provoking and gives me an intimate look the character’s mind to understand what she thought.
Another good but tearful depiction of love. 🥹
What I’m Listening
This is probably influenced by Tokyo Vice - Here’s a playlist of classic Japanese songs that brings you back to the 1980s.
That’s it for this issue. See you again next week :) Leave some comments! We are definitely excited to talk to all of you.