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To: Gradually's OGs
December 18, 2020
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Top Takeaways of the Week

Cheers to the newly subscribed OGs🧃

As mentioned in yesterday’s issue of Gradual Daily, this will be the last email you’ll receive from me this year! I will see you back here on Monday Jan. 4th, 2021 with some FIRE curated content. I also have some pretty dope surprises to announce, so stay tuned for that! 

As always, thank you so much for being an OG subscriber and I hope this newsletter has brought you value in 2020. Stay safe and Happy Holidays from one OG to another! 

P.S. To the best of your abilities, please recharge your mental/physical batteries. 2021 is going to be a year and a ½. We’ll get through it as we get through everything, though…brick by brick…gradually.

If this is your first-ever issue, below you’ll find the top takeaways from the most valuable curated pieces of content from this week (12/14/20) that aim to make you wiser, wealthier, and healthier — gradually (aka the digest of the digital vitamins we consumed this week).

Wisdom
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Top Takeaways of the Week  by Patrick Mcgraw, Stew Fortier, Joshua Rothman, and Sriram Krishnan

Takeaways

[Gradual Daily 42]

  • “While some would interpret technology to be a driverless, chaotic system made all the more destructive by its attachment to a market economy, [Kevin] Kelly argues that it’s part of a system acting on its own vague accord, interacting with humans as a way to further itself.” — Patrick Mcgraw

[Gradual Daily 43]

  • “The greatest underutilized asset is people’s time they spend uninspired.” — Sari Azout

[Gradual Daily 44]

  • “Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about the unreal ones. Still, there will be moments when, for good or for ill, we feel confronted by our unrealized possibilities; they may even, through their persistence, shape us.” — Joshua Rothman
  • “Part of the work of being a modern person seems to be dreaming of alternate lives in which you don’t have to dream of alternate lives. We long to stop longing, but we also wring purpose from that desire.” — Joshua Rothman

[Gradual Daily 45]

  • “I think a lot of success in life is how good you are at making long term choices.” — Tobi Lütke
  • “I believe that the job we all have in life is to acquire knowledge and wisdom and then share it.” — Tobi Lütke

Hope you enjoyed this week’s takeaways!



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Wealth
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Top Takeaways of the Week  by Greg Isenberg, KP, Sam Hinkie, and Li Jin

Takeaways

[Gradual Daily 42]

  • “There’s never been a better time to start a studio. And for employees thinking about joining a studio, try it. Jumping from project to project, startup to startup makes everyday fresh and interesting.” — Greg Isenberg

[Gradual Daily 43]

  • “Be around doers, givers, and optimists. The future is built by people who take action not the ones who only find flaws in every new idea.” — KP 

[Gradual Daily 44]

  • “One of the things I want to do is compound trust with a relatively small set of people over a long period of time…shouldn’t you be trying to play a more infinite game, where everyone trusts each other more and more, and you’re trying to compound that trust over time? The very notion of that, a lot of people are uninterested in.” — Sam Hinkie

[Gradual Daily 45]

  •  “Societies and platforms flourish when there is a path for everyone to have upward mobility, achieve financial security, and learn and grow. The beautiful thing is, in the real world as well as in the digital world, it’s up to us to build this path.” — Li Jin

Hope you found these valuable!



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Health
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Top Takeaways of the Week  by Anahad O’Connor, Clay Skipper, John Green, and David Perell

Takeaways

[Gradual Daily 42]

  • ”Diet and sleep are entwined. Improving one can help you improve the other and vice versa, creating a positive cycle where they perpetuate one another.” — Dr. Susan Redline

[Gradual Daily 43]

  • “The actions and the experiences that your brain makes today become your brain’s predictions for tomorrow. So making an effort to cultivate new experiences and learn new things today is an investment in who you will be tomorrow.” — Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett

[Gradual Daily 44]

  • John Green maximizes for quality attention. “Which is the only resource we really have in the end is our attention. Where do you invest your attention and does that make life better for you? For people you care about? For your community and distant communities?” He concludes that doing the opposite is a sure way to burn out.

[Gradual Daily 45]

  • “Most friends can’t really help each other. Since they don’t communicate with depth, honesty, or frequency, they gloss over their true challenges, many of which are taboo to discuss. But the shine on top will never fix the cracks beneath the surface.” — David Perell

Any thoughts on these?



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