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To: Gradually's OGs
February 12, 2021
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Top Takeaways of the Week

Cheers to the newly subscribed OGs🧃

And after one hop, jump, trip, and a skip, it’s already Friday! Hopefully, you didn’t have too many trips — to fewer trips next week 🤜 🤛

This week’s curations ranged from everything to the distraction epidemic to micro-entrepreneurs to a literal genius formula. I hope you enjoyed consuming this week’s curations as much as I did!

Want to fall down the most valuable rabbit hole of your life? Check out our archive here.

 

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 (2/8/21) that aimed 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 Craig Wright, Paul J. Griffiths, Saloni Dattani, Nathaniel Bechhofer & Tiago Forte

Takeaways

[Gradual Daily 66]

  • “A genius is a person of extraordinary mental powers whose original works or insights change society in some significant way for good or for ill across cultures and across time.” — Craig Wright
  • G = S x N x D
    • Genius (G) = Significance (S) of the degree of impact or change effected x Number (N) of people impacted x Duration (D) of impact

[Gradual Daily 67]

  • “Perhaps you’ll be a dilettante: You’ll love what you think about and you’ll think hard about it, but you’ll be easily bored and won’t think about anything for long…Clever people—quick studies—are often like this. They have properly intellectual gifts, but they lack the patience for attention’s long, slow gaze…” — Paul J. Griffiths

[Gradual Daily 68]

  • “Many critics of open science contend that radical reform asks too much of researchers, but this kind of specialization would fill two needs with one deed: it would reduce the burden of work placed on each individual researcher while increasing the quality and quantity of science conducted by researchers overall.” — Saloni Dattani & Nathaniel Bechhofer

[Gradual Daily 69]

  • “People tend to choose difficult goals, like going on a run every morning, meditating an hour per day, or studying a new language every evening…The problem with continuing to rely on sustained momentum is that any hiccup or missed day is interpreted as a failure. High stakes means, sooner or later, a long way to fall.” — Tiago Forte

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Wealth
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Top Takeaways of the Week  by Li Jin, Balaji S. Srinivasan, Devin Finzer & Jerry Neumann

Takeaways

[Gradual Daily 66]

  • What is a micro-entrepreneur? “…or free agents, creators, freelancers, and independent workers who utilize digital platforms to make a living by leveraging skills and knowledge in the absence of a traditional employer-employee relationship.” — Li Jin

[Gradual Daily 67]

  • “In June 2010 the value of all cryptocurrency worldwide was $0. As of today, it’s $1.1 trillion. Bitcoin alone is worth more than $600 billion. That’s more valuable than any of the tech unicorns founded in the last decade, more valuable than Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, and Slack combined.” — Balaji S. Srinivasan

[Gradual Daily 68]

  • “…before cryptocurrencies emerged, we’ve had non-fungible digital assets since the dawn of the internet. Domain names, event tickets, in-game items, even handles on social networks like Twitter or Facebook, are all non-fungible digital assets; they just vary in their tradeability, liquidity, and interoperability.” — Devin Finzer

[Gradual Daily 69]

  • “Uncertainty can create a no-go zone around a new market, allowing a startup to build without competition for some period of time, but the startup’s management has to remain aware that if they are successful, competition will eventually arrive. Uncertainty creates space and time, but only a limited amount. Wise startup management will make use of what time they have to build a moat.” — Jerry Neumann

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Health
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Top Takeaways of the Week  by Katy Waldman, Andrew Sullivan, Lawrence Yeo, Gill Johnson & Willem Kuyken

Takeaways

[Gradual Daily 66]

  • Kross writes, “We are perpetually slipping away from the present into the parallel, nonlinear world of our minds.” Katy continues, “our ‘default state’ is a rich zone of remembrance, musing, projection. This is a quiet rejoinder to New Age wisdom—people are simply not designed to ‘live in the moment…’” — Ethan Kross

[Gradual Daily 67]

  • “…this new epidemic of distraction is our civilization’s specific weakness. And its threat is not so much to our minds, even as they shape-shift under the pressure. The threat is to our souls. At this rate, if the noise does not relent, we might even forget we have any.” — Andrew Sullivan

[Gradual Daily 68]

  • “The irony of the self is that in order to lose it, you have to know it well. In our default state, we don’t know who we are because the self moves along the tide of circumstance. The wind of emotion blows it one way, the current of happenstance takes it elsewhere. This makes us perpetually confused, resulting in a disconnect between who we think we are, and who we know we want to be.” — Lawrence Yeo

[Gradual Daily 69]

  • “…mindfulness is our innate capacity to be aware of our experience as it happens. In any moment, what we attend to is processed by our minds to create our reality: where we place our attention shapes our perception of our world. When we are mindful, we guide that attention to the present moment.” — Gill Johnson & Willem Kuyken

Hope you enjoyed this week’s curations and takeaways. If you’d like to share any valuable pieces of content that you come across, feel free to submit them to our subreddit  🙂



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