Every time I’m sick I get reminded of what the historian Thomas Fuller once wrote:

“Health is not valued until sickness comes.”

The Amazing Things & Ideas List

• BOOK:

  A book I’m reading this week

The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch

• VIDEO:

  Kobe Bryant on tolerating pain

“When the game is more important than the injury itself, you don’t feel that damn injury—not at that time.”

One of the most motivational clips I’ve come across:

Watch it here.

• QUOTE:

  Feynman on the importance of understanding results

It is very dangerous to have such a policy in teaching: to teach students only how to get certain results rather than how to do an experiment with scientific integrity.

— Richard P. Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

• POEM:

  “To You” by Walt Whitman

  Stranger, if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me,
        why should you not speak to me?
  And why should I not speak to you?

  — From "Inscriptions" from Leaves of Grass, 1891

New podcast episode

#4 – Jay Topp: Dropping Out, Being a Digital Nomad and the Arctic Circle:

Jay is a digital nomad and one of the coolest people I’ve met.

• We talk about the flaws in the education system and how Jay escaped it.

• Jay shares the most profound thing he learned upon traveling to 57 countries.

• We explore who digital nomads are and the reasons why Jay is creating a documentary about them situated in a very unique place.

• Jay shares what “home” means to him.

• And much more.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

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Arjun

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