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how are you doing? Hope everything is fine and we really hope you like the new weekly powernotes. Let’s start the week together.

Here are this week’s technology, culture and philosophy notes:

TECH 👨‍💻

1. Create your very own private YouTube with Pyro. It’s a platform where you can add the videos you like, share them, and even grow a community.

2. Startup Colossal, founded by George Church and Ben Lamm, wants to bring the prehistoric mammoth back from the dead.

3. A finite social network where you get 100 posts.For life. It’s called Minus.

4. Ever wondered what webhooks are? This article will shed some light and explain what webhooks are and how they work.

5. Facebook launches Ray-Ban Stories: First-Generation Smart Glasses.

CULTURE 🧬

1. A Spotify playlist with vintage songs. Autumnal Jazz.

2. David Lynch opened his own club in Ibiza, on the beach. It’s called El Silencio.

3. New analysis of Michelangelo’s shoes indicates that he stood 5 feet 2 inches tall. How Tall Was Michelangelo?

4. A great youtube channel about….Korean cooking. Future Neighbor.

5. Let the waves hit your feet, and the sand be your seat. Listen to the ocean vibes, with Defonic.

PHILOSOPHY 📜

1. Learn about Lao Tzu and his teachings. The Man Behind The Way: Lao Tzu & Daoist Spirituality.

2. Here are 5 Ancient Stoic Tactics for Modern Life.

3. A great philosophy youtube channel. Philosophize This !

4. “Be realistic: Plan for a miracle” - a quote from popular philosopher Osho. Here are 7 beautiful life lessons from Osho.

5. Learn more about Buddhism. The Dharma: The Teachings of the Buddha

Each week, we have two books for you to discover. In bite-sized fashion.

Our fist book this week is: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

Here are five notes from the book:

1. There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.

2. His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.

3. Time ensures children never know their parents young.

4. Faces change with life's toll, but eyes remain a window to what was...

5. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light.

The second book of the week is: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.

Here are five notes from the book:

1. Luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

2. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields.

3. No history of modern science can leave capitalism out of the picture. A project that can’t increase production and profits has little chance of finding a sponsor.

4. A country’s credit rating is far more important to its economic well-being than are its natural resources. Credit ratings indicate the probability that a country will pay its debts.

5. The most important economic resource is trust in the future, and this resource is constantly threatened by thieves and charlatans.

Each week, we present three quotes from great thinkers, great minds, and great people that live or have lived in this world. We all have something to learn from each other.

American writer Willa Cather about art:

Art is a matter of enjoyment through the five senses. Unless you can see the beauty all around you everywhere, and enjoy it, you can never comprehend art. Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and the richness of life.

American writer of science fiction Kim Stanley Robinson about the dangers of capitalism for science:

I’m very pro-science, but everything can be bought, and even science is in danger. I thought, because science was doing the real work, that capitalism was its parasite, like the puppet masters in the Heinlein story. I still think that’s true, but in global capitalism, money really can direct scientific research; we still have the war machine, for instance. And big pharmaceuticals direct a lot of biological research, ignoring certain problems and paying attention to others, depending on the potential for profit. Just because science is doing the real work it doesn’t mean it’s in control; the puppet master can call the shots, the parasite could be strong enough to kill the host. That happens a lot in nature. It’s a scary, scary century.

Entrepreneur and computer scientist Arthur van Hoff on revision:

Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one.

Each week, we have two portraits of nature for you. Great images from our beautiful world. Because we all need a fresh breath of nature in our lives.

We read a lot of stuff from all over the web. Every week, we have three interesting articles and stories for you. Here are this week’s reads :

🟪 How to stay calm during a confrontation, according to an expert. A psychologist explains why it’s so hard to keep a handle on your emotions when your buttons are pushed, and what you can do to have more productive conversations. 

🟩 Letting Biodiversity Getting Under Our Skin. Some aspects of dirty living can be healthy. A new study posits that the decline of plant and animal diversity in cities may be linked to the recent surge of allergies and other chronic inflammatory diseases.

🟨 The great sleep divide. Sleep deficits are robbing poor people and racial minorities of health and earning power.

Each week, we have three interesting finds for you, from all over the web. Just interesting stuff we stumble upon and that we love to share with you.

🟣 Discover prehistoric life like never before. Museum Alive AR With David Attenborough.

🟢 David Perell is a writer, hosts a podcast, and does other interesting stuff. If you want to find out more about him, click here. Here are 50 Ideas that changed his life, and could also change yours. Check them out.

🟡 Black films made from 1915 to 1979. Here’s the Black Film Archive.

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