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It’s monday, so it’s also time for your powernotes. We are all slowly easing into 2022, trying to accomodate. With hope in our hearts, and worry in our minds. Will it be a good year? Will it be a difficult year? It’s a year of hope. So let’s start with a nice read on How to find Hope in 2022.

Also, you may want to check out this curated newsletter where 11 interesting stories are shared for generalists out there : 10+1 Things. I am also a subscriber, it’s a great newsletter.

TECH 👨‍💻

1. A selection of 2021’s ten most important technologies.

2. Create websites in less than 5 minutes, in a fun and easy way. With mmm.page.

3. Here are The 50 Greatest Moments in Internet History.

4. A great mobile app full of tricks, shortcuts, and skills that will help you in your everyday tasks. It’s called Life Hacks. For Google Play (Android) : HERE.

   For Apple (IOS) : HERE.

5. Check out the weirdest and most interesting tech at CES 2022 (Consumer Electronics show) which was held in Las Vegas.

CULTURE 🧬

1. A website with really good audiobook deals. Chirpbooks.

2. We all love something sweet. Check out the 102 Best Desserts in the World.

3. Here is a new website from Netflix with global top 10 lists. Worth checking it out.

4. Here are 22 predictions for 2022, from VOX.

5. An excellent video about curing and preventing a hangover.

PHILOSOPHY 📜

1. An interesting read about the Art of Negativity.

2. Step inside the Zen Zone and feel the Zen.

3. Even animals struggle with the concept of death and with mortality. What Animals Think of Death.

4. Is there a Link Between Freedom and Happiness?

5. We live in uncertain times. Here are six problem-solving mindsets for conditions of uncertainty.

Time for two great books. Just click on the book image to explore it on goodreads.

Here are five notes from the book:

1. I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

2. That's the thing about human life , there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

3. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

4. Language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.

5. I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it.

Here are five notes from the book:

1. Set up your work, your hobbies, and your social life so that you spend as much time inside your sweet spot as possible.

2. You're told that you're "in your head too much." There's another word for such people: thinkers.

3. I don't really like being the guest at someone else's party, because then I have to be entertaining. But I'll host parties because it puts you at the center of things without actually being a social person.

4. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately.

5. Westerners value boldness and verbal skill, traits that promote individuality, while Asians prize quiet, humility, and sensitivity, which foster group cohesion. If you live in a collective, then things will go a lot more smoothly if you behave with restraint, even submission.

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