Week 2 - Show Your Work

Hey!

Thank you for supporting me in my journey as I continue to grow and learn.

You are important to me, and I’m grateful to have you in my life  

Blessings,

-T

This Week’s Book

Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, by Austin Kleon

The Book In One Sentence: It's important to show and share your work, and the process of creating your work, to cultivate community, opportunity, and feedback.

Rating: 8 / 10

Last Week's Book: Ultralearning by Scott Young 

Next Week - The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, et al

Updates

The goal for reading these books is to translate their information into knowledge, that knowledge into wisdom, and that wisdom into tangible value. Here are the actions I've taken since reading the first two books to start applying what I've learned:

Ultralearning

• What I’ve done:

  • I used the inspiration that came from reading the book to start new learning projects that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise:

• Started to learn how to sing and play "The Dance And The Wonder" by Sam Garrett on ukulele (will share a video in a future email)

• Started teaching myself a programming language and framework (Dart and Flutter) to build an app idea I've had for awhile

• What I still plan to do:

  • Create specific learning plans for both projects, with learning maps, deliverables and delivery dates. I'm going to map the programming project to the fuller Ultralearning framework and use more of the tools mentioned in the book.

Show Your Work

• What I’ve done:

  • I created these book analyses and emails to show my reading/learning journey over the course of this year

• I’ve started to share what I’m working on with my friends and family by word of mouth

• What I still plan to do:

  • I’m considering setting up an event on zoom where anyone interested can jump on the call and give a 5 min presentation on what they are working on (if that sounds interesting to you, let me know!)

• Build a website to persist the things I’m sharing in these emails, and to use as a launch pad for other projects

Links

Music (~7 min) - Spirit Bird - Xavier Rudd 

Podcast (~62min)- The Science Behind Why We Age - 1st episode of an 8 part series on why we age and how to reverse the process with Harvard PhD Genealogist David Sinclair 

Video (~34min) - The Map of Quantum Computing - A visual mapping of where quantum computing is today, and the different approaches to quantum computation being used 

Video (~4min) - The Real You (Alan Watts) - This video had a big impact on me as I was starting my journey into discovering myself 

Music - Girls Girls - Icona Pop (This is a guilty pleasure pop song that I recently rediscovered