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Week 9 - The Power Of Now
Thomas Mulhern
March 04, 2022
Hey!
This should be a good one.
This week’s book was so impactful, that I’m looking at building an evening routine around re-listening to it in chunks as I lay in bed falling asleep every night. I spent more time justifying which parts I could NOT highlight than what I should, because I literally could have highlighted the entire book.
It made me realize that there are books out there that have the power to transform your entire reality, and I made some updates to the book list for the rest of the year to try and get more content with that level of impact.
“Life is short. Read good books.”
Also, this week's links and updates might be the juiciest so far! Thank you for any presence you give to these things; if your day is even a modicum better from any of this, it was all worth it.
Blessings,
-T
This Week’s Book
The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Book In One Sentence: An exploration of the power that the present moment (the Now) has to release us from all suffering and fear, of how we can use the Now to escape the illusion of the life/ death duality, and of how we can use the Now to perpetuate a connection to the unmanifested source of all existence.
Rating: 11/10 - I’m going to reserve this rating for books that seem to have a timeless message that can perhaps never be fully Known, only understood/embodied to the extent of our individual capacity at the time of reading it; wisdom that is simply appreciated in different ways through different lenses at different stages of life.
Last Week's Book: Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Next Week: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Updates
This a progress update for the app I've been working on: the app is a data collection interface that makes it easy to track what's most important to you. What you'll see in this video is the front end development I've done so far: I've created a main page with buttons that each lead to their own page when pressed.
Each page has its own set of buttons, sliders, drop down menus etc. that richly collect arbitrarily important data that will get sent to Google Sheets. My goal is to have a working MVP by the end of March. The "Main Learning Project" graph from the previously shared dashboards is tracking time spent on the project for anyone interested.
The new distribution platform I'm using as of this week (Beehiiv) stores all of my previous emails (and all those sweet, sweet links), and makes it much easier to subscribe/unsubscribe. The button will take you to the archive; the link is for sharing with anyone you think could benefit from these emails.
Links
Blog Post (90 min read) - The Cook And The Chef: Elon Musk’s Secret Sauce - One of the most impactful pieces of writing on the process of thinking that I have ever read (plus it has stick figure drawings); I reread it every few years.
Podcast (~2:00:00) - The Lex Fridman Podcast: Mark Zuckerberg - Lex Fridman and Mark Zuckerberg talk about the Metaverse, Facebook, Instagram, and the hard problems faced by social media companies.
Music (~13 min) - Love Song by Mardaleva - 50% Burning Man, 50% Tulum, 100% beautiful.
Person - Rob Dyrdek - Rob Dyrdek became my newest role model after watching him on the MFM and Tom Bilyeu podcasts. The app I’m working on maps very closely to a part of the system he describes using to get his life to where it is today, and I’m looking forward to the day where the app is developed enough to show it to him.
Video (~3:00:00) - How To Build A Second Brain In Notion - A second brain is essentially a digital system with 3 parts:
1. Capturing important things (ideas, images, work, links, quotes, etc.) to get them out of our biological brains and free up space to be more present
2. Summarizing those important things and connecting it for pattern recognition
3. Using all of it to create tangible results in the real world
This is going on the future project list; it’s the system I plan to use until it makes sense to have a chief of staff and two assistants like Rob Dyrdek that can run something more cohesive for me.
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