February 21, 2022
This is Kei and Kazuki,
founders of Glasp 👋
We pick up 3 good articles that we found this week.
Hopefully, it will bring new perspectives and help
you develop your career and learning journey.
This Week's Reading List 📚
Why
Winners Keep Winning – Of Dollars And Data
by Nick Maggiulli (10min)
This article explains the Matter
Effect. Starting conditions are so important to
determine long-term outcomes. Our life is affected
by happenstance and serendipity a lot and they are
not controllable. The only thing you can do is to
focus on your efforts. Some of us are born with
more/fewer advantages than others, but we should not
let that determine how hard we try and make an
effort.
How
to be useless | Psyche Guides by Helen
De Cruz & Pauline Lee (27min)
Zhuangzi argued that we can reclaim our lives, and
be happier and more fulfilled if we become more
useless. It is fine for you to simply be. We need to
reject the idea of use altogether. Societies based
on usefulness do not make us happier or more in
harmony with nature. You are not a mere tool in the
building of a larger project, or a vessel in a grand
ritual; you are a glorious part of the greater
Universe, and when you become one with the Dao – you
become your true self.
Maria
Popova: In a new world of informational
abundance, content curation is a new kind of
authorship by Maria Popova
(19min)
If information discovery plays such a central role
in how we make sense of the world in this new media
landscape, then it is a form of creative labor in
and of itself. And yet our current normative models
for crediting this kind of labor are completely
inadequate if they exist at all. Finding a way to
acknowledge content curation and information
discovery as a form of creative labor, and to codify
this acknowledgment, is the next frontier in how we
think about “intellectual property” in the
information age.
See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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Today's
Quote: “No one really knows why they
are alive until they know what they’d die
for.” - Martin Luther King
Jr.
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