(Saturday)'s Too Good Not to Share: 6.3.23
It finally happened. After 3 years of faithfully dodging everything the pandemic threw at me, I finally caught COVID. I thought I was invincible, but alas, I'm just normal like every other human. Thankfully, symptoms are mild and I'm already on the road to recovery. Nothing that a little nap, OJ, and Tylenol can't handle.
Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend. These could be articles, podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, or other great newsletters.
In short, these are the most interesting of the interesting stuff I've come across.
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Bobby Hundreds — Building an Iconic Streetwear Brand and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show
Bobby Hundreds (@bobbyhundreds) is an artist, designer, and storyteller based in Los Angeles. He is best known as the co-founder and chief creative officer of global streetwear brand The Hundreds. He is also behind the Family Style Food Festival and the NFT project Adam Bomb Squad.
This chat was insightful deep dive into how building companies through a community first lense can work. I especially enjoyed how much I learned about Korean history and culture from him also.
Listen to the full talk here.
Expectations Debt
So here’s the question: What do you call the top-of-the-world status Amazon had in 2021? Was it a gift? A reward for hard work? The natural swings of capitalism?
Yes, all of those.
But there’s another way to look at it: An expectations debt.
Expectations were so high in 2021 that investors and employees had to achieve extraordinary things just to break even. When results were merely good, they felt terrible.
Expectations are like a debt that must be repaid before you get any joy out of what you’re doing.
Read the full article here [5 mins].
How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
In quantum mechanics there's a concept called the path integral. The path integral is used by physicists to understand all of the possible paths a particle can take when moving from one point to another.
What they are theoricizing is that this concept can be applied more broadly to show that our reality is just the sum of everything that could have possibly happened.
I found that thought to be pretty mind-blowing. The article is a bit dense on the science but it's interesting none the less.
Read the full explainer here [10 mins].
Leave today better than yesterday ✌️.
Album of the weekend - "A Kid From Yerevan" by Full Crate.