Friday's Too Good Not to Share: 2.11.22
A few quick thoughts:
- Can't believe LeBron has to play with Russell Westbrook for the rest of the season. He doesn't deserve this – see these lowlights to understand.
- The Tinder Swindler has to be one of the best TV show names of all time. I may watch it just based on the great title.
- All stress comes from judgement. I learned in my coaching program and it has deeply resonated with me. Remove judgment, remove stress.
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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What Was the TED Talk? | Some Thoughts on the "Inspiresting"
This is long read [21 mins according to the Pocket App] but it's an excellent examination of TED Talks. No need to agree, but it forces good reflection on why stories are powerful while ideas are never enough.
The story goes like this: there are problems in the world that make the future a scary prospect. Fortunately, though, there are solutions to each of these problems, and the solutions have been formulated by extremely smart, tech-adjacent people. For their ideas to become realities, they merely need to be articulated and spread as widely as possible. And the best way to spread ideas is through stories — hence Gates’s opening anecdote about the barrel. In other words, in the TED episteme, the function of a story isn’t to transform via metaphor or indirection, but to actually manifest a new world. Stories about the future create the future. Or as Chris Anderson, TED’s longtime curator, puts it, “We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world… may be simply to stand up and say something.” And yet, TED’s archive is a graveyard of ideas. It is a seemingly endless index of stories about the future — the future of science, the future of the environment, the future of work, the future of love and sex, the future of what it means to be human — that never materialized. By this measure alone, TED, and its attendant ways of thinking, should have been abandoned.
Read more here.
The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich for Grownups
No one in the world loves PB&J more than me.
Though I hate everything this home chef has done to the classic sandwich, this video gives an AMAZING history of why this sandwich has become an American staple. Long story short, it's the most American sandwich ever and the epitome of mass consumption (which makes it even more American I suppose).
Watch the full video here to see him make all of the ingredients from scratch.
Sidenote: I'll be releasing Duane's Perfect (Don't Debate Me) Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich recipe next week.
Ownership and the American Dream
We need to have more serious conversations and run experiments on how to recharge the American Dream. Right now, it's not working for enough people.
I also love a good rant and one of my favorite newsletters laid out the case for why we should be pushing for more ownership in America. The story of Saving Sam and Investing Ingrid is illustrative of this point.
You cannot work and save your way past investing.
This becomes even more pronounced over the next 30 years:
This post is a good jumping off point to thinking about some new ideas. Happy to chat more with anyone that wants to talk about this topic at length to create action.
Read more here.
Leave today better than yesterday ✌️.