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A 20 second summary of what you can find more about down bellow:
🇯🇵 Misogi
🎲 Refugee Roullette: Disparities in asylum adjudication
🪙 A SEC ruling that could set a precedent in the crypto space.
🎧 Sabato by Suite Soprano
Misogi - one year-defining activity every year
Misogi is a purifying ritual that was invented by the Japanese. It usually involves making a pilgrimage to an icy waterfall, where standing underneath the cold water symbolizes intense purification.
Jesse Itzler describes the Western interpretation of Misogi as follows:
“The notion around the misogi is, you do something so hard 1 time a year, that has an impact on the other 364 days of the year. Take on challenges that radically expand your sense of what's possible. There are just two rules: you have a fifty-per-cent chance of success at best, and it doesn't kill you... Does it make your jaw drop? That's a good litmus test for whether something can be a misogi or not.”
Refugee Roulette
I've been listening to the audiobook version of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment , which introduced me to the interesting idea of noise in human judgment.
This article explores the complex idea of noise and its impact on judges' decisions:
Asylum applicants whose cases were adjudicated in the federal immigration court in Miami had a 5% chance of prevailing with one of that court's judges and an 88% chance of prevailing before another judge in the same building. Half of the Miami judges deviated by more than 50% from the court's mean grant rate for Colombian cases.
A SEC ruling that could set a precedent in the crypto space.
Learn more about it here.
What I’ve been listening to
This is a music that my friend, José Amorim, introduced me to.
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