Here is your dose of “The Weekly Picks”, a curated list of what I’m enjoying.
This week's edition is dedicated to "love and work".
A 20 second summary of what you can find more about down bellow:
🧐 A quote by Freud
👨💻 A blog post by Paul Graham
📕 A book (and a video) by Ray Dalio
🤠 A music by Ennio Morricone
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.Sigmund Freud
How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham
I think for most people who want to do great work, the right strategy is not to plan too much. At each stage do whatever seems most interesting and gives you the best options for the future. I call this approach "staying upwind." This is how most people who've done great work seem to have done it.Even when you've found something exciting to work on, working on it is not always straightforward. There will be times when some new idea makes you leap out of bed in the morning and get straight to work. But there will also be plenty of times when things aren't like that.You don't just put out your sail and get blown forward by inspiration. There are headwinds and currents and hidden shoals. So there's a technique to working, just as there is to sailing.
Principles by Ray Dalio
I have been reading Principles by Ray Dalio, and I find it fascinating. Dalio is an extremely clever and rational thinker. His idea of meritocracy, along with a logical understanding of how the world works as a convergence of evolution and value, helps bring together some amazing ideas in a thought-provoking manner. While reading, I was introduced to his 2013 video "How the Economic Machine Really Works", which attempts to simplify the economy in a way that is easy to understand.
The Ecstasy Of Gold by Ennio Morricone
"The Ecstasy of Gold" is a musical composition by Ennio Morricone, included in his score for the 1966 Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The piece is played while Tuco (played by Eli Wallach) frantically searches a cemetery for the grave that holds $200,000 in gold coins. Sung by Edda Dell'Orso, it is one of Morricone's most well-known themes and one of the most iconic pieces of cinematic score in history.”
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