Elon Musk’s Mind // Dubai vs NYC // Job Perf // Social Class // Life in Weeks
Guys — this weeks reading list — a few days early as its a holiday here tomorrow and Thanskgiving on Thurs so a lot of people will be off (with some reading time on their hands?)
The must read article is on the mindset Elon Musk has to be able to do what he does; from the same blog — thinking about your life in weeks rather than years; NYT on sustaining high job performance; Dubai vs New York; Y-Combinators start-up playbook (even though starting-up is a bit tired now); Social class in the 21st Cent; why the kids of affluent US parents are under SO much pressure; then in the shortform section: unsecure fingerprints; genes of tough animals and Facebook’s 10 yr plan.
Media wise — getting thru ‘Silk Roads’ audiobook on 1.5x speed yielded from ‘Gangsters of Rome’ article last time (http://goo.gl/iGdgBi) — a great sweep of history from an Eastern Perspective and looking foward to Star Wars VII release in Dec (seen the trailers? https://goo.gl/XtF2ua). Cheers Shrik
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Elon Musk — how is he able to do what he does — turns out he is not human (at least not in the way he thinks) (WaitbutWhy)
http://goo.gl/EU42YR —
Your Life in Weeks — when you think about your life as 4680 weeks as opposed to 90 years you start to get a VERY different perspective (WaitbutWhy)
http://goo.gl/aPKii6 —
Dubai vs New York — why is only one of them full of surprises? Its all about the unplanned encounter… or ‘If you find other people irritating, Dubai is very attractive’ (NewStatesman)
http://goo.gl/UP3H5v —
Sustaining High Job Performance — putting in more hours won’t work anymore. Its about meeting ‘core energy needs’ (NYT)
http://goo.gl/VwTPYv —
Y-Combinator’s Start-up Playbook — The original masters generously documenting their insights, processes and thinking (Blog)
http://goo.gl/erlN5K —
Social Class in the 21st Century — Are you ‘established middle class’, ‘technical middle class’ or one of the ‘precariat’? A complex society needs new categories (Guardian)
http://goo.gl/4TCPbh —
The Kids of Affluent US parents are under pressure… if you want a place amount the elite business are inheritable… education is not… so if you don’t have the former you are pushed to get the latter. (Atlantic)
* Facebook’s 10 Year Plan: http://goo.gl/RDKf8y (FastCo)
* The Silk Roads: http://goo.gl/2bi5aE (Telegraph)
* Andy Grove on High Output mgmt: https://goo.gl/yOrfYY (Medium)
* How Fingerprints are NOT secure: http://goo.gl/YPHAfl (Hackaday)
* Genome of World’s Toughest Animal: http://goo.gl/g4XoCU (Atlantic) —