The Most Interesting Things I read this Week — July 20, 2017

Mark A. Hodgkin
Jul 21, 2017 · 3 min read

New weekly post I’m working on with some of the most interesting things I’ve stumbled upon recently. For more, visit www.MarkAHodgkin.com.

Here (With Two Years of Exhausting Photographic Detail) is How To Write a Book, Ryan Holiday (Medium)
I am so excited to read Holiday’s latest, Perennial Seller. I have enjoyed all his previous books on Stoicism, media and marketing. In this fascinating piece, he details the entire process of writing and publishing this book.

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Is Facebook Ramping up its Test of an Explore Feed Alternative to News Feed?, David Cohen (AdWeek)
Signs are that Facebook could be working on a new “explore” feed. Company says they are testing a “complementary feed of popular articles, videos and photos, customized for each person based on content that might be interesting to them. We’ve heard from people that they want an easy way to explore new content they haven’t connected with yet.”

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How Twitter Fuels Anxiety, Laura Turner (The Atlantic)
I love Twitter (for the most part), but also see a darker side. This piece dives into some of the darker sides of our social networks. At the end of the day, I believe being cognizant of the risks and pitfalls of social is incredibly important.

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What Are You Doing About It? Reaching Deep Fluency with Mental Models, Shane Parish (Farnam Street)
I’m a huge fan of Farnam Street’s Mental Models, a framework of timeless wisdom designed to help us make better decisions. “The way to do that is to come up with rules, systems, parables, and processes of your own, or to copy someone else’s that are obviously sound.”. This is a great reminder on the need to implement knowledge into your day-to-day. Book knowledge matters little unless you act on it.

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NBA’s Sacramento Kings Unveil New Uniforms via Augmented Reality, Tommy Paladino (Next Reality 50)
The Kings are one of the NBA’s most cutting edge teams and use AR to debut their new Nike uniforms. Signs continue to point to increased application for AR one year after the PokemonGo craze

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Why SoundCloud’s Silence Would Be Deafening, John Paul Titlow (Fast Company)
SoundCloud has run in to a rough patch, culminating in a mass layoff of 40% of its workforce just before its 10-year anniversary. This piece looks at the vacuum that would be created by a SoundCloud collapse. The platform is huge for music on the Internet, especially independent content creators.

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Why we should keep believing in luck, Book of Life
The premise of luck is somewhat at odds with what we are conditioned to believe about life. This quick philosophical piece touches on a topic I’ve been thinking a lot about recently.

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