deepculture ▪️ 120
Tuesday ◾ May 14◾ 2024
Here are this week’s…
A very nice read. Five Rules for Life.
A good Canva alternative, if you want to create graphics online. Snappa.
A useful article that will show you How to Delete the Data Google Has on You.
If you tend to save lots of bookmarks, but then forget about them, this nice tool will send you an email every Sunday with two bookmarks for you to revisit. Bookmarkish.
A collection of valuable Short Essays by Dee Hock, the founder of VISA.
A very interesting collection of Memos, written for an internal audience, that help shed light on how people really think inside institutions.
An AI app that turns your books into audiobooks. Acryl.
Daniel Kahnemann was a giant in the field of psychology. He died on March 27, 2024. The following read will present some of his work. Remembering Daniel Kahneman: 7 Theories That Can Help You Understand How You Think.
A great app that will help you easily collect and organize links. Plinky.
A great read about humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life, that was considered laughable nonsense in the past, but today, it’s a serious and scientific activity. Alien Life is No Joke.
BONUS: An excellent short read. Your Values Explain Basically Everything You Do.
BONUS CONTENT
A beautiful, heartwarming piece from Lisa Olivera, that lists 37 things she would like to remember this and next year. What I’d Tell Her.
Empathy, if understood the way ordinary people define it, is anything but overrated…Empathy: Probably A Good Thing.
Your ultimate AI assistant. WhatWide.
An interesting social calendar app. Evo.
A collection of leading SaaS and creator landing pages, which also includes explanations. Landing Pages Explained.
A digital collection that contains over 3000 illustrations taken from the most significant illustrated editions of Shakespeare’s plays in the Victorian period. Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive.
A safe and clinically validated AI chatbot for mental healthcare. Youper.
A really good self-care app. Aloe Bud.
🥑 Sahil Bloom attended Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, an event that attracts thousands of investors and great minds. Here are some of the ideas he collected from the event. 9 Ideas from a Weekend With Legends.
🍎 An interesting article that shows five types of questions to ask during strategic decision-making. The Art of Asking Smarter Questions.
🥕 Why do positive impressions produced in one area positively influence our opinions in another area? The Halo Effect.
🍉 Seneca on Living in the Now
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
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“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
🥦 The Pulitzer Prize Winners by year, from 1917 until 2024. The Pulitzer Prizes.