🧠The best books everyone should read in their lifetime
🚀 updates on the 25 in 25 challenge and 5 cool things this week | Wisdom Letter #148
Quick update on my 25in25 challenge.
The first project - the indie masterminds program sold out last week, group calls and hot seats start this week 🤩
The 2nd project crossed $100 in revenue, so I’m working hard at it, to ship it by this Tuesday.
Wish me luck 😅
If you’re wondering how I am coming up with ideas for products and services, I’ve identified 4 ways of coming up with business ideas.
I wrote a quick blog post with examples and results I’ve achieved with this framework:
📚 Book Recommendations
For years I read books based on what the “experts” and the “gurus” recommended me to read.
Some recommendations were okay, but some were pure BS.
So last week I asked on Twitter what was the 1 book you thought everyone should read in their lifetime.
And I got 129 incredible book recommendations with real reasons from real people.
These were books that literally changed people’s lives.
The next book I read is coming from the replies to this tweet:
What’s the 1 book YOU think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?
Hit reply and let me know, I will add it to my reading list.
📖 5 Cool Things
“If you meet a jerk once a month, you’ve met a jerk. If you meet jerks every day, you’re a jerk.”
This is one of the many gems of wisdom shared by Sahil Bloom:
“Life is almost always a framing problem, and wealth is no exception to this. To say that money is complicated is a cliche worthy of a thousand eye rolls, but when it comes to our ongoing relationship with it, I find that it’s quite simple to explain and distill.”
From Money is the Megaphone of Identity by Lawrence Yeo
Big fan of Lawrence and his blog - More to That.
This is one of my all-time favorite pieces of writing. Do read.
“We only need to spend 2% of global GDP to prevent catastrophic climate change”
It’s so hard to believe, and it’s so crazy that we’re still not spending that money.
Yuval Noah Harari explains in this Ted video:
The Actual Cost of Preventing Climate Breakdown.
This is a very important video, it’s only 10 minutes long, watch it and share it with your friends.
“…scientists determined that in mice with mild Covid-19 infections, the virus disrupted the normal activity of several brain cell populations and left behind signs of inflammation. They believe that these findings may help explain some of the cognitive disruption experienced by Covid-19 survivors and provide potential pathways for therapies.”
Covid-19 causes “brain fog”, and scientists are trying to find a way to fix it with therapy. Read more in “The Secrets of Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Are Starting to Lift” from Wired magazine.
Should Elon Musk buy Twitter? Is it ethical? Should 1 person have so much power and influence?
Listen to this podcast for an interesting debate:
“Debate: Elon Musk, Billionaires, Ethics, and Role Models with Sahil Lavingia and Justin Jackson” | Indie Hackers Podcast.
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