How to taste ice cream 💎 Issue #31
Plus: Pyramids' secrets and analysis of your favorite fictional coaches.
Happy Friday!
What’s up? 📚
I added a third book to my notes section. Getting Real is a book about building web applications, and software in general, in a focused, iterative and purposeful way. The lessons go from marketing to programming, passing through organization and design. Take a look a see what you think.
New to me 💡
30 mental models to add to your thinking toolbox | 10 min read
I shared some articles like these in the past and what’s distinct about this one (besides some mental models that I never heard of) is the sections on how to use them and how to build our own. Keep your tools sharp and handy.
Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids | 3 min read
Who doesn’t have a guilty pleasure related to the mysteries of the pyramids? Apparently, Sir Isaac took it to another level, as he did with the 20 other domains of expertise where he went to another level and beyond.
Chaotic Evil? Lawful Good? Here Are The Best Football Coaches In Movies | 5 min watch
If you have good memories from some (American) football movie you will want to check out this analysis on the behaviors and performance of the most famous fictional coaches.
That's a ten | 30 sec watch
You have been appreciating ice cream all wrong your entire life.
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A most biblical tweet 🌊
This app I found 🎧
Listenlater.fm | Send the articles you don’t have time to read to this app and let it build a podcast feed, just for you, with those stories “read” just for you.
This week in a gif 🎅
(I don’t know if you noticed, but Christmas is just 14 days away!)
High note ⚡
Last week’s most clicked link was How to buy gifts that people actually want.
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Until next week,
Filipe