Medley 70: Fake news, marketing books, sexist AI, complex vs. complicated, and how to live longer
Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a good weekend.
New Article : “Fake News is a Real Problem”
If you pay attention, you’ll notice the news regularly make mistakes and misinterpret or misrepresent data when it’s an area you’re familiar with. So the concern is, what mistakes do you not realize it making in areas you’re not familiar with, and how do we become more intelligent consumers of news?
New Article 2 : “The 10 Best Marketing Books for Growing Any Business"
I frequently get asked what someone should read to step up their marketing game, and these are the 10 books that have helped me the most.
New Nat Chat : “How to Fund Your Passion through Side Gigs with Shelcy Joseph”
Shelcy has been using side gigs to break into the fashion world, and her story about how she’s sticking with her passion and making it work by any means necessary should be inspiring to anyone who’s on the fence about going after what they’re interested in.
New Book Notes : “The Sovereign Individual” by Rees-Mogg and Davidson (10/10). This is the best book I’ve read in a long time, I highly, HIGHLY recommend it. “The Power of Myth” by Joseph Campbell (9/10). Also phenomenal, this was a great week for book notes.
There’s a big difference between a problem or system being “complex” and being “complicated,” and depending on which it is, you have to think about the challenges differently.
This short video of Bob Ross painting rocks is mesmerizing.
There was an oral history of a 14,000 year old human society in British Columbia, and they just found fossil evidence supporting it’s existence.
When I was in Colorado, I noticed the people living in Telluride were all really healthy for their ages. That’s why I wasn’t surprised to see this data that people living at higher altitudes live longer.
A.I. technology when left to its own devices naturally becomes sexist and racist, so how do you account for that?
Many startups I've talked to don't like to hire programmers from coding bootcamps, so I'm not surprised that the industry is starting to shrink.
Silphium has probably gone extinct, but if it hasn't, it would be amazing to see it make a comeback. If you haven't heard of it, here's why it was worth it was weight in gold, and may have been the origin of the "heart" symbol.
Have a great week!
Nat