Here are this week’s links. Hoping to get to a few original blog posts soon. Please direct me to your blogs or podcasts dealing with performance.
Body:
- Aubrey De Grey on Upgraded Ape chats life-extension and gives his top seven actions to be proactive on extending your life [Upgraded Ape]
- Why your multivitamins should stink — and THE multivitamin Ben Greenfield recommends [Ben GreenField]
- Men’s fertility testing [Hunter Walk]
Mind:
- Top performers reveal their favorite books- (Tony’s Robbins, Peter Thiel and more [Tim Ferriss]
- Storytelling is powerful in business – here’s a look at why our brains like a good narrative [HBR]
- Temptation comes at night [NYTimes]
- What can we learn from Plato? Here are four gems [Farnam St]
- We don’t know what we don’t know [psmag]
- Renewal: how executives bounce back from stress [HBR]
[Adults often grow out of it]…Perhaps one explanation is that adults have far more freedom to choose the environment in which they live and the kind of work they do so that it better matches their cognitive style and reward preferences. If you were a restless kid who couldn’t sit still in school, you might choose to be an entrepreneur or carpenter, but you would be unlikely to become an accountant. But what is happening at the level of the brain that may explain this spontaneous “recovery”?
Money:
- Managing your money is about managing emotions [wealthofcommonsense]
- Fred Wilson on averaging in and averaging out of positions [AVC]
- Benedict Evan’s latest presentation on the exponential growth of mobile [a16z]
Products:
- Photomath solves math equations with your camera
- About.me launches Intro – business cards
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