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Constantly Curious - Edition #35

Constantly Curious - Edition #35

Your Personal Year-End Review 🔋, How to Get Lucky (without being rich) 🤞🏽, NYC's Best Coffee ☕, Interest Rates Falling? ⬇️ & More

Nick Wolf
December 14, 2023

Welcome to Constantly Curious, Edition #35!

This week at a glance:

Videos I’m Watching
Articles I’m Reading
Podcasts I’m Listening Too
Posts that Caught my Eye
Ideas that I’m Thinking About

If this is your first time reading - welcome! Let your curiosity run wild with us every Thursday at 12pm EST.

With that said, let’s get into it -

Videos I’m Watching…

_{Action Bronson (who, in my opinion, has taken the reigns from the late, great Anthony Bourdain as the next iteration of traveling food & experience lover) goes deep on Coffee. Hilarious, insightful and fun}

_{Fantastic documentary released 3 weeks ago outlining Joey Merlino’s rise to power in the 80s and 90s. If Part 2 piques your interest, start with Part 1.}

_{Nick Bare (founder of Bare Performance Nutrition) is one of my favorite people to follow. In this vlog, he recaps his most recent marathon. He set a personal best of 2:39:20 (6:06 per mile)}

Articles I’m Reading…

PRO TIPS: For any articles that are paywall’d, refer to CC #11 or CC #19 for a way to bypass. OR, utilize your iPhone’s “Reader View” in your browser (this works occasionally)

🎥 TikTok Car Confessionals are the New YouTube Bedroom Vlogs (TechCrunch)

👟 Exclusive: What the Ever-Confident Kith CEO Ronnie Fieg Wants to Conquer Next (Footwear News)

🔋 The Personal Year-End Annual Review (Sahil Bloom)

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Podcasts I’m Listening Too…

_{Awesome podcast featuring Tiffany Wong, a cryptocurrency reporter who broke several big stories regarding SBF during and after the downfall of FTX}

_{Bill Simmons and The Ringer crew talk about Rounders, one of my all time favorite movies and the definition of a true “rewatchable”. Underground Poker, Matt Damon, Ed Norton - it doesn’t get better than Rounders}

Is Ohtani’s Deal a Problem for MLB?

Shohei Ohtani’s deal rocked the baseball world, first with its incredible $700 million worth, then with the news that all but $20 million will be deferred until after the contract expires. Former Miami Marlins president David Samson argues that the deal is a problem for MLB and will cause in-fighting between team owners.

Posts that Caught My Eye…

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate just fell below 7% for the first time in months.
Buyers and sellers are both cheering.
@NewsLambert breaks down the impact today for ResiClub.
READ: resiclubanalytics.com/p/mortgage-rat…
— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano)
1:56 AM • Dec 14, 2023

I think about this twice a day.
Every morning when I sit down to read & then when I sit down to write, I say to myself,
"Accept the initial agitation."
When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, "the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system."
Meaning:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer)
9:34 PM • Dec 12, 2023

How to get lucky (without being rich):
Thought experiment: If you had to double your luck in 6 months, what would you do?
10 ideas:
1. Luck Razor - If given 2 options, pick the one that has the most luck potential. E.g. Cocktail party vs watching Netflix. Which one has the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— George Mack (@george__mack)
3:05 PM • Dec 10, 2023

How to cook a big steak better than your favorite steakhouse:
Start by generously salting the steak on all sides.
This can be done anywhere from 1-48 hours in advance (what we call a dry brine).
Bake in the oven at 250 degrees. This is going to take awhile if your steak is big… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Cooking with Chris (@coookwithchris)
3:38 PM • Dec 11, 2023

Ideas that I’m Thinking About…

_{Work doesn't just happen when you're trying to. There's a kind of undirected thinking you do when walking or taking a shower or lying in bed that can be very powerful. By letting your mind wander a little, you'll often solve problems you were unable to solve by frontal attack.}

_{You have to be working hard in the normal way to benefit from this phenomenon, though. You can't just walk around daydreaming. The daydreaming has to be interleaved with deliberate work that feeds it questions.}

_{Everyone knows to avoid distractions at work, but it's also important to avoid them in the other half of the cycle. When you let your mind wander, it wanders to whatever you care about most at that moment. So avoid the kind of distraction that pushes your work out of the top spot, or you'll waste this valuable type of thinking on the distraction instead. (Exception: Don't avoid love.)}

Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)

See you next week!

Stay Curious, Friends!

-Nick

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