Best uses of my time this week

Roughly in order...

Planning for how to get better at the skills I want to be top 25% in.

Reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink.

Pondering the best questions to ask in order to get the most out of a conversation. (Will share thoughts later, maybe.)

Lunch with my friend Pavs talking about side projects.

Learning about interest/curiosity.

Strolling around downtown Asheville with the lady.

Reading Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety.

Radiolab podcast on stress.

Radiolab emergence podcast, particularly the last section about neurons and consciousness beginning around 44:00.

Scott Adams hypothesizes that we're all "energy junkies".

Reading Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed.

Pondering the best way to choose which skills to focus on.

Radiolab podcast on morality. (Yes, I've been catching up on old Radiolabs -- I only recently discovered the show's brilliance.)

Garrison Keillor 1985 interview from Wired for Books. (The 1983 one was decent.)

Will Wilkinson and David Shenk Bloggingheads.

The cultural exposure of Rosetta's Kitchen "farm fresh vegan soul food" in downtown Asheville.

Radiolab podcast on numbers.

The idea that noise (or perhaps other sensory assaults) can be exhausting.

Miller McCune article on self-control.

Guy Kawasaki Q & A, particularly the last one.

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