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Kyle Scheuerle
January 11, 2024

Welcome!

Welcome to thirty-two eleven (”3211”). This newsletter will entail: 3 Reads, 2 Rabbit Holes, 1 Watch, and 1 Listen — 3/2/1/1. Detailing what I have been up to, on the internet.

introduction:

Happy New Year. A good clip I enjoyed in the “watch” this week, is at 46:10, where Andrew Huberman details his findings on the brain structure called the anterior mid cingulate cortex. A lot of data on humans recently has shown that when people do something they do not want to do such as adding exercise, resisting eating something, etc. this brain area gets bigger. It is smaller in obese people, it gets bigger when they diet and is larger in athletes.

In people that live a very long time, this area keeps its size. Many scientists are considering this not only as the brain structure of willpower but as the will to live.

The goal for 2024: Grow my anterior mid cingulate cortex.

3 reads:

1 - A new way of preventing phone use. Yondr seems to be the main company tackling the problem of excessive phone use at concerts, schools, etc. Lane8 recently used Yondr pouches on his “This Never Happened” tour, where phones could not be used to record the show. I am a fan.

Schools in 41 states have spent millions on pouches to lock up kids' phones

Yondr has found a booming business in contracts with American schools.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/yondr-phone-pouch-lock-school-rcna128247?utm_source=pocket_saves&utm_medium=email

2 - Fully automated, solar-powered, floating kelp farms to spur local economies and regenerate marine ecosystems while sequestering carbon.

Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

Researchers are scaling up solar-powered kelp farms

spectrum.ieee.org/kelp-farm-carbon

3 - Of the roughly $1.2 billion a year spent on endangered and threatened species, about half goes toward the recovery of just two types of fish: salmon and steelhead trout along the West Coast.

Most money for endangered species goes to a small number of creatures, leaving others in limbo

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction.

apnews.com/article/endangered-species-spending-extinctions-plants-1ad806de0db9d09a38b7e82f6286c1b5?utm_source=pocket_saves

2 rabbit holes:

1 - Co-founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, detailing what he carries in his bag.

What’s in My Bag, 2023

16” M3 Max MacBook Pro, with all the memory and storage. I went from carrying two laptops earlier in the year, a 14” as well to just this. I like the Space Black color because it’s novel but might…

ma.tt/2023/12/the-bag-post/?utm_source=pocket_saves