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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:

An interesting excerpt from a book I am currently reading, The Five Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom:

In 1666, when the bubonic plague was devastating London and its surrounding cities, forcing universities to shut their doors and send students home, a twenty-three-year-old at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge fled to his small village fifty miles away. Just as in the early months of our COVID-19 pandemic, young students were forced by unfortunate circumstances to pause their lives and enter a state of lockdown. 

But rather than wallow away while in isolation, this particular bright young man ran with the forced constraint and spent the year in a perpetual state of creative and intellectual flow. Despite the absence of formal educational requirements, he immersed himself in his books, studies, and experiments, pursuing his curiosities with intense focus and fervor. 

During the single year of his confinement, the young student made groundbreaking discoveries in fields across science and mathematics, among them: 

• Developing the initial principles of calculus 

• Formulating the law of universal gravitation 

• Defining the three fundamental laws of motion 

• Laying the foundation for the understanding of the behavior of light 

• Designing a reflecting telescope

The young student was Isaac Newton, and 1666 became known as his annus mirabilis (Latin for "miracle year"), a nod to the breadth and depth of his output over such a short period.

In a single year, he had produced the output of several incredible lifetimes.

3 reads:

1 - Matthew Mcconaghy has lived a wild life. Thank you to Senor Sadler for the lend, recommend this read.

2 - AI once again being insane.

3 - “George Edward “Rube” Waddell was baseball’s most kaleidoscopic character. In 1903 he began the year sleeping in a firehouse at Camden, New Jersey, and ended it tending bar in Wheeling, West Virginia. “In between those events,” wrote Lee Allen, “he won twenty-two games for the Philadelphia Athletics, played left end for the Business Men’s Rugby Football Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt, courted, married, and separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts, saved a woman from drowning, accidentally shot a friend through the hand, and was bitten by a lion”.

2 rabbit holes:

1 - Interesting startup on the rise - Daps Bounty - allowing athletes to monetize themselves even more.

2 - Cool Tools.

1 watch:

1 - @maxefrt on Instagram.

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1 listen:

1 - Jen Payne & Sonickraft - Fired Up (Sammy Virji X Marzetti Edit).

Cheers,