Systems, Innovation and Envy | Feeding Frenzy #33
Feeding Frenzy is a weekly post that is a collection of knowledge to absorb. Every week you can expect something worth listening, reading, watching, and pondering. Think of this as a boost of the signal above the noise!
A sneak peek into this edition, we have a podcast with Brad Feld. An article from Time on Sleep and Alzheimer's, an article posing a question on the stagnation of innovation. Last but not least, we have a quote from Therapist Lori Gottlieb and more!
Worth Listening
Brad Feld — The Art of Unplugging, Carving Your Own Path, and Riding the Entrepreneurial Rollercoaster (#448) | Tim Ferriss
Brad Feld has many unique perspectives, and this conversation starts in an unlikely place with the reason for off-grid vacations. Brad shares his varied experiences gets quite deep into how therapy has helped. Outside of the depth of knowledge, he shares many other ways to view the world. One of my favorites is that most systems are complex adaptive systems.
Worth Reading
'A Rinsing of the Brain.' New Research Shows How Sleep Could Ward Off Alzheimer's Disease | TIME
"That showed experimentally for the first time that there was an effect of sleep deprivation on Alzheimer's disease pathology," says Spira. "That's what really flipped everything on its head." In 2013, to test whether the same effect occurred in people, Spira studied brain scans of 70 healthy adults with an average age of 76. Indeed, the scans of those who reported less or compromised sleep showed higher levels of amyloid plaques than the scans of those who slept better."
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find Because of the Burden of Knowledge? | Matt Clancy
"If breakthroughs in science and technology wipe the slate clean, rendering old knowledge obsolete, then it's possible the burden of knowledge could drop. In fact, Jung and Ejermo (2014) suggest this may be a reason why the age of first patent declined in the mid-1990s: digital innovation became relatively easy and did not depend on deep knowledge. It would be interesting to see if the three measures discussed above tend to reverse in fields undergoing paradigm shifts."
Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids | The Atlantic
"Students who care about others also tend to see their education as preparation for contributing to society—an outlook that inspires them to persist even when studying is dull. In adulthood, generous people earn higher incomes, better performance reviews, and more promotions than their less generous peers. This may be because the meaning they find in helping others leads to broader learning and deeper relationships, and ultimately to greater creativity and productivity."
Worth Watching
Not Impossible: Ending Hunger in America
Not Impossible Labs uses modern technology to solve the issue of food insecurity in America with an easy to use, text-message-based platform.
Worth Pondering
"Follow your envy—it shows you what you want."
― Lori Gottlieb from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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Today on the podcast, we are joined by Joe Jackowski. Joe is a Marine Corps veteran and current graduate student at Vanderbilt University in the Cognitive Psychology in Context program. His primary interest is meaning in life, which broadly extends to problems in ethics, A.I., and culture.
In this episode, we sit down to discuss his first long-form article on his new sub stack, Apotheosis: A Philosophy for Influencers