August 2018

My monthly newsletter covers the books I have read over the course of the month, the challenges I undertook as well as some other interesting articles, blog posts, interviews, tools, hacks, etc.   

Books

• Human Universals by Donald Brown
• The Early Days of WL Gore by Bob Gore
• The HeartMath Solution by Doc Lew Childre, Howard Martin, Donna Beech
• Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell
• Men and Rubber by Harvey Firestone, Samuel Crowther

Full list of books read in 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

Any book, which is at all important, should be immediately re-read

Teacher's Reference Guides

• Jordan Peterson Biblical Series - really enjoying these and have a couple left - will probably re-watch once I finish because there is so much depth to them...

Monthly Challenges

• HeartMath HRV - doing just 5-10 minutes in the morning and at night in order to get into coherence and measure my heart rate variability (HRV). Definitely not a replacement for meditation but it is a great, quick way to get many of the physical benefits associated with coherence and meditation
• Avoid lectin heavy foods (tomatoes, potatoes, legumes, beans, more) - wanted to try this after digging into Dr. Gundry's Plant Paradox. I personally didn't feel a huge difference and probably won't keep up but I definitely didn't feel worse and I know a lot of people who have felt huge differences on this protocol.

Other

• The Glut of Information
• Dutch Flood Control - a lot of lessons around risk, cost/benefit, decision making, Kantian fairness, etc.
• Music in Human Evolution by Kevin Simler
• Honesty and the Human Body by Kevin Simler
• Willie Mays AIkens Letter to His Younger Self
• Driven by Compression Progress - one of the more fascinating papers I've read in a while!

Hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

Amor Fati

Blas

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung