The Daily Loop #26

Twenty-sixth edition of The Daily Loop. 3 long-form reads, 3 short-term tweets, 1 quote and some daily advice! Have a read.

The Daily Loop newsletter focuses on information that can be consumed in 2 minutes every day by linking to posts across the internet, formatted in a way that is easy for anyone to navigate. In a 3-3-1-1 design.

The goal is for as many people to read this daily and inspire them to think differently about certain things. It will primarily be around topics and industries I am interested in such as: startups, ai, success, innovation, change, crypto, nfts, etc.

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3 long-form reads

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Ali Abdaal @AliAbdaal

This piece of advice makes me x3 more productive 🚀

At the start of your day, ask yourself what is the most important thing you need to be done today—then write it down on your calendar.

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Balaji @balajis

Btw, this wasn't in the clip, but the original concept of the prime number maze is from Noam Chomsky. He poses it as a constraint, but it's also possible to understand it as a challenge. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/noam-chomsky-a…

@goth600 🧠🔌 @goth600

I think about this almost every day https://t.co/gY1gUHYegP

The Balajis podcast with Lex was great—and very long. This was a good clip from that talking about how humans run into the same problem as the rat prime number maze.

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Edgy - The DeFi Edge 🗡️ @thedefiedge

John Maynard Keyes, the father of Macroeconomics, was a terrible Stock market investor. His fortunes changed once he started studying beauty contests. You can use what he learned to improve your Crypto trading. Here’s the 2-minute story:

The Beauty Contest was a newspaper game in the early 1900s. Readers selected who they believed were the 6 prettiest faces. The reader whose choices most closely matched the 6 most selected women would win a prize.

Edge goes through the various strategies people used to win in the thread, check it out.

3 short-form tweets

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NFTNick.eth @allnick

GM I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Stop trying to please everyone!

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Austen Allred @Austen

“Nine women can’t work together to have a baby in one month”

If it can’t be done, no matter what, stop trying to do it. The Dead Horse Theory—will speak about this soon on Twitter.

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Loopify 🧙‍♂️ @Loopifyyy

I’m a strong believer that the “Metaverse” (all virtual experiences/world) will be in AR. This is an example of VR but closer to what I imagine we can have in 5-10 years through simple glasses.

Wanted to bring up one of my favourite videos in VR. This was created a while ago, but I wouldn’t doubt in the next year or so it will be very easy to do this yourself.

1 good quote

“Longer tables not higher walls.”

Forgot where I saw this quote first. But a good way to say we should be welcoming people, not restricting them.

1 piece of advice from me

Adapt with the times. Be open to change. There is minimal downside to testing out new things.

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