Never Fully Read #5

🗣 Quotes that make you think:

• “Pain + Reflection = Progress”

• “The most valuable habit I’ve acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will learn what causes your pain and what you can do about it, and it will have an enormous impact on your effectiveness.”

• “The happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it.”

  • Ray Dalio Principles

• “For the classics, philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me, a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• “In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” - Oscar Wilde

• “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "It's hard to wait around for something that may never happen, but it's harder to give up when you know it's everything you want" - Unknown

👨‍💻Tech news:

• Exo secures $200M toward commercializing ultrasound device

  • “Ultrasound machines can cost anywhere from $40,000 to $250,000 for low-end technology and into the millions for high-end machines. Meanwhile, Exo’s device will be around the cost of a laptop.”

• Contentful raises $175M at a $3B valuation from Tiger for its content delivery service

  • “ Contentful provides customers with a service that will deliver images, words, and other content to their applications and websites around the world, quickly.”

• Dataiku gets $400M at a $4.6B valuation, led by Tiger Global

  • “The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors like ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and Dawn Capital. It’s been used for a wide array of use cases, including fraud detection, customer churn prevention and supply chain optimization.The company now has about 450 enterprise clients, including Unilever, Merck, GE, Ubisoft and NXP.”

• Amazon unveils programs for unsold merchandise after blowback

  • “Amazon unveiled plans to cut waste after facing a backlash for reportedly destroying thousands of items in one of its UK warehouses. In a Wednesday blog post, the e-commerce giant said it has two programs that would help resell customer returns and overstock items to give them a second life. “

• GM is adding two new zero-emission commercial vehicles to its lineup

  • “General Motors said Wednesday it is adding two new zero-emissions vehicles to its commercial portfolio as it looks to expand its first-to-last-mile business arm, BrightDrop.

  • “The first vehicle will be a battery electric cargo van under the Chevrolet brand that will likely be similar to the popular Chevy Express van. The second will be a medium-duty truck that CEO Mary Barra said “will put both the Ultium and Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cell technology to work.”

📈 Trends:

• 📈Amazon ad sales jump 87% as companies emphasize new marketing, content offerings.

  • “The company said it introduced 40 new features and self-service capabilities to its Amazon Advertising portal over the period, and touted opportunities for brands on its streaming properties and platforms like Twitch.”

• 🚀 Google ad revenue soars 69% as new bets in commerce and video pays off.

  • “Google's advertising revenue soared 69% year-over-year to $50.4 billion in the second quarter, parent company Alphabet said in an earnings statement released Tuesday.”

• 👀 UK adults spent nearly a third of their waking hours watching TV and online video content in 2020, according to a report from regulator Ofcom.

  • “Daily average screen time, spurred on by pandemic lockdowns, was a daily average of five hours and 40 minutes, up 47 minutes on the previous year.”

• 👶 Male Fertility market on the rise:

  • “How to increase sperm count” — 74k/month

  • “Foods to increase male fertility” — 8.1k

  • “Sperm count increase tablets” — 5.4k

  • “Best male fertility supplements 2020” — 2.9k

🎤 Podcast recommendations:

• Everything you’ve been told about money is wrong Ramit Sethi on Impact Theory

  • “Simple and practical financial advice sounds familiar, but is rarely ever truly given. Maybe you have access to financial advisors you trust and maybe you don’t. Understanding for yourself that money, investing and living a rich life is much simpler than you could imagine is the most important thing for you to remember. “

• Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Sleep, Performance, and Anxiety

  • “Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind “

• Patricia Bright: How She Made Her Millions - The Diary Of A CEO

  • “Patricia Bright is one of the most innovate and inspiring influencers working today. Born and bred in South London, Patricia shares advice and stories on beauty, style, fashion and finance to her 2.8 million YouTube subscribers on her channel Patricia Bright, and her 1.2 million Instagram followers”

📚 Book I'm reading:

The Align Method: 5 Easy Steps to Transform Your Posture, Age-Proof Your Body, and Sharpen Your Mind

"The Align Method is a way to age-proof your body, using movement techniques inspired by yoga, martial arts, chiropractics, and more. Readers gain massive long-term health benefits, toned muscles, new ways to alleviate pain, a faster metabolism, reduced anxiety, better sexual performance, and increased energy.

This program centers on 5 daily optimizations that can easily be integrated into a workout, mindfulness practice, or just daily life”

1. Hip Hinging:

   1. “Your hips are the strongest joint complex in your whole body and most of us neglect them with compromised movement patterns in daily life. Every moment is an opportunity to cultivate your physical structure”

   2. Example exercise (Link)

2. Hanging:

   1. “I dive into the anatomy of your spine and how hanging helps to successfully bring it back into alignment, and what happens when you don’t. I also dive into the science-backed benefits of hanging. I explain not only how hanging improves your physical health, but how it also has a dramatic effect on your physiological health by bringing you a greater sense of confidence. Plus, I provide you with pointers on how to successfully incorporate hanging into your lifestyle.”

   2. Aron recommends spending a total of 90 seconds hanging each day

   3. Example exercise: (Link)

3. Floor sitting: Link to the align podcast on the benefits of floor sitting

4. Spine Stacking: Link to podcast on spine stacking

5. Nose Breathing: Link to the align podcast on nose breathing with

⏰ Timeless insight:

“Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions. We can’t stop our movement down this river and we can’t avoid those encounters. We can only approach them in the best possible way.”― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work