Dickie’s Digest - Learning, Leverage, and Stratechery
Hey there! Happy Sunday. Greetings from the East River where it is a crisp 72 degrees.
For two years now, I’ve been collecting links in Instapaper. If you’ve never heard of Instapaper, it’s an app that allows you to save articles, podcasts, and links to one central hub. This week, I wrote about my personal Instapaper system in this post — How To Use Instapaper To Accelerate Your Learning. If you find yourself losing track of things you wanted to read or are constantly distracted on the Internet, this article is for you! Once you’re set-up, you can start saving each link in the Digest with just one tap.
Have an epic week!
Dickie
How To Use Instapaper To Accelerate Your Learning — Attention is the world's scarcest commodity. Honing your attention is thus a modern-day superpower. To leverage the power of the Internet, you must be proactive, mindful, and deliberate with your attention. Instapaper helps you do just that.
In my latest article, I talk about how you can use Instapaper to better engage with digital content. I go through the paradigm shift that occurs when you start to use it, as well as walk you through setting it up on all of your devices. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can find a few other ideas I’ve been writing about at dickiebush.com/essays.
Invest Like the Best with Ben Thompson and Patrick O’Shaugnessy — Ben Thompson is the most insightful tech and media thinker of our time. His website, Stratechery, is a gold mine of concepts and unique perspectives on every major tech and media company including Spotify, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Walmart, and the New York Times. His concepts page alone is worth more than an entire MBA degree. In this podcast episode, Ben and Patrick discuss the future of tech disruption, Spotify vs. Apple, Shopify vs. Walmart vs. Amazon, Netflix vs. Disney, and my biggest takeaway, the concept of Platforms vs. Aggregators.
Current Favorite Work Playlist: Wren Radio — I am a big fan of looping the same few songs from the same few playlists while I work. When I find a specific song I really like, I’ll go to Spotify’s radio playlist for that song to find similar ones. This playlist, Wren Radio, is the most peaceful soundtrack to read or study to that I’ve found. Something about the slow, light piano just keeps me locked in.
"In short, “getting it together” requires slowing the mind. Quieting the mind means less thinking, calculating, judging, worrying, fearing, hoping, trying, regretting, controlling, jittering or distracting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor."
From The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey. Resurfaced with Readwise — if you aren’t using Readwise, you are missing out.
Never forget this legendary spelling bee performance
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