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The Paradox of Productivity
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Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive. Happy reading - See you on Wednesday! Cheers, Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits Revolutionizing Health Awareness Biologist and researcher, David A. Sinclair, on the future of health monitoring. "Indeed, we know more about the health of our cars than we know about our own health. That’s farcical. And it’s about to change." Source: Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To Computer science professor, Cal Newport, on the impact of social media. "You can’t, in other words, build a billion-dollar empire like Facebook if you’re wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook." Source: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Artist and writer, Jenny Odell, on the commodification of time. "In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living, and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, monitoring the ongoing development of our personal brand, time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on ‘nothing." Source: How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Productivity Tools and Resources Build an AI powered second brain 🧠 AI Notebook offers a seamless and intuitive experience for capturing and organizing your thoughts, ideas, and information. 💰 Unlocking Financial Wisdom: 31 Money Lessons From not being taught about money in school to navigating personal finance as an adult, explore 31 hard-earned lessons that can transform your financial health from author, Ryan Holiday. What We're Reading Internationall News is the newsletter where you'll receive free daily and latest stock market news and investing updates. Brain Food Today I Learned: The human brain has enough memory to hold three million hours of television. (Source) Science: Efforts to tackle false information through fact-checking or media literacy initiatives increases the public's skepticism toward 'fake news'. However, they also breed distrust in genuine, fact-based news sources. (Source) CLASSIFIEDS Learn the strategies that built the world's greatest companies A brief email every week breaking down the playbooks and growth hacks behind successful software, internet, or media companies. Join 55,000+ readers from Google, Meta, Atlassian, Stripe, Netflix, Snapchat and more. (Everything in the section above is an ad, book yours here) Partner with The Smarter Brain and reach 8,000 professionals' inboxes. Contact us to learn more. If you enjoy The Smarter Brain, we would really appreciate you spreading the word by sharing the sign up link to a colleague or friend. Thank you! Collaborate with The Smarter Brain Do the Survey | Contact | Advertise |
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The Smarter Brain is a newsletter that helps you cut through the noise on the web and save valuable time, so you can can focus on getting things done. Delivered twice a week, you’ll get bite-sized ideas and recommended tools to build better habits, improve your productivity and get smarter in less than 3 minutes.
Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive. Happy reading - See you on Wednesday! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits The Hidden Cost of Consuming News Author and researcher, Michael Easter, on the mental health impact of media consumption. "And this affects us. Consider, immediately after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, researchers...
TOGETHER WITH Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive. Happy reading - See you on Wednesday! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits Redefining Productivity Artist and author, Jenny Odell, on the overlooked value of maintenance and care. "Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not...
Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive. Happy reading - See you on Sunday! Cheers, The Smarter Brain Team Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins 3 Ideas For Better Habits The Cost of Comfort Natural historian and broadcaster, David Attenborough, on the paradox of modern living. "We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by...