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Sunday Shares | 24MAY2020

This week I finally started flight school! Looking forward to getting going. It went zero-to-sixty in no time at all! 😅

I came across the idea of a “production vs. consumption ratio” this week. While I’m not entirely sure production should be larger than consumption, I think that tying consumption to production is a necessary framework so that action is affiliated with learning. So I want to try emphasizing production each week. It’s a new idea to me, so cut me some slack, but from now on, I want to focus on what I’ve made to share with you each week.

Production

Website

  • I finally made my website secure! It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. Note: This Sunday Shares is rolling out on Monday because the website was giving me grief…
  • My Book Notes page is up and running again after some issues. I’ve fixed the page and added a new book to it (mentioned below).

Consumption

Read

Article: Mission Specialist One by Melvin Leavitt

This article is about Don Lind, a Latter-day Saint astronaut, speaking about his experience. It’s sprinkled with spirituality, but his journey is truly incredible. For one, he was on the next Apollo mission to the moon before NASA canceled it. Man, can you even imagine? Wild.

Book: Inside the President’s Helicopter by LTC Gene T. Boyer and Jackie Boor

This is one of the most interesting books I’ve read lately. Back when the Army and the Marines shared the duty of flying for the President, pilot LTC Gene Boyer served under several administrations (LBJ, Nixon, and Ford). It was both a motivating book as a flight school student and a unique take on former presidents. Visit my Book Notes page for more details and quotes.

Watch

Video: How Easy Is It To Program a KAISU Welding Robot? (YouTube)

My buddy’s the handsome blonde speaking throughout the video 😘 Their company is rad! They specialize in robots, but they also whipped up a new ventilator unaffected by supply chain issues on short notice.

Video: SpaceX Returns Americans to the ISS on Wednesday!

Sure, we’ve had Americans traveling to and from the International Space Station regularly since the Space Shuttle retired, but the reason this is a big deal is that we’ve been buying seats on the Russian Soyuz rocket. An American company—SpaceX—is flying private astronauts to the ISS on Wednesday, and you should tune in! This is going to be truly amazing. Watch it live on Wednesday on SpaceX’s launch site (no pun intended) at 4:33 PM Eastern.

Listen

I’ve expanded a bit to broaden my taste in music. I’m looking to feature a new artist each week so that I go searching for new music each week rather than just waiting for my favorite artists to release new songs.

Song: “Power” by Ellie Goulding (Spotify | YouTube)

Every once in awhile, I’ll come across a song that I can listen to on repeat for seemingly forever. I’m then able to add it to my Mindless Study playlist, which is unique in that I normally can’t study to words with lyrics. After a while, though, certain songs fade into the background. This one’s now on that list, and I’ve been loving it!

Artist: I See Stars (Spotify | YouTube)

Per Thomas Frank’s (@TomFrankly) recommendation, I finally checked out I See Stars. They didn’t disappoint! I love electronic-y metal and rock (Breathe Carolina, for example), so this fits into my routine music selection nicely. Their album, Treehouse (Spotify), is what I’ve been enjoying.

Podcast: Superspreaders | Pandemic Economics (Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher)

This is one of the most insightful, data-driven discussions on how to open the economy I’ve heard. They utilize cell phone data and in-store observations to categorize both industries and specific businesses based on the likelihood of spreading the virus.

Tool

I came across Bookcision through an article by The Digital Reader. I was looking for a way to export my Kindle notes to archive in Evernote and post to the Book Notes page on my site. It highlights how terrible Amazon is at UI/UX.

This wasn’t initially an issue for me, but I recently listened to Maria Popova’s interview with Tim Ferriss where she laments:

Honestly, I feel that problem has not been solved at all in any kind of practical way. So, the way that I do it is basically a bunch of hacks using existing technologies. Perhaps, I’m just unaware, but I don’t think there’s anybody designing tools today for people who do serious heavy reading. There just isn’t anything that I know.

So, what I do is I highlight in the Kindle app in the iPad, and then
Amazon has this function that you can, basically, see your Kindle
notes and highlights on the desktop or on your computer. I go to
those. I copy them from that page, and I paste them into an
Evernote file to have all of my notes in a specific book in one
place.

Sometimes, I would also take a screen grab of a specific iPad
Kindle page with my highlighted passage, and then email that
screen grab into my Evernote email because Evernote has, as you
know, optical character recognition. So, when I search within it,
Copyright © 2007–2018 Tim Ferriss. All Rights Reserved.
it’s also gonna search the text in that image. I don’t have to wait
until I finish the book and explore all my notes.

Also, the formatting is kind of shitty on the Kindle notes on the
desktop where you can see all your notes. So, if you copy them,
they paste them to Evernote with this really weird formatting. So,
it tabulates each next notes indented to the right. So, it’s cascading,
the long cascading thing that shifts more and more to the right of
the page and move down.

Ponder

Idea: Will we move away from a salary tied to cost of living, now that so many companies are going remote?

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As I am slowly refining this newsletter, I’d love feedback on the format and content. Reach out in the comments or via Twitter (@JonnyMHenderson).