FVS 9: 200 books a year, engineered ethical humans, legalizing cannabis

“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished” ― Lao Tzu

“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished” ― Lao Tzu

Hi, this is another edition of “For Value Sake”. A weekly post, it contains a few articles, a book recommendation and a TED talk. These are the most impressionable resources I consumed during the week, and share them so you can reap some value as I did. The only goal is to add value. Open the articles using your browser’s incognito/private mode. Cheers :)

THE SIMPLE TRUTH BEHIND READING 200 BOOKS A YEAR

“Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will…”

Knowledge getting is awesome! I love it. I recently embraced the concept of compounding knowledge by setting a goal this year to read 104 books, that’s 2 books a week. I haven’t quite met this goal. I’m at 34 books this year, which is higher than the whole of last year and I still have months to go. The goal is not the goal. The goal is the process, the habit. Charles shares his learnings from reading 200 books in a year.

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THE CASE FOR GENETICALLY ENGINEERING ETHICAL HUMANS

“There’s this growing mismatch between our cognitive and technological powers and our moral capacity to use them”

We live in an interesting generation. Science turned to technology is disrupting a lot of things. We are inventing technology faster than we are creating the ethical boundaries for the brave new world where these technologies operate. We are increasingly becoming less ethical as we abandon the ideologies that have maintained ethics for the past millennia through organized religion. How about we genetically engineer humans to be more ethical?

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LOVE, ITS NOT WHAT YOU THINK; A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION

“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”

I love to learn how stuff works, decoupling the fundamentals of human relationships has been one of those core things I progressively work on. Here’s yet another read on the science of love. Choose the love type you deploy carefully.ᵜ ᵜ ᵜ ᵜ ᵜ

TED TALK: SURPRISING TRUTHS ABOUT LEGALIZING CANNABIS

I’m sure most of us all know about the legalization of cannabis “weed” “Mj” in the US. The argument was “If we legalize it then we reduce the amount of crime around it”. Well, it was legalized and commercialized but things have gotten far from better for the minority groups, arrest for “Mj” related incidents have risen 58% for black Americans. Good watch!

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BOOK: GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN BY ROGER FISHER

In our everyday life, we have to negotiate, In our personal life, it’s either with our partner, our boss, our kids. In business, it’s with partners, clients, competition etc. We go through life negotiating. It’s a core skill anyone should have. This book lays the foundation for understanding the art of negotiation. Good read.

If you want the book, holla and I’ll send you an e-copy.

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