What I’m reading

• Reading more of Rand’s leadership blog, Become the Consequence was really good. Need to practice more of this! Picked up his “Art of Leadership” book, mostly a collection of essays from the blog but it seems like a good highlight reel.
• The Hatred of Podcasting was pretty good.
  • “Of course, most aren’t actively listening to Fridman and Huberman for two hours at a time. The episodes are a layer of white noise, a way to blot out thoughts. Podcasts came of age amid the growing absence of meaningful contact in the average person’s day, in a time when silence is hated.”

What I’m playing

• More Ark Nova! Want to break out Terraforming Mars again to compare how they feel.

What I’m watching

A long flight top India was good movie time.

• Napoleon (2023) was… just ok. Not a fan of using Josephine as the sole lens to view the man, it felt pretty reductive.
• Tenet was incredible!? I don’t know how I didn’t see this until now. Need to watch again.

Also watched Poor Things which was, uh, quite something. Interesting film about women’s liberation, I think there’s an essay to be written comparing to Barbie?

What I’m up to

I traveled to India for work last week. Great to visit and meet people in person for the first time, cool to visit a country (and continent!) that I’d never been to before. Highlights: The food, Mughal forts in Jaipur, and the food.