Medley 74: Article MVPs, Snapchat Reality, Sleep for Your Brain, & Good Commas

This is a copy of this week’s email that I sent to my newsletter, which you can join here . Happy Monday! I hope your last week was great. : “ .” A friend asked me a couple weeks ago what the benefit was to having a blog with such diverse topics, and this is the biggest one. Creating a platform to test business ideas fast, free, and without needing a team. New Article The Article MVP: How to Test Business Ideas Fast, Free, and Solo : I published my interview with the always fun always awesome Zen Dudes of , where we talked about fitness, entrepreneurship, getting YouTube famous, and the subtle art of looking good naked. On Made You Think, Neil and I published our episode on by Bertrand Russell about why you shouldn’t work so much and how to mediate between pursuing your goals and taking advantage of the leisure that modern affords us. New Episodes Zen Dude Fitness In Praise of Idleness technology : I added my notes on (8/10), and (8/10). New Lessons Enchiridion by Epictetus The Way of Zen by Alan Watts : I went on the to talk about new skills through experimentation, it was a fun interview! Features Life Skills that Matter podcast learning I took Tiago Forte’s “ ” course last week. It’s phenomenal. The recordings are a little outdated since the tools have been updated, but it’s by far the best $50 you could spend on improving your productivity processes. Not an affiliate link, I just really loved it. Getting Stuff Done with their new Snapchat Art. It’s not very exciting yet, and I still hate the platform, but if they advance it to the point of truly having a Second Life type digital layer over your normal reality that you can see through their Spectacles… that’d be pretty cool. Snapchat is getting into AR that one of the core functions of sleep is to “clean out the trash” that builds up in your brain during the day and help it shrink back down to a “cleaner” size. This would suggest that chronic sleep deprivation can lead to brain damage by not allowing this clean out process, so get your 8 hours! This research indicates Benedict Evans wrote a long post on the . I’d highly recommend taking the time to read it — it’s fascinating. second-order consequences of self-driving cars I also came across that established a reciprocal relationship between depression and obesity. Essentially, being obese can make you depressed, and being depressed can make you obese. Not a good cycle. this research Finally, don’t forget your . oxford commas folks Have a great week!Nat