Wisereads Vol. 51 – 77 Lessons at 77 from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Janan Ganesh, and more
Last week, we shared a preview of Billy Broas and Tiago Forte's new release, Simple Marketing for Smart People. This week, we're sharing 77 Lessons at 77, an ebook by the legendary actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger shared in commemoration of his birthday.
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PS- This and the following Wisereads will be more streamlined than usual as our official editor (Abi) is off getting married today and then going on her honeymoon 🎉🥂
Most highlighted Articles of the week
Why I Finally Quit Spotify
"Issues with the listening technology create issues with the music itself; bombarded by generic suggestions and repeats of recent listening, listeners are being conditioned to rely on what Spotify feeds them rather than on what they seek out for themselves[...] Listeners become alienated from their own tastes; when you never encounter things you don’t like, it’s harder to know what you really do."
What and how to read
"[T]he question I most often field now concerns the books I read. Well, instead of a list, here is a rule: avoid the contemporary. If a novel has worth, it will still have it in a decade or two. If not, the filtering effect of time — which is imperfect in its judgment, but still the best thing we have — will remove the book from consideration by then"
Repair and Remain
"The promise is always the same: this thing will make you happy. Never mind trying to fix what you’ve got. Just get a new one and start over. Repair and remain sounds simple because it is. But simple is not the same as easy. “For better, for worse,” we say, and everyone likes to stay when it’s the better. But staying through the worse—that’s the whole point of the vow, for Christ's sake."
Most highlighted YouTube Video of the week
The Crazy Engineering of Venice
"When the first refugees arrived to start their new lives on the islands, they had the worst possible surface to build on. The small marshy islands were made of incredibly soft clay, which could barely hold the weight of a human, let alone an entire city. To create stable foundations for buildings, the Venetians collected large timber piles from the forests of Croatia and started hammering them into the ground [...] This design was a stroke of genius, as the wooden piles were sealed away from the air, making it impossible for them to rot. To this day, almost all of the original piles are in great condition and are still holding up the city."
Most highlighted Twitter Thread of the week
How to Deal with Passive Aggressive Attacks
"Passive-aggressive people want to speak their minds while avoiding conflict. So what can you do to expose their intentions? Simply reformulate their remarks with their "real" meaning [...] this helps you confront the person directly, and make them realize the impact of their behavior."
Most highlighted PDF of the week
External Technical Root Cause Analysis — Channel File 291
"With the release of sensor version 7.11 in February 2024, CrowdStrike introduced a new Template Type to enable visibility into and detection of novel attack techniques that abuse named pipes and other Windows interprocess communication (“IPC”) mechanisms [...] The new IPC Template Type defined 21 input parameter fields, but the integration code that invoked the Content Interpreter with Channel File 291’s Template Instances supplied only 20 input values to match against [...] Therefore, the attempt to access the 21st value produced an out-of-bounds memory read beyond the end of the input data array and resulted in a system crash."
Hand-picked book of the week
77 Lessons at 77
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who needs no introduction, recently celebrated his 77th birthday. To mark this milestone, he has launched a free e-book sharing 77 essential lessons that have influenced his journey. This concise book offers valuable insights, including:
"Reps, reps, reps. You might think you only do reps in the gym, but repetitions are the key to life. Whether you want to improve at speaking in public or reading books or just eating better, you will need to do reps. Whatever you work at, it becomes easier and less uncomfortable with every rep you do."
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"Looking back now, I think my big dreams came from the way I grew up. I couldn’t physically get out of the limited world I lived in. But, my mind could get out. My mind could travel to other parts of the world by watching documentaries about America and reading atlases and books about the rest of the world. I could read about my heroes and imagine myself in their shoes... My body was stuck, but my mind wasn’t. I think that’s why I never complained or got jealous. I made my own reality. My daydreaming created my big visions and my big goals, and, eventually, reality caught up."
Handpicked RSS feed of the week
Arnold's Pump Club
Every weekday, Arnold's Pump Club delivers a 5-minute newsletter that analyzes the headlines, simplifies the latest research, and offers quick tips to improve your health. From Toxic Mold... Or Toxic Myth?: "if sleep falters (such as it tends to happen when you have a newborn or are dealing with stressful times), exercise can help protect your overall health. The study looked at more than 90,000 sleep-deprived adults who were sleeping less than 6 hours per night. Those who didn’t exercise had a 69 percent elevated risk of cardiovascular death. But those who exercised saw their cardiovascular risk completely disappear, despite not getting enough rest."