You bookmarked one Medium article last week that you absolutely had to read. You’re committed to learning about historical post-pandemic cultural renaissances. The week goes by in a flash, but you finally build the willpower to sit down to read on Sunday night, exhausted from having just put the kids to bed.
The top of the article prepares you: Reading Time, 22 minutes.
1 hour, 3 Twitter breaks, 4 WhatsApp messages, and 7 Clubhouse notifications later - you finish the post. You click the little x on that tiny Chrome tab with great pride and a sigh of relief.
Wait, what did I just read?
5 new Chrome tabs stare you in the face - all those hyperlinks you clicked while diligently highlighting aren’t going to read themselves.
Your will power broken, you bookmark these posts with your Pocket browser extension. You leave the tabs open, so you can get to them tomorrow, secretly praying that your computer performs an automatic software update wiping the slate of open tabs clean again.
You head to bed and turn on Netflix to “shut your brain off.”
This Week’s Podcast:
Psychedelic Consciousness with Daniel Grauer, Author of Psychedelic Consciousness: Plant Intelligence for Healing Ourselves & Our Fragmented World
“No research has yet proven that consciousness originates in the brain”
In this episode, I sat down with my friend Daniel Grauer to discuss his new book Psychedelic Consciousness. He first highlights his personal journey with psychedelic healing. We then explore the physiological impact that psychedelics have on our brain and bodies, and why that may be less important than the idea that consciousness itself originates in our brains. Daniel explains the evolution of philosophy from unity towards self-centeredness and the history of psychedelics. Finally, he explains Gaia Theory, which holds that the re-emergence of psychedelics is a systemic reaction created by Earth to balance the human-driven destruction of our planet and climate change.
What I’m Reading
Ideas
The Future of Cannabinoid Medicine, Ben Chiarelli, Founder of Cellibre
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
A Libertarian Case for Monarchy, Leland B. Yeager
Startups
The Business of Fame: 1920 - 2020, Rex Woodbury
Ryan Caldbeck (CEO @ CircleUp) Email to a Former Board Member (aka what not to do as a VC)
Markets
Convexity Maven: War and Peace, Harley Bassman
Crypto
Audius launches $AUDIO, The Audius Platform Token
Bitcoin Investment Thesis, Fidelity Digital Assets
COVID-19
What SAGE has Got Wrong, Lockdown Sceptics
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