Happy Sunday! Welcome to the 21st edition of my weekly newsletter. Here are some of the articles and resources that caught my attention this week.
Reading
1. How to Remember Everything You Read
Mortimer Adler’s advice hit me—mark your books like a conversation, not decorate them. Studies show annotating helps you retain up to seven times more. I really need to practice this approach.
2. Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
“Today, CEO compensation is tied to quarterly earnings, not long-term reinvention. Most boards are packed with risk-averse fiduciaries, not builders or technologists. They reward share buybacks, not AI moonshots.” - So True.
“But arguably, spending more time on a lost cause—after you realize it’s probably lost—is the bigger failure. Sometimes, giving up on something is the most successful decision you can make.”
4. Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career
What mattered most wasn’t titles or money—it was doing meaningful work with good people. A reminder that purpose, not hustle, sustains you in the long run.
“Work is one of the last remaining places where we are motivated to learn from people we don’t agree with and find common pursuit with people we are ideologically opposed to. I think that’s meaningful. I think it’s worth doing.”
“Shooting for the stars and falling short, innovating, building on the frontier of what’s possible, trying but failing, doing exciting things that exceed your hopes and dreams with a team just as ambitious and driven as you are, while also holding your ideals to heart — that’s fucking exciting. That’s what brings your ideals to life.”
5. Birth of the Wisdom Economy
I always believed wisdom was important—even before the AI boom. But now, it feels more obvious than ever.
“AI is automating knowledge work at scale. Coders, consultants, analysts, roles built on cognitive horsepower, are being outpaced by machines that don’t sleep, forget, or hesitate. Let’s be blunt, we’ve built a multi trillion dollar global economy on propositional knowledge. AI is eating that for lunch. What remains scarce, and therefore valuable, isn’t more information. It’s wisdom. Not as some mystical abstraction, but as a practical capacity: the integration of multiple ways of knowing, propositional, embodied, relational, and intuitive, into right action. Not just how to think. How to be. How to relate. How to act from alignment in a world of infinite complexity.”
Few more :
Using AI to make lower-carbon, faster-curing concrete
Watching
I was struck by how a few “keystone” species—like wolves or sea otters—hold entire ecosystems together, and how their loss can unravel whole environments. Seeing pioneering ecologists from the Serengeti to the Arctic reveal universal rules felt like watching nature’s blueprint get decoded. It’s a hopeful story: once you understand these rules, you can actually restore damaged ecosystems.
Note: You might need a VPN set to the USA to access the full episode as I did.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/serengeti-rules-dhbtnm/19906/
Tools
Focusmate – Struggle with distractions? Focusmate pairs you with a real person for live, timed virtual coworking sessions. Just show up, set a goal, and work silently side-by-side. Surprisingly effective for deep work and building consistency.
“You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.”
-John W. Gardner