🌿🛩️ Air Travel: Is Seaweed the Future of Flying?
Airlines are under more pressure than ever to figure out how to make their operations sustainable—and rightly so. Electronic and solar-powered planes may be impressive innovations, but now an alternative and rather unexpected fuel solution is gaining ground: giant sea kelp. (via BBC)
🏝️🏆 Revisiting Tim Ferriss’s “The 4-Hour Workweek”
Cal Newport writes an ode to his pal Tim Ferriss. I hoped for the story of Ferriss’s role in shaping an internet culture obsessed with productivity and optimisation. Instead, Newport credits him with promoting healthier attitudes towards work—even though Ferriss himself has never worked as few as four hours a week... (via New Yorker)
🏢📹 The Worst of Both Worlds: Zooming From the Office
The transition to hybrid work is well and truly underway. In fact, some companies haven’t properly started yet, as bosses cling to the idea that everyone will soon return to the office. This piece takes stock of the current situation in the US, weaving together research, expert insights, and company case studies. (via NY Times)
🎙️🔮 No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
The future of work is everybody working fewer hours, with more autonomy, less hierarchy, no management structures, and no time wasted with office politics and pointless interactions. Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia is a trailblazer on all this. This podcast deep-dives into how and why he and his team already operate in this way. (via Spotify)
🎬🎙️ The Secrets of Public Speaking
This explainer video provides nine simple, actionable tips to help you become more confident and improve your technique as a speaker. From one of the world’s most successful and celebrated YouTubers. (via Ali Abdaal)
🦄📝 The Right Kind of Original
Original thinking is a difficult act, and writing is one of the best ways to trick your brain into doing it. This short essay unpicks the idea of originality and argues we need to overcome the fear of remixing and presenting other people’s ideas in new ways—an unhelpful fear that traditional academia instils in us. (via David Perell)
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