1. What I'm curious about -

• What is one thing you believe to be true that you'd never say on social media? You can just hit 'reply' to this email and I will post all responses in my instagram story this weekend without identifying who it is from (and of course I will keep it a secret). 

• I tried doing a half vacation, half work week. It didn't work. Or, more precisely, I didn't work. I think the key to making this combo successful is to schedule in the deep work or only plan on doing 'shallow work.' 

• While combining vacation and work failed, jointly reading these 2 books magnified their impact. Add in this third one, and it'll be hard not to live out your unique purpose.

• Tim Ferriss, an author and person I greatly admire, said Trip of Compassion is the most compelling documentary he's seen in the last year. It's about healing trauma with the help of a drug called MDMA. Here's how a patient describes this treatment: "I felt like I went through 15 years of psychological therapy in one night." 

• On Thursday I checked instagram and something was off - I didn't have any messages to respond to. I check facebook. Same thing. I thought my wifi must be broken. But I had full connectivity. Maybe it was my phone? I turned it off, then back on. But still nothing. I checked Twitter to discover (in addition to having DMs) that facebook and its associated apps were down. With facebook "turned off," a weird thing happened, I noticed that I could "turn off." With the outage I couldn't respond to questions. I couldn't post. I couldn't "miss out" on anything. While I think social media can do a lot of good by connecting people and opening lines of communication to share thoughts and ideas, it can also keep us "always on," always feeling the need to respond, to "check in," to update. I'm going to be working on "turning off" more often, even if facebook is on.

7. What trailer caught my eye -

• Lionsgate released the trailer of "Crypto" this week and I had to add it to my watchlist. It's about a benevolent Wall Street genius that uncovers a crypto laundering scheme. It's obviously a Hollywood-ized view of crypto. But for those who follow the market, it looks like an entertaining flick.

It's a pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you,

hope you have a great weekend!

Kevin

P.S.

My goal was to get you the next section in the Brain Food Series today - but due to #2 above - I failed. I'm really sorry about the delay. And I will have that for you next week, right here in the Saturday 7.