John MacGaffey

What to Read 🧘‍♀️ Mastering the Mind and Body: Conscious Control of the Autonomic Nervous System — Future Minds Lab Eugene Kwok shares some extraordinary ways people can learn to control their autonomic nervous system, which regulates everything from our respiration to reflexes: One particular study showed [that Wim Hof's]

What I'm Reading 🧼 The Surprising Afterlife of Used Hotel Soap — The Hustle In Guerrilla Public Service, I wrote, "[T]he way our world is designed isn't inevitable or immutable. It's shaped by the people with the motivation and ambition to change it."

🔨 Big Skills — Collaborative Fund Morgan Housel argues that combining ordinary skills in unique ways can lead to spectacular results because they compound: It’s tempting to want to find the one big skill that will set you apart. But most incredible things come from compounding, and compounding isn’t intuitive

🔨 Big Skills — Collaborative Fund Morgan Housel argues that combining ordinary skills in unique ways can lead to spectacular results because they compound: It’s tempting to want to find the one big skill that will set you apart. But most incredible things come from compounding, and compounding isn’t intuitive

🧮 The Polymath Playbook — Salman Salman has some essential reading for anyone who follows this blog. He touches on the concept of ikigai, which I also recently wrote about, and explores the benefits of exploring multiple disciplines — an ongoing topic of mine. You’ve likely heard the saying: “A jack of

🧠 She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter. — Wired Our brains are incredibly plastic, even well into adulthood, and we've only just started to learn how they work. Case in point: A woman missing her left temporal lobe experiences no symptoms and discovered it