📡 Non-binarism

Pulse #157 — in need of new categories.

Hey fam!

This is unbelievable, isn’t it? It’s almost 2022!

2021 was a crazy year. I mean, I know 2020 set the bar for craziness really high, but I bet you agree that 2021 wasn’t that normal either thanks to Covid and crypto — and NFTs and Web3!

This is the last Pulse of the year and as usual, I’m keeping it short and sweet! I really hope I can write about more intersections in 2022…

Thank you for spending another great year with Pulse! See you on the other side.

— Behrouz

something to listen to while reading → Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms.

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In Today’s Issue

• This Week in the News

• Article: The third way

• Podcast: Ever felt like a fraud?

• Tweet: Hard work

• Tool: PostSheet

• And a gift for you.

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This Week in the News

• Disney fails to reach a deal with YouTube TV, removing 17+ channels including ABC, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, and FX; YouTube TV drops its price from $64.99 to $49.99/month [link]

  so who’s the king? content or distribution?!

• Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those involved in the provision or facilitation of illegal streams, for up to 20 years [link]

• Surveillance-for-hire, ban on surveillance, and Windows Control Panel [link]

• Reddit’s going public, Apple’s COVID19 measures, and Adidas NFTs [link]

• Govs exploiting Log4j, vax for Googlers, and Instagram hits 2 Billion MAUs [link]

• Some pesky bug, Nike in metaverse, and Huawei’s extent of tracking in China [link]

• Security bugs, Meta’s centralised power, and Intel’s $7B expansion [link]

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One Article

The Third Way

Credit: Fahrul Azmi on Unsplash

This one’s a short piece from Kevin Kelly talking about how we need a non-binary or non-traditional perspective looking at new emerging things…

The same way that Howard Shultz positioned Starbucks as the third place between home/office & public spaces — not a private space, but not a public space; somewhere you can hang out with your friends and have meetings, but you don’t own…

Dealing with a lot of things today needs this approach and way of thinking:

• Facebook and Amazon: just a corporation to regulate? Not really… A government? Not merely. A third thing — a platform.

• Uber drivers: employees or not employees? Well, neither…

AirBnb? Crypto? AI? These are all things that don’t fit the current categories… and there will be more of these… We need to keep an open mind and try to figure it out…

read more on TheTechnium.

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One Podcast

The Psychology of Self-Doubt

Experiencing “imposter syndrome” or feeling like a fraud is something most of us go through in life.

In this episode of Hidden Brain, Shankar and Psychologist Kevin Cokley go through different instances of self-doubt and discuss how we inflict that feeling on ourselves — and how some people need a bit more of it!

listen to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts.

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One Tweet

Hard Work

James Clear @JamesClear

We need to redefine "hard work" to include "hard thinking." The person who outsmarts you is out working you. The person who finds shortcuts is out working you. The person with a better strategy is out working you. Usually, the hardest work is thinking of a better way to do it.

but because it’s intangible to some people, they discount it as it is not real…

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One Tool

PostSheet

No-code email & SMS service

Basically, you can send personalised emails & text messages using Google Sheets or Airtable — and it’s super simple.

try PostSheet.

made by my friend, @soheilpro.

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🐱 One gift for you.

how many did you get right?

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And that’s all for now. Stay curious. Try new things!