Hi Y’all,
I am starting something new, that I hope you will enjoy, learn from and share.
I spend an inordinate amount of time roaming the web, traversing newsletters, absorbing podcasts and thought it was high-time to share some of the love back with friends and family.
The email will come out every other week. Why every other week? Because it hits the sweet spot between the fast pace of weekly and the print like magazine slowness of monthly.
Creating a Spotify playlist of the most popular songs from each year. Surprisingly I couldn’t find a playlist that had just one song per year. My playlist goes from 1960 to the present day. Here are a few interesting takeaways:
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The years highlighted by the reminiscence bump coincide with “the emergence of a stable and enduring self.” The period between 12 and 22, in other words, is the time when you become you. It makes sense, then, that the memories that contribute to this process become uncommonly important throughout the rest of your life. They didn’t just contribute to the development of your self-image; they became part of your self-image—an integral part of your sense of self.
Same holds true for my parents, friends, and colleagues. A quick look at the top touring bands of 2019 and you can see that the adults (e.g. old white guys) with excess disposable income are reliving their musical glory days.
“Most of modern life, all our diseases, are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity.
We are over-exposed to everything. So the way to survive in modern society is to be an ascetic. It is to retreat from society, there is too much society everywhere you go. Everyone is trying to program everybody. The only solution is to turn it off.”