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The latest from author and investor Tim Ferriss
Hi All!
Here is your weekly dose of 5-Bullet Friday, a list of what I’m pondering and exploring.
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“14 June” by Organic Mood (Spotify, Apple Music). The artist’s description: “Moments of peace carried by the wind of June.” Try it on repeat for your next deep-work block.
Archived Futures by Ryan McEntush. This site collects 281 strange-but-true U.S. government plans and studies, many of them declassified, dating from 1857 to 2024. Take The Bat Bomb: a Pennsylvania dentist’s World War II idea to fit bats with tiny timed firebombs and release them over Japanese cities, where they would roost in buildings before igniting. In a 1943 test, “bats that escaped set fire to buildings at Carlsbad Auxiliary Army Airfield in New Mexico.” Also: Acoustic Kitty (the CIA’s attempt to wire cats for eavesdropping), A Study of Lunar Research Flights (a study for the Air Force on nuking the Moon, which features a young Carl Sagan), The American Hippo Bill (a bill to import hippos to eat the weeds clogging Louisiana’s waterways), and Counter-Zombie Dominance (a U.S. Strategic Command training plan for a zombie outbreak, chicken zombies included).
“A Full Day with New York City Ballet’s Sugar Plum Fairy” from Condé Nast Traveler. This short video follows New York City Ballet principal dancer Indiana Woodward from wake-up to post-show routine on a day she performs in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.
“How I’m Using AI Without Losing My Mind” by Paul Millerd. Paul, author of The Pathless Path, skips the predictions and reports what he’s actually doing with AI. If Paul’s name rings a bell, I previously featured his essay “The Great Contemplation,” which reflects on the impact of The 4-Hour Workweek.
Here is a short video of the book layout editor that Paul built for himself, which piqued my interest from the above article.
“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.”
— E.B. White, Letter to Mr. Nadeau, 1973
You can complement this edition of 5-Bullet Friday with my latest Q&A episode, where I answer your questions about how to get unstuck, resilience in hard times, tools for brain health, finding inner peace, optimism as a learnable skill, and much more.
And, as always, please give me feedback on X. Which bullet above is your favorite? What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Please let me know. Just send a tweet to @tferriss and put #5BulletFriday at the end so I can find it.
Have a wonderful weekend, all.
Much love to you and yours,
Tim
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