April - kashvireads #4
🔮 Crypto, 🏃🏿♂️ Can't Hurt Me, 🎙️ Podcast Recs and More
Hello! 👋🏽
April ‘21 has been a rollercoaster. We’re back in lockdown, and the situation in India is far worse than in 2020. Covid relief is a massive priority here right now, and I have attached a few links through which you can help towards the end of the newsletter. 🚨
Apart from this, I am knee-deep into crypto and NFTs. Yes, even more than when I wrote to you about this in February. I’m looking forward to sharing more about it with all of you very soon but without further ado, let’s review April!
📘 What I’m Reading:
“Fit Intuition” by Pamela Carey: A guide to help you with your fitness journey by blending psychology, nutrition and exercise. An interactive book with reflective exercises at the end of every chapter 🏃🏽♀️
“Anxious People” by Fredrick Backman: A fiction novel that focuses on how a shared event can change the course of multiple people's lives even in times of deep and ongoing anxiousness. A story with both comedy and heartbreak! 🎭
“The Psychology of Money” by Morgan Housel: The author shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. 💰
🎧 What I’m Listening To:
The Inspired Learning Podcast: My good friend Hrithik started this podcast in March and has interviewed top writers and entrepreneurs like Evan Carmichael & Alex Banayan. I highly recommend it because you will learn so much about what goes on in their actual lives and more about their background. I had a great time listening, and I'm sure you will too! 💯
Founder’s Journal: A daily diary of Alex Lieberman, the Founder & Executive Chairman of Morning Brew made public for the world. He shares fascinating insights about building in public and network effects. Listening to this podcast has helped me think better and gain an understanding of what building better looks like. ☕
NoSugarCoat with Pooja Dhingra: Hosted by pastry chef and owner of Le15 Patisserie, Pooja Dhingra, this podcast captures unfiltered conversations with icons from the hospitality industry as well as entrepreneurs in India. It dives deep into their journeys but still manages to have an element of fun in every episode. 🧁
🎶 April Playlist:
Taylor's Version, Ankur Tewari, Khalid & more …
📚 Advice from Books:
“The human body is like a stock car. We may look different on the outside, but under the hood we all have huge reservoirs of potential and a governor impeding us from reaching our maximum velocity. In a car, the governor places a ceiling on performance. If you disable yours, watch your car rocket beyond 130 mph. 🚘
It’s a subtler process in the human animal. Our governor is buried deep in our minds, intertwined with our very identity. 🧠 It knows what and who we love and hate; it’s read our whole life story and forms the way we see ourselves and how we’d like to be seen. It’s the software that delivers personalized feedback—in the form of pain and exhaustion, but also fear and insecurity, and it uses all of that to encourage us to stop before we risk it all. But, here’s the thing, it doesn’t have absolute control. 🎛️
Unlike the governor in an engine, ours can’t stop us unless we buy into its bullshit and agree to quit. ❌
🙃 Sadly, most of us give up when we’ve only given around 40% of our maximum effort. Even when we feel like we’ve reached our absolute limit, we still have 60% more to give! That’s the governor in action! 🔥
Once you know that to be true, it’s simply a matter of stretching your pain tolerance, letting go of your identity and all your self limiting stories, so you can get to 60%, then 80% and beyond without giving up 💪🏽.”
- Can’t Hurt Me, by David Goggins
💭 A quote that summarises this month:
“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.” – Amy Leigh Mercree
"It is our moral obligation to make an impact proportional to our potential.” – Bhavin Turakhia
📸 Photo of the Month:
🌎 Interesting Links that you can Explore:
Readwise.io: Readwise helps thousands of readers get the most out of their digital highlights. I’ve been using it to save Twitter threads and review notes for my reads. I highly recommend taking the free trial! 📘
Crypto Wallets 101: If you're new to the world of crypto and still figuring things out, I highly recommend that you watch this video and subscribe to Abnux2. As someone who has observed crypto for a while but is just starting with investments, I find his content to be extremely insightful. He has a very cool Discord Server too! It is private but if you’d like to join, follow Abnux2 on Twitter and keep an eye out for an invite 🔮
GaryVee X BeerBiceps Podcast Thread:
The Microwave Economy: A long-form essay from David Perell, who eats microwavable meals because they’re cheap and easy to make. Even if some of them are delicious, they’re less likely to be healthy, and he feels worse about himself after eating one. 😬 Each aspect of a microwave meal is designed for scale and instant gratification. Perell believes that they reflect the world we’re moving towards: one that aims to distil the complexities of human nutrition into a scalable scientific formula, with lab-created foods that can be consumed in seconds, and where the negative externalities are unrecognised and unaccounted for. Read on if you’d like to dive deeper into this concept! ✍🏽
Morning Brew ☕: Daily emails about business and tech that make reading news fun! I’ve been following their writers for a while now and finally decided to subscribe this month. Blown away by the sheer quality of news being shared, and the simplicity with which writers are delivering it. Please use my referral link! 🙌🏽
🚨 Covid-19 Relief Resources for India:
🙏🏽 Thank you for reading, and for subscribing to this. I appreciate all 282 of you. If there’s anything that I can help you with, please connect with me on the social links below. Hoping that May will be a great month for us all! I can’t wait to write to you again :)
All the love,
Kashvi 🤍
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