Get Different Weekly: Atomic Bombs, Depressing Math, and Becoming Unignorable
Volume 003
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Edition at a Glance
Quote: living in the atomic age.
Tweet: go with the flow.
Article: depressing math.
Podcast: be unignorable.
Surprise: make the most of Twitter.
Different Quote
From C.S. Lewis. Presented without comment:
In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
“In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
“This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb – when it comes – find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
Different Tweet
A week later and I’m still thinking about this thread on work from Dan Koe.
Different Article
How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back
Depressing Math reveals a cold truth: While you may not be anywhere near the end of your life, you may very well be nearing the end of your time spent with some of the most important people in your life.
It starts as a bummer, but gets better. Promise.
(I’ve linked to the archive.is version of the article so you can skip the paywall. Original article appears here.)
Different Podcast
Unignorable: Twitter
The audio isn’t so hot. We don’t have a fancy page for the podcast yet. But doggone it…it’s done.
My friend David and I started a 10-minute weekly podcast called “Unignorable”. As the name suggests, we want to help you build a life that is unignorable. We’ll talk marketing, business, life, and more.
The first episode is on Twitter. It’s 10 minutes long. You can listen to it here.
Different Surprise
Speaking of Twitter…at the beginning of the year I got super serious about the bird platform.
I had built up a following early on. Then just kind of abandoned it. Huge mistake. Twitter is one of the few social platforms where you can actually get a decent amount of organic traffic.
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