The Journey - August 29th, 2023
A newsletter around learnings, experiences, creations and discoveries.
Hi all,
And welcome to another edition of The Journey - I hope these discoveries will fill your days with smiles, surprises and maybe some insights! Next week will be filled with more coliving-related stuff. Enjoy 😋
Why you’re getting this: I'm Gui Perdrix and this is my newsletter where I share life learnings, musical creations, coliving discoveries and sharable things that caught my attention. You can unsubscribe below (I won’t be offended).
Quote of the Week
Me: "Are you living your dream life?"
Him: "While I’m still chasing future dreams, the truth is that I'm living the dreams I used to have. So, in this way - yes, I'm living my dream life, while always continuing to dream further ahead."
In conversation with my friend Arthur (Bigzy).
A New CLUB NATURE Set Is Live!
This time, in Azores with my friend and producer Vitaly Neskuba. Minimal electronic music and completely improvised. Enjoy the sunrise!
Tech Discoveries of the Month:
Intro.Club: A webapp that matches people from one community through AI.
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MyPlace: An app that allows you to host and stay with friends.
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Tip: On that topic, Phil from Supernuclear is hosting an event tomorrow about how to live near your friends.
Quote I’m Pondering On
“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
― Steve Jobs
What Blew Me Away
Few weeks ago, almost 1 million Christians came to Lisbon to see the Pope for the World Youth Day. And then, in between prayers and ceremonies, came this priest who nailed a 30min DJ set, combining gospel, dark techno and the pope’s voice - insane. Tip: watch at 4min.
Personally, very inspiring from a musical perspective. And, oh boy, the Catholic church has upgraded its musical taste, hallelujah! :)
Do you love you work?
Some reflection on what love truly means:
"If you define love as "caring about something more than yourself", then the answer to "Do you love your work?" shouldn't be whether your work gives you pleasure. The answer should be measured by whether it's giving you the feeling of a calling that's bigger than yourself."
my friend Anu (author also of a great book)
Want to Understand Techno Music?
Then give yourself three minutes to watch this video by my friend Oscar. Magnificent artistic creation.
Book That Gave Me Hope
Newest and most captivating book of the year: Humankind by Rutger Bregman. This is kind of the book I was always secretly hoping to one day come out - and turns out, it did! This book takes a deep dive into the core of "human nature" - with real scientific evidence backing it up - with a simple thesis: humans are good and cooperative by nature.
A few stats that blew me away:
The Standford experiment was completely set up. The guards were ordered to misbehave. The whole notion of “humans do bad things if you put them in bad situations” can’t therefore be the conclusion.
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Only 11% of soldiers on battle fields ever shoot. Most people just can’t shoot another human.
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Whenever chaos emerges - for example, in wars, after hurricanes, etc. - humans tend to help each other. Self-destructive anarchy is seldom the outcome.
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Ultimately, it boils down to this: we make true and see what we believe in. Let’s therefore better believe in our positive nature, as the opposite means creating a world based on greed, fear, and scarcity. Too many of our systems are already based on that (from politics to prison systems and schools).
Song of the Day
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Wishing you a great end of the month,
Gui
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