Summary: This week’s Wisereads highlights Steve Pratt’s upcoming marketing book, “Earn It,” which focuses on creating valuable content for audiences. It also features insights from Sam Altman on the future of artificial intelligence and Thea Lim’s reflections on the struggles of contemporary authors. Additionally, there’s a discussion on Britain’s productivity issues and a look at a YouTube video exposing phone system vulnerabilities.
For centuries, Britain had a development control system that supported urban growth in the places with the most successful industries, as well as building beautiful cities that we treasure today. Since 1947, however, Britain has had probably the most restrictive development control system in the world. This has held back our strongest sectors and businesses and stopped people from moving to the places with the best jobs. (View Highlight)
We can do a lot more with SS7. We can also intercept text messages as part of our suite of attacks. Similar to phone calls, we can trick the network into thinking the target is roaming, which reroutes their messages to our GT. We can then steal one time passwords used in two factor authentication (View Highlight)
Resistance amplifies negative emotions. Acceptance diffuses them. It’s like quicksand: The more you fight, the deeper you sink. Waitzkin’s method observes the struggle without judgment. This creates mental space for solutions to emerge naturally (View Highlight)
Instead of cramming and rereading, researchers recommend that aspiring learners adopt a growth mindset, space out and interleave their practice, and recognize that fluency doesn’t equal mastery (View Highlight)
here is no formula for the complex process of learning, but if we had to come up with simple one, ‘Mastery = Understanding + Repetition (In Varied Settings)’ would be a good candidate. (View Highlight)