Hello!
Welcome to another edition of Saturday Pentacle.
Last week was a reflection week for me. I conducted a half-yearly review of my yearly goals. As it is important to work hard on things you care about, it is more important to reflect on your progress in short and medium periods. For me, these periods are weekly, monthly and 6 monthly. It made me rethink about course correction and realigning my energies towards things that actually matter.
Otherwise, it was a productive week for me on the work side, on the creative side it was more of consume week than create. Next week is going to be a create week more than consume.
Coming to the book reading/listening progress, I listened to the Sherlock Holmes some more this past week and finished the Atomic Habits –
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – 75% done (Audible)
Atomic Habits by James Clear – 100% done (Audible)– This audiobook is like a page-turner version for audio (I don’t know if there is a specific word for it for audiobooks, let me know in comments if there is).
That’s it for the personal updates.
Without further adieu, please enjoy this week’s Saturday-Pentacle.
Issue 193 // Week 29 // 2020
An new material I’m exited about —
Pentadiamond – A new addition to the carbon family, Pentadiamond, is predicted to be light like graphite, hard like diamond and semiconducting like silicon.
I can’t even imagine, how many use cases are there for this kind of material. I’m excited to think about – how it might be used (i hope not as a weapon).
Here is the original research publication link.
A poem I loved —
I would like you to be still! read by Eva Green – I recently discovered the Eva Green has an Instagram page and man! isn’t it filled up weird but fresh stuff, I hadn’t been exposed to before.
This is Pablo Neruda’s poem “I would like you to be still!” in Eva’s brilliant voice –
The poem and the narration both are wonderful.
A show I loved —
Homecoming – I was excited to watch the Season 2 after an amazing Season 1 with Julia Roberts as the protagonist. Homecoming series is about how a private company authorized by military runs a program to make the PTSD veterans forget their past. But it becomes much more than that eventually. It’s a great drama and the way it is shot, kudos to the DOP.
I loved the season two as well, even though the protagonist is different in this but she’s a refreshing change.
You can check it out on Amazon PrimeVideo – Season 1 | Season 2
A Podcast episode I re-listened —
How to Become a Psychedelic Therapist – This episode of the Tim Ferriss show was amazing. Marcela’s story, the conversation about the psychedelic therapy and MAPS were out of the world.
A must listen. This was the second time I listened to it this week.
Quote which I found meaningful –
Once we let go of every thing, everything remains.
— The Minimalists
Before saying “see you next week”
I’m really excited to share the new Lifestyle Architecture Lab interactive community on Vibely app! 💙
Join today with this special invite link to the group.
Why vibely? Basically it’s a place where we want to make the group and our content interactive. There are daily interesting challenges like –
- Reading for 1 hour everyday and posting your progress
- Doing one act of kindness every day
- Journaling prompts for you
- Travel writing for 500 words
and more such creative challenges.
It’s a really fun place to be. You’ll get gamified rewards and recognitions for completing the challenges. We are trying to make it a safe place for all the like-minded people to join in the self-growth journey. If you are already working on your passion projects then you’ll get all the support you can and no bashing or judgement for being who you want to be.💡
Join today with this special invite link to the group.
P.S.: Our Facebook group is not going anywhere, we are just adding an interactive branch to it.
Until Next Saturday!
Thanks for reading.
Himanshu
About Author
I’m Himanshu Sachdeva, a technology professional working in Mumbai, India. I spend most of my spare time making Podcasts, YouTube videos and write on Lifestyle Design and sometimes stories.
Every Saturday, I send out an email newsletter called “Saturday Pentacle”, a list of the cool stuff I explored in the past week, including quotes, photos, books, articles, movies, documentaries and so on!
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Saturday-Pentacle // Issue 193 // Week 29 // 2020
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