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Life 3.0 (Max Tegmark)- Book Summary, Notes & Highlights

In his book Life 3.0, Max Tegmark examines humanity's biggest challenges and opportunities through the lens of human and artificial intelligence. The book outlines many of the societal challenges that AI development creates, but also the opportunities for positive impact that AI offers.

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Show Your Work! (Austin Kleon) - Book Summary & Lessons

Austin Kleon’s book Show Your Work! is a how-to book for creatives to become discovered. Even if your work is fantastic it will probably need a little help to be discovered. Being "a creative" is not only the act of creating - it is being a small business! You have to market your work!

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Good Quests: Living a Good Life and Leveling Up Your Skills

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. I did not manage to publish this post last week, life got in the way. I had an important meeting at work that I spent a lot of time and energy organizing. Then I went to Italy for the weekend so I

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Living a Life of Purpose: Saturday Adventures & Finite Time

Life is short, so live a deliberate life, focus on the important things in life, find purpose, and be present to enjoy the good moments with loved ones.

Mindset (Carol Dweck) - Book Summary, Notes & Highlights

Mindset (Carol Dweck) - Book Summary, Notes & Highlights

Having the right mindset will help you achieve your goals and be happier. In her book "Mindset", Carol Dweck explains why adopting a growth mindset will take you further. It will allow you to consistently improve and eventually reach your goals

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The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel) - Book Summary, Notes & Highlights

By showing us that there is more to financial markets and investing than cold logic and rational thinking Morgan Housel makes the topic of money and finance come alive. ⏳The Book in 3 Sentences 1. Reasonable investing might be more effective than rational investing because humans are not rational and

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Luck and Life: The Four Kinds of Luck

Hello everyone, This weekend I traveled to Milano to visit my friends Simon and Gabriel. Having decided to travel more in Europe and go on adventures I got myself an interrail pass with 10 travel days in 2 months. This came in handy for visiting both Austria and Italy. Milano

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Life in Switzerland

Hello everyone, The last time I posted was in January and I was back home in Sweden having some time off and organizing things for my upcoming trip to Switzerland. Now I live here in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and have been for almost 7 weeks. For those of you who are

Setting Goals for 2023: Personal and Professional Ambitions

Setting Goals for 2023: Personal and Professional Ambitions

Hello everyone, I have now been back in Sweden for a little more than a week and I must say it feels good to be home. Especially when you have time off and create your own schedule. During the daytime, I have mostly been trying to organize things for my

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Reviewing 2022

Hello everyone, My publishing has not been great over the last month, to say the least. With exams and Christmas followed by an intense work week in Lyon, it has been hard to find the time and energy to sit down and write and publish a blog post. Hopefully, this

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Navigating Life: How a Lifeview and Workview Can Help You

A workview is your view of the role of work in your life and what meaningful work is. A lifeview is your values and what makes a good life.

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Improved Mornings and a Love of Reading

Hello everyone, We are now entering December and for me, this means exams are upon us, it also means my time here in Dublin is coming to an end. In three weeks I will be back in Sweden for Christmas, it feels kind of crazy. I don't know

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Writing: Amazing Tool For Clearer Thinking and Learning

Hello everyone, In this week's post, I am going to write a little bit about writing. How meta, right? The post got delayed by a day this week too, caused by a cold and an academic report that was due today. Perhaps I should just move the newsletter

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Human Behavior and a Movie Recommendation

Hello everyone, Unfortunately, I had to finish an assignment for university yesterday and it took longer than I had expected leading to the delay of this post. Here in Dublin, the exams are getting closer and my first exam will be in slightly more than two weeks. The semester has

Finding Your Career Path

Finding Your Career Path

Recently I have been in quite a few job interviews as my plan is to do a 6-month internship during the spring of 2023. Interviewing can be really hard. You don't know what questions they are going to ask and you have to showcase your best sides to

Creating Content Online: Quantity Over Quality

Creating Content Online: Quantity Over Quality

Hello everyone, I recently read a newsletter by Tintin Smith called Quantity Over Quality. The premise of the newsletter is that in content creation it is more important to create a lot of content than to focus on quality. If you keep creating content over time you will become better

My Experiences Traveling and Studying Abroad

My Experiences Traveling and Studying Abroad

Last week, I was at home in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the fall I am living in Dublin, Ireland doing an Erasmus exchange at Trinity College. The week was a reading week there, meaning there were no lectures and we were expected to study by ourselves so I went home for

300 Hours of Programming - Check-Up

300 Hours of Programming - Check-Up

Recently I have been trying to become a better programmer. I have always had a big interest in computers and always felt that I would like to learn how to program properly, but I always end up falling a bit short. I am trying to change this now with a

Welcome to This Blog

Welcome to This Blog

Hello and welcome to my first blog post on this blog. My name is Oskar Eggert and I am a 24-year-old from Sweden. I am an M.Sc. student at Chalmers University of Technology, but currently, I am on an exchange to Trinity College Dublin. I am excited to share