Saturday-Pentacle // Issue 172 // Week 8 // 2020

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By Himanshu Sachdeva

Hello there!

Hope your weekend was well spent. Recovering and reflecting maybe?

It was a long weekend for me and I was recovering from being under the weather from the mid of last week. I got better and worked on some creative stuff as well. 2 more podcasts are published now, one in the mid of last week and another one today.

So, all in all, it was an okay week with a recovery weekend for me. (How was your week? Reply in the comment section!)

Coming on book listening progress, I didn’t make much progress in listening to the books, just couple more hours than last week for both the books – Homo Deus (70% done) and “A Study in Scarlet” of Sherlock Holmes series (around 70% done). This week I’ll try to be more consistent. Past week 2 additional holidays reduced my commute by 4+ hours, hence less book consumption.

Coming back to the Saturday-Pentacle, let’s get on with it.


Issue 172 // Week 8 // 2020


An advise I loved

How to Create the Life You Want (And Find Your North Star) – Oh man! This guy – Nathaniel Drew. In this video hey shares how to create the life we want. Almost all of his self advice videos are amazing and I dig this one as well.

He shares practical things to discover what you love and how to pursue them.

Check it out.


News of the week

Death of Larry Tesler (Creator of copy and paste command)

Larry Tesler

The year 2020 continuous to shake us with deaths of Legends. After Kobe Bryant earlier, now the creator of Copy and Paste Command in computers Larry Tesler, died on 16th Feb 2020. May he rest in peace, who made lives of modern-day humans who use a computer so much easier. (Can’t imagine what will we do without copy, paste).

Lawrence Gordon Tesler was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human-computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!


A person I’m curious about —

Taika Waititi – Taika won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his Movie Jojo Rabit this year. In this movie, he also played the role of Adolf Hitler who is an imaginary friend of a Jojo a young boy living in Nazi Germany.

Here is a TedX talk Taika gave on The Art of Creativity in Doha in 2010. Which blew up to many million views in the past few days, after he won the oscar. His works are just astounding.


A video which blew mind –

Billie Eilish Talking to a robot – I just loved this conversation between Billie Eilish and a robot driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Even though initially it looked like a gimmick but it isn’t. I was blown away by the quality of questions.

Machines are coming closure to humans.


Quote I’m pondering on lately – 

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle

Before saying “see you next week”
Here is a podcast episode I published in the past week. Episode 17 with Chhavi Sachdev. We talk about podcasting, radio culture in India her story, routine, tools, tips and a much more.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NizeIL1pb6xIQIos8iWVL?si=xIYM-qqOQAK_4kVmXsYPMg

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu


Hey friends, I’m Himanshu, 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 172 // Week 8 // 2020

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 21 – 2018

Saturday-Pentacle – Week 21 – 2018


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Saturday-Pentacle - Week 21 - 2017


Post of the week –

New episode on “The Himanshu Sachdeva Show” today –

#14 – Story time – On my toes in the back of an uber!

Today’s episode is a new section called Story Time where I tell a story I lived through or heard.

Today’s story is about of a late night Uber ride I took recently.


My most popular Instagram post recently

While coming back from Nashik, we took a detour through the mountain valley accidently.
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There were mountain capes all around the road. But the most amazing thing which happened was the river we found flowing through these mountains and almost 400 meters away from the road we were on.
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It was a scene almost out of a filmic landscape. Mountains in the backdrop and the river and the riverbank in the front.
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Riverbank was soft. But we could stand over it.
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Right before the road there were these flowers grown from near the rock. Almost like dandelions but they weren’t.
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Then we were back to the car and off we started back to our path.

Detour!
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Click the photo below to read the entire story.


Article I found interesting  —

Rebuilding Your Savings After An Emergency Expense – If you are interested in achieving financial freedom and you were on the path to creating funds to get out of the job (you don’t like) or to start a business (you always wanted), but what if an emergency happens? (it’s not rare, it happens)

This article guides well on how to come back from an emergency and rebuilding your savings again.


What am I watching —

Woman by HONNE – Found this really ambient piece on a Spotify Playlist. If you had a rough day it will set you up for the evening.


Quote I’m pondering on lately – 

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

— Aristotle


Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

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