Your morning commute is your reflection time.
Your podcast time.
Your one-man-band practice time.
And most importantly, your driving time.
To celebrate all that, we’re teaming up with Mercedes-Benz on Morning Commute, a dossier of six quick, smartphone-friendly essentials to help you start the day off right.
Word of the Day
hind·sight
noun
Don’t dwell on the past. You can’t change it, after all. But don’t ignore it, either. A wise man analyzes every situation through the prism of his own experience, making sure he uses past encounters to inform how he moves forward as effectively as possible.
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The new Mercedes Benz GLC features a standard rear-view camera offering the driver a 360-degree view of the vehicle’s surroundings and allowing it to park itself like a virtual valet. Because sometimes what’s behind you is as important as what’s ahead.
THE APP
Hindsight – Time Interval & History Tracker
by Ehsan Rezaie
Designed to make you more aware of how often events in your life occur (gym trips, doctor visits, calls to family members, etc), the Hindsight app tracks the passage of time since something last happened and creates a histogram that provides “new insights at a glance” in order to help you curb bad behaviors and maintain good ones.
GET IT HERETHE APP
Hindsight – Time Interval & History Tracker
by Ehsan Rezaie
Designed to make you more aware of how often events in your life occur (gym trips, doctor visits, calls to family members, etc), the Hindsight app tracks the passage of time since something last happened and creates a histogram that provides “new insights at a glance” in order to help you curb bad behaviors and maintain good ones.
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THE AUDIOBOOK
Superforecasting
Phillip E. Tetlock
From some of the best minds in social sciences, Superforecasting takes on a subject we all wish we knew more about: predicting the future. Drawing on decades of research and interviews, the book looks at how decision-makers analyze the future to choose their next move. Equal parts scientific, nebulous and practical.
Download Via AudibleTHE AUDIOBOOK
Superforecasting
Phillip E. Tetlock
From some of the best minds in social sciences, Superforecasting takes on a subject we all wish we knew more about: predicting the future. Drawing on decades of research and interviews, the book looks at how decision-makers analyze the future to choose their next move. Equal parts scientific, nebulous and practical.
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THE PODCAST
The Yin and Yang of Basketball
99% Invisible
When Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891, he made a then innocuous decision to place the basket 10 feet off the ground. More than a century and countless rule changes later, it’s clear that that decision had drastic effects — both practical and political — on the sport’s evolution.
THE PODCAST
The Yin and Yang of Basketball
99% Invisible
When Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891, he made a then innocuous decision to place the basket 10 feet off the ground. More than a century and countless rule changes later, it’s clear that that decision had drastic effects — both practical and political — on the sport’s evolution.
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THE TRACK
Never Going Back
Caveman
The best music keeps one eye squarely in the rearview, and the lead single from the Brooklyn band’s third album picks up where they left off three years ago: sounding a lot like Bruce Springsteen. It’s certainly not a trend we take issue with, as evidenced by our similarly high regard for other #bossgaze artists like the War on Drugs and Gaslight Anthem.
THE TRACK
Never Going Back
Caveman
The best music keeps one eye squarely in the rearview, and the lead single from the Brooklyn band’s third album picks up where they left off three years ago: sounding a lot like Bruce Springsteen. It’s certainly not a trend we take issue with, as evidenced by our similarly high regard for other #bossgaze artists like the War on Drugs and Gaslight Anthem.
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THE QUICK READ
How People Learn to Become Resilient
By Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker
Can a human’s ability to overcome difficult circumstances learned or inherited? It’s a question the late University of Minnesota psychologist Norman Garmezy and his students have devoted more than 50 years of research to. The answer lies in how humans react to, cope with and internalize traumatic events from their past.
Read via The New YorkerTHE QUICK READ
How People Learn to Become Resilient
by Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker
Illustration by Gizem Vural
Can a human’s ability to overcome difficult circumstances learned or inherited? It’s a question the late University of Minnesota psychologist Norman Garmezy and his students have devoted more than 50 years of research to. The answer lies in how humans react to, cope with and internalize traumatic events from their past.
Read Via The New Yorker
Illustration by Gizem Vural
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