Three things to enjoy - Monday edition
Advice, a music recommendation as usual and a third secret thing
A late newsletter: I arrived on Taipei Sunday morning after 33 hours in transit. What a beautiful and cinematic city, I’ve been loving the defined color scheme of brown, green, and dirty pastels with dashes of yellow, blue and red. Here’s a picture and the three things to enjoy today.
1. A short (1:42) clip of Steve Jobs talking about asking for things you want and not being afraid of failure. The sentence that stays with me:
”That’s what separates, sometimes, the people who do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act and you gotta be willing to fail (...) If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far."
It is carnival week in Brazil, so the music recommendation is inspired by that: “Sambas de enredo” are a sub-genre of sambas that tell a story and are made specially for the samba schools presentations. They change every year and the carnival presentation represents the story that is told through the song. More about them here.
From the British Library via Unsplash, this drawing of the polar night, made on November 24th of 1893. This image is incredible and vibrant, I cannot imagine how much vibrant the actual landscape was. This picture appears on a book by Fridtjof Nansen, a polymath and Nobel prize laureate, the book is The Norwegian North Polar expedition, where he narrates his attempt to getting to the North Pole. Apparently he didn’t succeeded in getting there, but he made impressive scientific and geographical discoveries. In case you’re interested in falling down a rabbit hole: here’s the English and German version, here’s the book of scientific results in English and the page where this illustration can be seen.
Leave me a comment if you enjoy any of these, and always open if you want to send me your recommendations.
Wishing you the best in this week where February ends and March begins.