Happy New Year!
I don’t know about you, but it was another quiet holiday season for this guy. I hope all my readers are in good health and fulfilled as we begin another lap around the sun.
I’m coming back to you on this first Friday of January with a Friday 5. As the new year can spur new ideas and habits, I may play with the format a bit over the coming months. For today, though, here is your Friday 5! You’ll notice a theme of looking ahead as well as looking into the past. While it may not seem like it based on these selections, I am still a strong advocate for living in the present 😉
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What I’m Thinking About (article)
What’s the Metaverse and what’s in it for music?
More Present-Day Futurism (article)
Could holograms be the future of entertainment and advertising?
Restoring the Live Experience, Virtually (article)
What I’m Reading – Ancient Wisdom
Ok, let’s take it back a little bit. For the last five days, I’ve been reading and rereading a single chapter in Meditations by the stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius. This book is $4 and has the potential to dramatically influence one’s outlook. Pretty solid investment. The chapter I’m stuck on (in a good way) is Book VI. I’ll provide an excerpt at the bottom of this email ?
Lots of love and luck to you all in 2022! Take good care.
Matt
Book VI 15. Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence, part is already extinguished. Motions and chances are continually renewing the world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always renewing the infinite duration of ages. In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things that hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows that fly by, when has already passed out of sight. Something of this kind is the very life of every man, like the exhalation of the blood and the respiration of the air. For such as it is to have once drawn in the air and to have given it back, which we do every moment, just the same is it with the whole respiratory power, which you received at birth yesterday and the day before, to give it back to the element from which you first drew it.