3 Ideas: The Week in Review

By Sahil Bloom 3 Ideas You Might Have Missed ​read time 2 minutes Welcome to the Curiosity Chronicle Week in Review—a quick roundup of this week's ideas to help you build a high-performing, healthy, and wealthy life. Week At A Glance: Weekly Wisdom: Being A Regular Wednesday: The Stories You Tell Yourself Friday: The Loud Liker Theory Wisdom Worth Sharing: The older I get, the more I realize the beauty in being a regular somewhere. Local coffee shop. Gym. Small restaurant. Whatever. There’s something special about the way these third spaces create a feeling of belonging. Real community. It’s deeply human and seriously underrated. (share to x/twitter!) Wednesday: The Stories You Tell Yourself When I was 13 years old, a single story changed the course of my life. But to understand it, I need to take you back in time to a strange experiment from decades ago. Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga was studying patients who had their corpus callosum surgically severed. His experiments led him to hypothesize that the left hemisphere has a specialized system he called The Interpreter, whose responsibility is to find clear cause and effect. Its job is simple: To take scattered, seemingly random data and facts about the world in front of you and stitch them into a coherent story that feels true. The problem is that we’d rather have a story that’s wrong than no story at all. For me, The Interpreter began telling a story when I was young: I wasn’t very smart. My sister was the smart one. I had to be something else. On Wednesday, I wrote about the stories we tell ourselves and the empowering truth that allowed me to confront my own: You wrote the stories. Which means you can rewrite them... (read the full piece here​) Friday: The Loud Liker Theory Confession: I’ve never been someone who was a natural in social settings. As something of an introvert, I struggled to build new adult relationships. I often felt others weren’t responding to my social signals. In most cases, I just assumed they didn’t like me and moved on. But it turns out I was actually falling victim to a damning collision of two psychological phenomena: Signal Amplification Bias: Our fear of rejection in social situations tempers our ability to convey social signals, and blinds our ability to recognize that tempering effect. The Liking Gap: We assume others like us less than they actually do. In effect, you send less than you think, and you hear less than they send. Two people who like each other leave an interaction convinced the other one doesn’t. On Friday, I shared a simple solution that has completely transformed my experience with adult friendships: Like people out loud... (read the full piece here​) The best life purchase of my year: The Matic Robot! To be honest, I expected to be disappointed when I bought a Matic in 2025. Every tech CEO I knew was telling me I needed one, but I figured it was all hype. 30 days later, I was asking the CEO to let me invest. It’s magical. Works in total darkness. Handles wet or dry messes with mop and vacuum functionality. So quiet that we run it at night. Saves us hours every week. Automate a cleaning cycle each night or simply point to the mess and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and off it goes. I can't stop recommending it to my friends. I even bought one for my parents and sister. Use the link below or code FRIEND-SAHILBLOOM at checkout to get a free year of HEPA bags with your Matic purchase! Get Your Matic Today! ​ Sahil Bloom Forwarded this email? Sign up here Follow me on Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube ​ ​ ​Send Me The Saturday Review Only| Unsubscribe​ From All Emails | | Update your profile | 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246 ​

Public Execution, Diesel Deal, and Birds in Boxers

The Pentagon plans to live-stream the Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major who killed 13 people and wounded 32 in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.                

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Saturday, October 10, 2026 Good morning! On this day in 1971, the London Bridge was dedicated in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, after being dismantled in Great Britain and reconstructed in the U.S.  Is the government really about to hand you $1,000 a year for retirement? The IRS has started mailing notices to millions of Americans about a new program that deposits federal matching money directly into retirement accounts, rather than just shave it off your tax bill. But there’s a catch. Plenty of savers will get the full $1,000, while others won’t see a dime, and the difference comes down to a few details on your tax return. So who qualifies, and how do you actually claim the money? Amy has the full story on today’s episode of The Flyover Podcast. Tune in here!  Today's edition is brought to you by Cacao Bliss. Try their delicious heart-healthy hot cocoa superfood drink. Military Execution to Be Live-Streamed The Pentagon plans to live-stream the Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major who killed 13 people and wounded 32 in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. Hasan will face an Army firing squad at 1 p.m. at Fort Hood, the hour chosen to roughly match when the attack began. President Trump approved the method on the recommendation of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public," Hegseth said. It would be the military’s first execution since 1961.  The idea of a public execution drew bipartisan pushback, with Vice President JD Vance expressing doubts about the plan, and saying if it was live-streamed, he wouldn’t watch it. Isaias Barrels into Panhandle Hurricane Isaias strengthened into a major Category 3 storm Friday and was expected to come ashore near Pensacola between 8 and 10 p.m. last night, with 120 mph winds, storm surge up to 9 feet, and as much as 15 inches of rain. Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 27 counties and mobilized about 5,000 National Guard troops. Okaloosa County ordered mandatory evacuations and opened shelters. Two Miami-based search and rescue teams, 168 responders in all, deployed to Tallahassee for a two-week stay. Forecasters also warn of flash flooding and tornadoes into Saturday. Bears Legend Mike Ditka Dies at 86 Mike Ditka, who coached the 1985 Chicago Bears to the franchise’s only Super Bowl title, died at age 86, his family announced Friday. The son of a welder, Ditka earned the nickname “Iron Mike” as a football star in Pennsylvania’s steel country. As a coach, he became known for his fiery temper, and his 1985 Chicago Bears shared his larger-than-life image, captured in the team's Super Bowl Shuffle music video. In 1988, Ditka became the first tight end inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He and former Oakland Raiders coach Tom Flores are the only men to win Super Bowls as a player, assistant, and head coach. Off the field, Ditka became a Chicago icon through restaurants, commercials, and a Saturday Night Live skit paying tribute to “Da Bears.” He also worked as a TV analyst and founded a fund to help struggling former players. Flying together with our sponsor Longevity breakfast dessert enjoyed by Blue Zone Costa Ricans helps them live to 100? 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(See Details) ➤ Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed full economic sanctions on the International Criminal Court Friday, escalating the U.S. fight against the global judicial body for cases against Israel, American servicemen, and the Trump administration. (More) ➤ Arlington County, Virginia, sued to stop President Trump’s 250-foot Triumphal Arch, becoming the first government body to argue the project skipped required environmental and historic reviews. (More) ➤ Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers traded insults over the Iran war, Israel aid, and gas prices in their first debate in the Michigan Senate race Thursday, continuing to argue even during the one commercial break. (See Details) ➤ In college football today, No. 1 Texas battles Oklahoma in the iconic Red River Rivalry, while unbeaten Nebraska hosts No. 7 Indiana and No. 21 UCLA chases its first win at Oregon since 2004. 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