3 Ideas You Might Have Missedread 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: Something To Look Forward To
- Wednesday: The Traffic Jam Theory of Success
- Friday: The Scarlet Robe Effect
Wisdom Worth Sharing:Major cheat code for life: Always having something on the calendar you're excited about. It can really be anything. Difficult physical challenge, big project, fun trip, ambitious goal, whatever. It creates energy. It promotes structure. It carries you through the lows. Life hack. (share to x/twitter!)
Wednesday: The Traffic Jam Theory of SuccessI was recently sent a New York Times article highlighting a striking trend: Job applications on LinkedIn have surged to 11,000 per minute, a figure that's up nearly 50% vs. the prior year. And AI appears to be a key driver behind the explosion. It reminded me of Braess' Paradox: When a new shortcut exists, everyone floods into it, which paradoxically makes everyone slower than they were before it existed. The fast lane becomes the slow lane. I think of it as my Traffic Jam Theory of Success. On Wednesday, I wrote about how to find the open road today, why the signal moves to the things that can't be faked, and how you can stand out and get ahead in the AI era... (read the full piece here)
Friday: The Scarlet Robe EffectA fancy robe nearly destroyed a philosopher's life. In 1765, Denis Diderot's financial means went from meager to extravagant. Soon thereafter, he came to own a fancy scarlet dressing robe. Diderot liked the status that the fancy robe conferred on him but quickly felt the remainder of his possessions could not compare. So, in quick succession, he purchased a new leather chair. New shoes. An elaborate wooden desk. All of which seemed appropriately matched to his lovely scarlet robe. Or, perhaps more important, appropriately matched to the type of person who wore such a robe. I call this phenomenon the Scarlet Robe Effect: A single status purchase can create a new identity. Each new purchase chases the identity that the last one created. On Friday, I explored the perils of bought status games and shared a simple question you can use to cut through the noise... (read the full piece here)
My most magical tech purchase of the year: Matic!
Confession: I bought a Matic in 2025 expecting to be disappointed. After bad experiences with robot vacuums, I was a total skeptic. 30 days later, I was begging the CEO to let me invest. And it's officially the only tech purchase I've made that has received wife approval. This thing is just magical. Works in total darkness. Handles wet or dry messes with mop and vacuum functionality. So quiet that we run it at night. It quite literally saves us hours every week. And now, their newest software update adds voice and gesture control. Simply point to the mess and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" or "Hey Matic, clean the living room" and off it goes. Use the link below or code FRIEND-SAHILBLOOM at checkout to get a free year of HEPA bags with your Matic purchase! Save an additional $250 if you order before 9/9.
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