#68 - Notes on Sneezing, Comics and Podcasts
Education Coffee is a Weekly Newsletter about People, Ideas and Culture.
In each edition of this newsletter, I will share five web resources that I have curated after hours of research to ensure that you have the best education coffee in your inbox. In upcoming editions, I will focus on sharing insights, notes and realizations that I gather from people, ideas, books, films and podcasts.
1. Learning from People
On Episode 31 of #LearningStories we chat with Dr. Aakash Lengde about his 8-10 year journey to become a doctor in India. He is an orthopaedic surgeon. He completed his MBBS from KLE University and his Master of Orthopedic Surgery from Nitte University. He is as much of an artist at heart as he is a doctor. Although he grew up in the U.A.E, he is now practicing in India, combining his love for the human body with his passion for movement and healing. When he is not in the OR or consulting with patients, you'll find him beatboxing, creating digital art, or capturing life through his lens. Fitness isn't just a hobby for him it's a way of life, and he is deeply invested in the science of sports medicine and recovery. He is excited to share a bit of his journey as a Doctor in India, his thoughts on the intersection of art and science, and everything in between.
2. Learning from Ideas and Questions
3. Learning from Books, Websites and Blogs
Ankur Warikoo is an entrepreneur (founded nearbuy.com and webveda.com) and content creator who share his thoughts on success and failure, money and investing, self-awareness and personal relationships on social media and his website. He writes a newsletter titled, Warikoo Wanderings where he shares actionable ideas to help you lead a smart life. I love his newsletter (with 100,000+ subscribers) and spent the last weekend browsing through archives from June 2020 to September 2024). My favourite editions of the newsletter are:
My Salary Jumped 10x in 5 years. Here is how (on education and how it opens doors for your professional growth)
My morning routine (on how routines set you up for success)
Money (on thinking about money as freedom)
She was out of my league (on meeting his wife)
10 uncomfortable truths about life (on life lessons you learn as you get older)
Ankur often writes candidly and reflectively about the importance of health, finance, entrepreneurship, failure, persistence and family. He is quite honest about his failures. You can read about this in his free illustrated ebooks tiled, Mistakes I made my 20’s, Mistakes I made my 30’s, Mistakes I made with Money, My Failure Resume. He also has a lot of useful insights on starting and running companies in India. You can read about that in the ebooks titled, A Thread on Leadership and A Thread on Time Management. I really appreciate the amount of content he puts out free of cost on Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and his website.
4. Learning from Films, Videos and Shows
Based on the beloved DC Comic, Sweet Tooth is a post-apocalyptic fairytale about a hybrid deer-boy and a wandering loner who embark on an extraordinary adventure. Most humans have been wiped of the planet because of a virus. The few remaining humans fight among each other. A special kind of human called a hybrid is the last hope. This hybrid is half human and half animal and is immune to the virus. Humans believe that hybrid caused the virus and want to kill all the hybrid. So the hybrids have to stay in hiding. Some humans and children want to protect them GUS was one of the first hybrids and he is half human and half deer. This is the story about how he survived in this post apocalyptic world with some special friends he makes along the way. I loved the concept of this series and got excited about getting lost in this new world with the characters.
5. Learning from Podcasts and Music
I loved Rashida Jones in The Office and Parks and Recreation. In this episode of the Great Creators podcast she talks about the influence of her famous parents, almost giving up acting and learning on the job.
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Abhishek Shetty