For Immediate Release:

Monday, October 20, 2014

This is a housekeeping post with one time-sensitive update and smaller recommendations. It’s split into two parts:

• The $5,000 Secret Santa
• Bite-sized Recommendations: 2 Books, 2 Movies, 2 Tweets, and 2 Songs.

The $5,000 Secret Santa

The short version: I’ve decided to go crazy and do a one-time-only $5,000 Quarterly box. It’s limited to the first 1,000 people, and it will ship before December 25. For that reason, I’m calling it the “Holiday Mega-Box.”
If you’re interested in learning more, please click here.
Normally, every three months, I ship out a box of amazing physical products with a personal letter explaining everything. It costs $100 per box, and thousands of people subscribe to it here. The theme is obsession–the ideas and objects I can’t get out of my head. Sometimes I’m hooked on a great travel gadget. Other times, I find an incredible book or productivity hack through my experiments. Here are the contents of some previous boxes. They’re often worth $200 or more and include custom items you can’t buy, liked original artwork from Simon Bisley or letters from authors, etc..
Interested in the absurd $5,000 box that’s destined to be unforgettable? Click here.
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Bite-Sized Recommendations

Here are a few things that have been capturing my interest recently: 2 books, 2 movies, 2 tweets, and 2 songs.
2 BOOKS:
Wilderness Essays
Who (on hiring, especially the “Selection” section)
2 MOVIES:
Into Great Silence
Snowpiercer
2 TWEETS:
Armless guitarist killing it
Down more than 200 pounds on The Slow-Carb Diet
2 SONGS:
Orchestrated Incident (Gramatik)
Pa’ Bailar Ft. Julieta Venegas (Bajofondo)
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