Sunday Review #166 (25Aug2024)
📖 What I’m Reading:U-2 Twilight Landings At Beale Provide A Spectacular Show – Forbes
Chappell Roan Confronts The Sickness Of Modern Fandom – Defector
Chip War’s Chris Miller on Putin, China, and The Future – Mario Gabriele
☝️ Word of the Week:grawlix (n) GRAW-liks The characters, such as @#%$*!, used to convey profanity in a comic. Coined by the cartoonist Mort Walker (1923-2018). Earliest documented use: 1964. “This title contains … negligible cursing (sometimes represented as a grawlix).” 💬 Quote of the Week:“The more we stick to our plans, the more we reinforce our identity.” -Nir Eyal ps: Valerie (YouTube) (Spotify). The chimes before the chorus are so epic (0:40, 1:55). Sounds like Christmas. Chimes are cool. |
Thomas Tassin
📖 What I’m Reading: Outrageous Color – Steven Tassin My brother is a colorful and talented person. My mom was, too. Markets Are Information - Beating the Sportsbooks at Their Own Game – Jonathan Wang Fascinating. Mad respect to this arbitrageur. Money on my mind – Prof Paul Dolan “You are less happy when you are paying attention to time (and especially to time as money) rather than to the activities you are engaged in.” ☝️ Word of the Week: coruscate (v) KOR-uh-skayt To sparkle, flash, or...
📖 What I’m Reading: OpenAI as we knew it is dead – Vox Seems weird. Investing in an Age of Distraction – Jack Raines I’m still mad I missed out on $MOODENG. The Prophecy of Rust Cohle – Frederik Gieschen Excellent exegesis of True Detective Season 1, the greatest philosophical television of all time. History will exalt Matthew McConaughey and for good reason. ☝️ Word of the Week: thanatopsis (n) than-uh-TOP-sis A reflection upon death. From Greek thanatos (death) + opsis (appearance, view)....
📖 What I’m Reading: Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us – The New Yorker Profile on the author of The Overstory. “We play to keep on playing.” How to Succeed in MrBeast Production – MrBeast Leaked onboarding memo. Some interesting stuff. A modest tax reform proposal to roll back federal tax policy to 1997 – Owen Zidar & Erick Zwick Interesting proposal. I don’t agree with all of it—and certainly wouldn’t call it “modest”—but it’s fun to see the math and history...