Sunday Review #167 (1Sep2024)
📖 What I’m Reading:An Age of Hyperabundance – Laura Preston
Solar and batteries are helping Texas weather heat waves. Here’s how. – Canary Media
Gambling Away Stability: Sports Betting’s Impact on Vulnerable Households – Baker, et al.
☝️ Word of the Week:fulgent (adj) FUHL-juhnt Shining brilliantly; radiant. From Latin fulgere (to shine). “The storm has ended, clearing the sky for a fat, fulgent moon.” 💬 Quote of the Week:“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me… So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly.” -Aldous Huxley ps: large dog (X) pps: sales vibing with legal (X) |
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...