Sunday Review #168 (8Sep2024)
📖 What I’m Reading:Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad – Hamilton Nolan
China is pushing divisive political messages online using fake U.S. voters – NPR
☝️ Word of the Week:neurasthenia (n) noor-uhs-THEEN-ee-uh An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. “Peabody’s muscular Christianity reflected elite anxieties at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries around a loss of manliness and a spreading neurasthenia compared with the rougher pre-industrial times.” 💬 Quote of the Week:“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” -Vincent Van Gogh, who sold only one painting during his life ps: a moon can have a moon and it’s called a moonmoon pps: Jack Dorsey ran two publicly traded companies from his Notes app (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...