Sunday Review #169 (15Sep2024)
📖 What I’m Reading:How to Make Millions as a Professional Whistleblower – GQ
Curious George and the case of the unconscious culture – Erik Hoel
The companies that help people vanish – BBC
☝️ Word of the Week:vituperatory (adj) vy-TOO-pruh-tor-ee Criticizing bitterly, scathing, abusive. From Latin vitium (fault) + parare (to make or prepare). “The loose-cannon ‘undiplomat’ best known for his vituperatory anti-UN mouthings and unbridled arrogance.” 💬 Quote of the Week:“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on ‘I am not too sure.’” -H.L. Mencken ps: men are simple creatures (Reddit) pps: sign me up for cookie butter nachos and a hot Cheetos Korean corn dog (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...