Sunday Review #172 (13Oct2024)
📖 What I’m Reading:Outrageous Color – Steven Tassin
Markets Are Information - Beating the Sportsbooks at Their Own Game – Jonathan Wang
Money on my mind – Prof Paul Dolan
☝️ Word of the Week:coruscate (v) KOR-uh-skayt To sparkle, flash, or gleam. From Latin coruscare (to flash). “Her face was wrinkled and old like the pages of a well-loved book, her eyes shone, and her silvery hair coruscated in the moonlight.” 💬 Quote of the Week:“Every action reveals us. … One judges a horse not only by seeing it ridden at a gallop, but also by its walk, and even by the sight of it resting in its stable.” -Michel de Montaigne ps: masterpiece melodic house track of the week (YouTube) (Spotify) pps: chop suey (X) ppps: árbol (X) |
Thomas Tassin
📖 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...
📖 What I’m Reading: How to Make Millions as a Professional Whistleblower – GQ “’When I was first going undercover, I would get back to my car and throw up.’ These days, he relaxes by listening to metal bands (Tool and Nine Inch Nails are favorites) and playing video games like The Last of Us. ‘And before I’m about to meet with a potential scammer, I’ll meditate for 30 minutes or I’ll jump on Zoom with my therapist,’ he tells me. ‘After that, I’m in kill mode.’” Curious George and the case of...