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
🏅 Tom’s 2025 Song of the Year: Damocles by Sleep Token (Spotify) Incredibly beautiful song on an otherwise dogshit album. Has drum fills that changed the way I think about cymbals (3:30-3:50). Also has bits: word painting on “harmony” (0:45) and tape record sounds at 2:10. Fun stuff. 2024 winner: Much Ado About Nothing by Waxahatchee Album of the Year: SWAG by Justin Bieber I’m not a Belieber. At least I wasn’t. But this album came out and blew me away. A lot of simple, catchy R&B songs that...
📖 What I’m Reading: How the 7-minute Louvre robbery unfolded – DailyMail Imagine holding something worth $100 million in your hands and dropping it and then just shrugging and getting on a scooter and scooting off into the crisp Parisian morning air. Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist – The Guardian Obviously his arguments are unhinged and just plain wrong. (Why exactly are international agencies bad? Just because you think they’re “shadowy?”...
📖 What I’m Reading: Stanislov Petrov – Wikipedia My #1 most underrated historical figure and story. “An investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned. Because his decision may have averted a retaliatory nuclear strike, Petrov is often credited as having ‘saved the world’.” Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious – Erik Hoel The new ethical frontier. Why the 5% Rule is the New 4% Rule – Nick Maggiulli New data on retirement spending. Book...