Sunday Review #173 (20Oct2024)
📖 What I’m Reading:A Message From the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia) – Morgan Housel
An Intuitive Guide to How LLMs Work – Jeremiah Lowin
The Lindy Guide to Lighting – Paul Skallas
☝️ Word of the Week:verisimilitude (n) ver-uh-si-MIL-i-tood The quality of appearing to be true or real. From Latin verum (truth) + similis (like). “There are moments in the new musical The Burnt Part Boys that mirror recent events with haunting verisimilitude.” 💬 Quote of the Week:“In truth, the good artist’s or thinker’s imagination is continually producing things good, mediocre, and bad, but his power of judgment, highly sharpened and practiced, rejects, selects, joins together; thus we now see from Beethoven’s notebooks that he gradually assembled the most glorious melodies and, to a degree, selected them out of disparate beginnings.” -Friedrich Nietzsche ps: I make a lot of dumb points, but I hope I never make one so dumb I get dril’d (X) pps: drop of the week @ 1:00 (YouTube) (Spotify) |
Thomas Tassin
📖 What I’m Reading: Mike White’s 15-Year Journey For “The White Lotus” – Trung Phan Mike White is Ed Schneebly from School of Rock. He wrote Season 1 of White Lotus in 14 days. And True Detective helped pave the way. The Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous Laws – Roger’s Bacon “Gibson’s Law: For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.” “Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” “The Lindy Effect: The future life expectancy of a...
📖 What I’m Reading: Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload – Common Cognition “At all times, whenever you are doing something or reading something, you should ask yourself the question: ‘What is the outcome I am trying to achieve here?’” The Abundance Agenda – Matt Bruenig Best review of the biggest book of 2025 so far. Jordan Rudess – Wikipedia I discovered Jordan Rudess via this video. I’ve never heard a keyboard sound like it does at 3:05. Virtuosic. Turns out his life is...
📖 What I’m Reading: We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It – The New Atlantis Tough one. I go back and forth. Yes, we benefit from many hidden systems that are indeed miraculous. Clean water, abundant food, etc. But there are still a lot of people struggling, and abundance, as we’re learning, causes its own problems. But I generally agree with this author’s outlook. We would do well to recognize this stuff more. This is the first in a series of essays on boring miracles. 50 Years of Travel...