📖 What I’m Reading:

​The 4-Hour Life – Paul Skallas​

• For 90% of Americans, life is pretty much all about not getting fired.

​The 4-Day-Week in Germany – University of Münster​

• “73% of organizations stated that they will continue the 4DW beyond the trial, either by extending the trial phase or fully implementing it. Meanwhile, 20% opted to discontinue the 4DW, and 7% remained undecided. From the employee perspective 83% wish to continue.”

​Baby boomtown: does Nagi hold the secret to repopulating Japan? – The Guardian​

• Drop-in daycare. What a concept.

☝️ Word of the Week:

indefatigable (adj) in-di-FAT-i-guh-buhl

The quality of appearing to be true or real.

Incapable of being tired out; persistently energetic or tireless, even in the face of challenges.

From Latin in- (not) + de- (away, completely) + fatigare (to wear out).

“At midday, despite a scorching sun, Granny, seemingly indefatigable, went about with impressive skill trimming the rosebushes as we talked about trees and flowers and how to best cultivate them.”

💬 Quote of the Week:

“Proportional representation is often defended on the grounds that it leads to coalition governments and compromise policies. But compromises — amalgams of the policies of the contributors — have an undeservedly high reputation. Though they are certainly better than immediate violence, they are generally, as I have explained, bad policies. If a policy is no one’s idea of what will work, then why should it work? But that is not the worst of it. The key defect of compromise policies is that when one of them is implemented and fails, no one learns anything because no one ever agreed with it. Thus compromise policies shield the underlying explanations which do at least seem good to some faction from being criticized and abandoned.”

-David Deutsch

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ps: zakkyo​

pps: guitar tone of the week (17:27) (YouTube)