📖 What I’m Reading:

​Americans hate inflation more than they hate unemployment – Noah Smith​

• We also hate inflation more than we care about social issues. For better or worse, “it’s the economy, stupid.”

​Read More Books – Packy McCormick​

• Given the dopaminergic alternatives that are out there, reading is basically meditating.

​The Age of Abandonment – Freya India​

• Turns out “we live in a society” is more of an injunction than a shower-thought.

Book finished: Essays by Michel de Montaigne: 4/5

• Wonderful and dense collection of essais, or “trials.” (Montaigne was the first to use the word as a literary term.) What it lacks in structure and formality it makes up for in earnestness and usefulness. Many passages read like a wise and friendly neighbor sounding off on topics big and small—virtue, hygiene, talking during meals, society, character, bowel movements. He covers erectile dysfunction at length. Enjoyable because it avoids strenuous instruction and instead just ambles along with Montaigne’s natural curiosity. Sometimes challenging but definitely rewarding to read. Notes here.

☝️ Word of the Week:

puerile (adj) PYOOR-yl

Immature, silly, childish; relating to childhood.

From Latin puer (boy).

“The show is as puerile and scatological as any male-centered series on Comedy Central, but oddly enough, it’s the self-degradation that gives it feminist cachet.”

💬 Quote of the Week:

“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.”

-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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ps: face melting jam of the week (YouTube)

pps: simple, lovely house song of the week (YouTube) (Spotify)

ppps: channel flipping (YouTube)