Sunday Review #178 (29Dec2024) + Tom's 2024
📖 What I’m Reading:Health Care Administration Wastes Half a Trillion Dollars Every Year – Matt Bruenig
Analysis: In Medical Billing, Fraudulent Charges Weirdly Pass As Legal – Elisabeth Rosenthal
Book finished: The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer – 4/5
🥇 Tom’s 2024:Song of the Year: Much Ado About Nothing – Waxahatchee (Spotify) (YouTube)
Album of the Year: One of Wun – Gunna (Spotify)
Show of the Year: Pachinko – Apple TV
Movie of the Year: The Substance (only movie I saw in theaters in 2024)
☝️ Word of the Week:philistine (n) PHIL-uh-steen A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them. Originally from Philistine, a member of a non-Semitic people of ancient southern Palestine, who came into conflict with the Israelites during the 12th and 11th centuries BC. Compare with Palestine. “I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings.” 💬 Quote of the Week:“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” -Paul Klee ps: contributing (X) pps: time is non-real |
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...