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 |
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📖 What I’m Reading: Inside America’s Death Chambers – Elizabeth Bruenig Best piece on the death penalty I’ve ever read. Elagabalus – Wikipedia “Elagabalus developed a posthumous reputation for extreme eccentricity, decadence, zealotry, and sexual promiscuity. … Elagabalus ‘abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures with ungoverned fury’ … ‘Elagabalus was not a tyrant, but he was an incompetent, probably the least able emperor Rome had ever had.’” A Consensus Statement on Potential Negative...
📖 What I’m Reading: Simon-Ehrlich Wager – Wikipedia Fun example of an academic putting money where his mouth is. Over the decades, life gets better in terms of resources. But it gets worse in terms of equality and ennui. You Can’t Put a Price on Mental Freedom – Nick Maggiulli Stock picking bad. Phone bad. WWEconomics: Kayfabe and the Trade War – Kyla Scanlon All the world’s a stage. “The show will continue because the incentives align: politicians get attention, corporations get deals, and...
📖 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...