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It would seem most successful entrepreneurs are people who don't think the rules apply to them and then in fact that turned out to be right long enough to build enough capital to either eventually comply with or change the rules.
We just accept at the level of truism that the internet contains "the sum total of all information," but if this is true why do most of the best blogs consistently import knowledge from books into the internet?
A while back my wife and I saw the most recent version of Emma. It brought back to mind the terrible character of Frank Churchill. But Frank Churchill shows the default, normalized behavior found on any remotely popular section of the internet, so much so that I don't know if it is even possible to explain to them what is wrong with how Churchill acts. The classics bring my grief to the surface.
In these debauched times, the ability to read an unassigned book is potent signal of the tenderness, openness, and meta-cognition that is necessary (but not sufficient) to understand anything important.
To put a positive spin on the last quote, the test wouldn't work so well if our times weren't so debauched, decadent.
Also related. I know somehow I'm the one who would seem rude by saying "I want to gauge if this conversation is worth continuing, so please tell me about some of the books you've read in the last six months." Better to avoid situations where I even need to ask.
Many of those with an avid interest in collapse don't seem to understand that there is more to life than whatever ends up killing you.
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Links and Research
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So France has the highest per capita consumption of whisky in the world. This really doesn't fit to stereotype, but that's why we keep learning.
. . . Further interesting things down this line: India consumes the most total whisky. BUT 85% of the population doesn't drink, and so the U.S. has a larger population of drinkers. THEREFORE the Indian drinking population out-drinks the U.S. drinking population in whisky, but the billion people in India who don't drink drag the per capita numbers way down.
Speaking of alcohol, I wondered if was used as a drug in vision quests. It would appear this was true at least for the Iroquois.
"Granola Shotgun" has a beautiful piece that performs the near-impossible and combines deep-felt empathy for an individual elder while at the same time exposing how her story shows the cracks in the systems Boomers are going to try to rely on.
I'm going to also guess the women in this piece is the one who expressed in another piece that a van-dwelling nomad who worked as a tech professional was cheating the system. Her position was treated with grace there as well. Johnny S. sure does have a lot of tact.
I'm calling it quits on adding to my list of art from Reddit that deals with our Covid-19 shelter-in-place world. It is an interesting snap-shot of a moment and a gestalt.
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YouTube and Podcasts
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Data visualization to make primes and approximations of pi . . . stunning. The video finishes with a brief, inspiring statement about the importance of mathematical play.
I got interested in stretching and used the search term "science of stretching."
- First video mentions some of the basics of what happens in a stretch, however . . .
- Second video shows how the benefits claimed are incorrect.
- This podcast has an interview with a researcher who agrees.
- Apparently acupuncture isn't total bullshit. It has to do with moving connective tissue to get muscle stretches.
