Tag: Books
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The new mid-life crisis is reading Proust.
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What would an annual intellectual purge look like? Accounting for and getting rid of unfinished thoughts and beliefs to start fresh, rather, declutter the mind. The goal is something like inbox bankruptcy.
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Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, utilitarian thrill of Courier New… It was a simpler time. From the original memo, it looks like 12 point? ↩
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Sounds like a fun game. 🔗 Gamebook Interview with Joseph Fry, Author & Illustrator of Lost in the City
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“Sometimes you get the sense that McCarthy believes the Twentieth Century actually ended in the 1980s and we just didn’t notice.” THE PASSENGER, Cormac McCarthy
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“impervious to the shafts of ridicule and insensible to slights” Notes from “The Story of the Typewriter”
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“he ends the memoir discovering instagram and finding purpose in being an asshole on there.” weekly retro #40
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“We’ve all got to die of something, he thought. Even if it’s just from staying alive too long.” Mini-story: Retirement
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“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.
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AI is not for experts
Emma Thompson does not need Clippy Jr.: “When I’ve written something and put it into a Word document, it’s constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’” Thompson said. The UK national treasure added: “I don’t need you to [expletive deleted] rewrite what I’ve just written. Will you [expletive deleted] off. Just…
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Tuesday Links and Wastebook
Relative to your interests I’m posting a lot more regularly on my weblog , most of the links below, and some content that doesn’t show up in the newsletter. Apologies if you’re living with duplicates. “CMDB” Is Dead — Long Live The IT Management Graph – What’s wrong with the CMDB concept, especially how it’s…
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“an encapsulated volume of pre-Fascist space-time” Alan Jacobs
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“I don’t know what it is other than what it does.” Tyler Cowen on Tetragrammaton The original sentiment: “The purpose of a system is what it does.”
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Friendship is difficult
If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse.” From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged by the task and…
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“I didn’t know whether or not to laugh or cry when he said that Trader Joe’s target customer is overeducated and underpaid.” Book Thoughts: Becoming Trader Joe
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This post’s title is rad
A post. Here is a man eating an apple: I read this book a lot when I was a kid. He has another book that was good too. I’ve read them to my kids. (I am using this post to test blog changes, so it is nonsense. What fun!)
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Clickable proverbs.
Ancient Dutch proverbs are the best. 🔗 Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Good parties
For when you want to be that accountant or in the first Ghostbusters. 🔗 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
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