Books
Money: The True Story of a Made Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein. By one of the hosts of Planet Money. Short and interesting, made me want to learn more about the Chinese intellectual and scientific advances from around 600 AD to 1200 AD.
Articles
- Acceptance Parenting by Agnes Callard
- Why are non-alcoholic drinks so expensive?
- Vancouver is the anti-asian hate crime capital of the world. It’s also nearly 30% asian.
Podcasts
- Devon Zuegel, both on the North Star Podcast and with Alain and Marie-Agnès Bertaud on their own podcast. She’s inspired me to double down on a current tool of thought (writing) and to take much more advantage of another (the calendar)
Everything is interesting of you build a mental model for it
Alex Danco on the North Star Podcast. I particularly liked his discussion of Toronto and the section on the medium is the message. His newsletter has also put a number of things on my reading list.
Agnes Callard on the Ezra Klein Show. I also found this article on parenting to be thought provoking. I am really excited to listen to and read more of her.
Anna Gat on the Metalearn podcast. I think that the loss of religion as a driving cultural force is an incredibly important and underappreciated contemporary phenomenon, so I appreciated this quote:
Who builds the - to go back to Leonard Cohen again - the holy places where the races meet? We basically tore these down because they were too confining, but I don’t think we have replaced them. And I have been working very hard in building my own holy places in that sense.
Art
- Jenny Holzer’s Truisms