While exercising today, I listened to Ray Dalio on DOAC. The interview starts slowly, repeating things published elsewhere. Then Steven manages to tease out Dalio's insights, tying together disparate threads into a more cohesive picture. We get perspective on the man and his learnings, as applied to Bridgewater
Listened to Tyler and Steven Pinker discuss the liberal enlightenment's backsliding tendencies on the drive from Vegas to Phoenix last night. Aside from confirming the decline of Harvard, it gave me an interesting reference class and new lens in which to view &U. Grok very aggressively agrees!
I remember shooting a .22 rifle as a kid sometime age 10-14, probably at Camp Minikani or Manito-wish. Also once I fired a shotgun at skeet, but I'm pretty sure I missed every clay pigeon...the details are a bit fuzzy. For the first time shooting
Allison and John run an amazing tour on electric bikes. After visiting Las Vegas at least 4 times that I can remember in the last 10 months, this is hands down my new favorite activity to recommend on or off the strip. Allison answered the phone very last-minute that
At the Wynn in Las Vegas, apparently you cannot enter a certain fine dining establishment wearing shorts as a man. Even if they're nice shorts! The staff are more than happy to let you in, after you go upstairs and put on khakis in your hotel room then
On a pensive stroll around Austin we encountered a woman topless and possessed. She shook her arms at the sky as she flew past, like noodles flung with desperate violence at God, deliriously screaming to match her furious pounding pace. Garbled nonsense suddenly spewed at us from the corner of
I'm visiting the capital of Texas for the first time. There's construction on the waterfront. Uber gossip says the new building will be tallest in the state. We're staying near the Mothership. Joe Rogan has leveraged his platform and resources to designate comedy'
I played in a chess tournament last weekend where my opponent recognized me from the Boylston Club in Boston 7 years ago. He was 11 or 12 years old at the time, and we were both rated ~1900 when he beat me back then. Now he's a college
When people say social media is poisoning society, I think they're being intellectually lazy. Social media is primarily a neutral tool. It's a technology just like radio, TV, newspaper headlines, or money. One might find Netflix addictive, but movies aren't destroying society, are they?
In "Runnin' Down a Dream", Bill Gurley describes the historically ambitious journey of Bob Dylan hitchhiking to NYC with $10 and a guitar. The year was 1961, humanity had yet to reach the Moon, and Bob Dylan was only 19 years old...in fact, his legal name
I happened to spend some time yesterday on a university campus. At one point, I sat down and listened to a podcast. I watched tour groups, couples, and friends stroll by. It struck me how young some of these students looked. I forgot how college often feels like an extension
The past two weeks have been truly marvelous. From stories around the fire to graceful dinners with loving soups, artisanal morning rituals to treks on the power line trail, deep library work to freestyle rap—I will miss our cozy perch on Ski Run Boulevard. It pains me to leave