Kern. — Quotes “When you’re Godzilla, every city is a walkable city.” “Financial markets are full of very clever, very aggressive people, and if there’s a flaw in your reasoning they will find it.” “All I do is eat, sleep, drink, and be negligent.” — John of Dalyatha (eighth century monk) “I began…

351–400 — About Listening to all albums (at least once) in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list. For the record, 1000 *pretty much anything* is an absurd undertaking. Each album has a little background and any tracks I particularly enjoyed. TL;DR Great means the whole album was fantastic. Good albums…

Siesta. — About Julia and I moved to Amsterdam in 2022, but since: We didn’t yet have a lease We just recovered from Covid The Netherlands (and most of nearby Europe) was still in a strict Covid lockdown Cold, rainy weather Work-from-anywhere flexibility for ~3 weeks a year …we decided to relocate to…

A Guided Tour of Mathematics from One to Infinity. — Link Numbers 69 is the only number where the square (4761) and cube (328509) use all digits 0–9 The right abstraction leads to new insights, and new power. Maths always involves both invention and discovery: we invent concepts but discover their consequences. Arithmetic

A History of the World’s Most Liberal City. — About A book by American journalist Russell Shorto, who also wrote New York City, The Island at the Center of the World. Dutch provinces were part of Holy Roman Empire, which according to Voltaire, was “neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.”

301–350 — About Listening to all albums (at least once) in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list. For the record, 1000 *pretty much anything* is an absurd undertaking. Each album has a little background and any tracks I particularly enjoyed. TL;DR Great means the whole album was fantastic. Good albums…

Cruxes. — Misc Studies show 3rd grade competencies have a pivotal influence on life outcomes Depressed people are fixated on the past, while anxious people are consumed by the future. A sabine is a unit of sound absorption named after the physics professor, Wallace Sabine who studied acustics The US working and middle…

The pon(z)ies. — Things I found interesting from the 147-page thesis. My comments in non-quoted italic. Don’t understand the copy-paste investing section. Starts professional, but a bit sloppy at the end (e.g. “Don’t. Fuck. Up. The. Money.” and “get in loser, we’re going shopping”). Littered with plugs and ads for Messari (fair enough)…

Morsi. — Misc In a single week in late June 2022, the conservative Supreme Court justices expanded gun rights, overturned Roe vs Wade, blew a hole in the wall between church and state, and curtailed the fight against climate change. US pension funds — through their share ownership — practically control the top…