Trove - July 26th 2022
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Hi everyone!
Here’s your weekly trove of recommendations. If you enjoy it, please feel free to forward this along to friends.
Quotes from The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb
“If you get easily bored, it means that your BS detector is functioning properly; if you forget (some) things, it means that your mind knows how to filter; and if you feel sadness, it means that you are human.”
“It takes a lot of skills to be virtuous without being boring.”
“For the robust, an error is information; for the fragile, an error is an error.”
“Skills that transfer: street fights, off-path hiking, seduction, broad erudition. Skills that don’t: school, games, sports, laboratory—what’s reduced and organized.”
Instrumental music from an excellent puzzle game: Monument Valley 2
This one in particular I’ve listened to in so many different moods that it doesn’t fail to make me a bit emotional on listening; gorgeous track.
T-shirt: I like this reminder about creativity
Bill makes absurd and catchy songs on YouTube
Article & Podcast: The Japanee tradition of Hanko
Though I didn’t need one until my second year in Japan, I finally bought a mitome-in, mentioned in this article, in order to sign an apartment rental contract. I ordered it with the katakana characters for Kaestner: ケストナー(kesutona-)
Video: An astounding fact from Chris Fleming😆
Thanks for reading, y’all. See you next week!
-Tobin