“What if something happens to you?”

Then that would be way better than if nothing ever happened to me.

So I’m going for an adventure. Somewhere in the mountains. I’ll be back soon.

The Amazing Things & Ideas List

• BOOK

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

This is an amazing book about political differences. The opening chapter tries to answer the question of why the same people tend to be political adversaries in issue upon varied issue. The root of these conflicts are the “visions”, or implicit assumptions that people have about human nature; different visions imply radically different consequences for how they think about everything from war to justice.

Sowell talks about two fundamentally different visions (the constrained and the unconstrained vision) that underlie an enormous amount of Western political tradition, ideas and theories.

Highly recommend.

• PODCAST

715. Casey Neistat’s Unrelenting Pursuit of Interestingness – Rich Roll Podcast

This is the first podcast I’ve listened to from start to finish since a while now. And it certainly was worth it. Casey is a phenomenal creator and has been a giant inspiration for me as an artist. Hearing his story and thoughts around being a creator today was refreshing, to say the least. I loved this podcast.

• QUOTATION

“‘And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.’”

— Eleanor H. Porter, 1913, Pollyanna, Chapter VII: Pollyanna and punishments

New Podcast Episode

#8 – Charlie Jungheim: From Meditation to Mars

Charlie Jungheim (aka Hermes of Reason) makes videos about Critical Rationalism following the works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch.

In a fun and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about mixing comedy with intellectual stuff, our lives being transformed by the works of David Deutsch, how meditation links to epistemology, then Mars and more!

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

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