No. 528 — June 11th, 2023 — Read on FS — Free Version

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Nassim Taleb on the Lucretius problem:

"We consider the biggest object of any kind that we have seen in our lives or hear about as the largest item that can possibly exist. And we have been doing this for millennia."

— Source

Insight

Good days don't necessarily make a good life:

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

— Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

Tiny Thought

The people who didn't do any work at home never did any work in the office. They're just easier to identify when they work from home.

Hard workers are hard workers no matter where they operate.

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Challenge your thinking:

“So the question we should ask is this: in worshiping diversity, in making it the highest value, what is it that we are missing? Is this an exercise in attention redirection, a kind of magic show in which you’re watching the magician and don’t notice the gorilla jumping up and down in back of the stage? There’s a latent premise in this line of questioning. When you observe, as we did, that what’s going on is both very evil and very silly, it sounds almost self-contradictory. How can something be both very silly and very evil at the same time? The answer is that what’s going on is very silly, but the silliness is distracting us from very important things. That’s the nature of the evil. Diversity becomes a kind of divertissement, distracting our attention from the things that really matter.”

— The Diversity Myth

On gas stoves causing asthma

"The only variables that contribute to asthma that are noticeably increased are obesity, sedentism, and pet ownership. The other option is increased diagnosis ... This was a clear-cut case of science being brandished for activism, and judging by the paper’s reception in the popular press and on social media, this obviously slapdash and compromised work was happily received."

— Source

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