Rest in peace, Kenzaburo Oe. My friend Caleb introduced me to Oe back in 2004 or 2005, and I came to love his novels A Personal Matter and An Echo of Heaven.
His Paris Review interview is truly fascinating.
Rest in peace, Kenzaburo Oe. My friend Caleb introduced me to Oe back in 2004 or 2005, and I came to love his novels A Personal Matter and An Echo of Heaven.
His Paris Review interview is truly fascinating.
Rest in peace, Wayne Shorter, one of the very greats. 🎶
Current listening: Kendrick Scott, Reverence.
A 2009 album featuring some incredible players: not just Scott, but Gerald Clayton, Walter Smith III, Mike Moreno, and Derrick Hodge. 🎶
Attention is how one disposes oneself to the world.
~Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things
The more I use Arc Browser the more I love it—and I’ve been using it a lot! It restores some joy, some delight, to using the Internet. 🔗
Start of a new season for my beloved MNUFC tonight. I’m not optimistic about the season, but I am looking forward to it! ⚽️ #COYL
Finished reading: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg 📚
For the most part, a very good and useful book on project management—research grounded in reality, presenting some useful heuristics. Fans of Taleb & Kahneman/Tversky will like it.
Currently reading: Dubliners by James Joyce 📚
Chiefly, “The Dead.” Is there a more beautiful story?
What happened to literary studies? If professionalization was the flaw in the construction of the bridge, making it unstable, it turns out there’s a meteor heading for the bridge anyway: the steady diminution of literature’s role in a culture where electronic, networked media is dominant. […] By lowering the barrier to entry, the Internet encouraged an early 21st-century efflorescence of occasional criticism and spontaneous theorizing that fostered vibrant subcultural readerships.
Finished reading: Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 📚