Currently reading: The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance by Eswar S. Prasad 📚
"Homeward Bound (for Ana Grace)" 🎵
The title track from Johnathan Blake’s upcoming album Homeward Bound is a beautiful tear-jerker. “Homeward Bound (for Ana Grace)” was written in memory of Ana Grace Marquez-Greene, the daughter of saxophonist Jimmy Greene & flutist Nelba Marquez-Greene, who died at Sandy Hook, just six years old. 🎵🔗
This is a wonderful appreciation of Norm MacDonald—the best I’ve read so far. 🔗
“Destiny waits in the hands of God, not in the hands of statesmen / Who do, some well, some ill, planning and guessing, / Having their aims which turn in their hands in the pattern of time.”
~T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
MNUFC old-timer Brent Kallman provides the context behind the “Nicest Rivalry in Sports” moniker. Spoiler alert: it’s not so nice. ⚽️
Another beautiful sunrise on Rish Lake🏡
Current listening: the Danish String Quartet’s Prism III 🎶
R.I.P., great author, publisher, and literary scholar Roberto Calasso 📚 🔗
In “The Future is a Decentralized Internet,” Olaf Carlson-Wee explains the theory behind DAOs and other blockchain-based networks. I’ve been exploring these ideas through the 1729 project. 🔗