Thursday | Arbitrage

5/2/24 I spent the early morning hours reading a few articles on The Atlantic. The most interesting one was The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste, by W. David Marx. In the past, tastemakers in the worlds of fashion, art, and music established careers through this sort of

Tuesday | Knife

4/30/24 I heard Salman Rushdie interviewed on The Ezra Klein Show this week (Apple Podcasts, NYTimes). In this interview, Rushdie read the following text from his most recent book, a memoir Knife of his being attacked and almost killed in 2022. Klein asked: You write, “This is as

Monday | More on The Iliad

4/29/24 Top of mind: More From The Iliad On Saturday, I posted something inspired by something I read in The Iliad. It focuses on an exchange between Agamemnon and Achilles, which takes place very early in Book One of the text. What happens is this: Agamemnon has used

Saturday

4/27/24 Hello from a Saturday afternoon. Whoever you are and wherever you are, I hope you're doing well. Top of Mind I've been reading The Iliad. I just finished book one (of 24), and there is a scene in it that I keep thinking

◉ Recommendations | 3 Things

Hi, It is Friday! The day I send you a list of things I hope it will bring some surplus jouissance to you. |1| LISTENING (Song/Musician) – The first thing I want to call your attention to is the song In a River by Rostam (Apple Music, Spotify). You can

Dialogue Driven Film

I watched this film last night. Generally speaking, I like dialogue-driven films more than action-driven films. However, I'd never seen 12 Angry Men before. I got caught up in the story and the characters and became very quickly engaged in the story being told. I plan to watch

QCP-018 | Renovations

Content: This episode is recorded outside on the go, so the audio quality is not as high as I would like. I talk about living through home renovations, which I wrote about in this week's ◉ Newsletter. Referenced: Dead cat microphone windscreen

Afterwardness

From I have an even more pressing sense that the next seven years of my life will look very different than the last seven. And that I won’t know the full weight of that difference until after the After. This is an excellent example of the psychoanalytic concept of

◉ Newsletter | Ramble Fest

Greetings & salutations, This edition of ◉ Newsletter is coming to you late. I started writing it early on Sunday morning and have been chipping away at it since. The content is a ramble fest, so if you don't enjoy that kind of thing, you probably want to skip

Reading The Iliad

Here is a short line: the god spread deadly plague throughout the camp, so that the common troops began to die, In 16 words a story is told.