Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
“Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people,” Barr told Variety.
As Hollywoke Crumbles - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Albert Einstein put it this way:
I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn’t going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.
Collaborative Fund • Lazy Work, Good Work
Morgan Housel:
Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.
sari azout • Principles for sharing on the Internet
Obviously, people are not as productive as they work longer and longer hours. It’s bad for health. It’s especially bad for women, people with families, people who have to care for elderly parents, people with children, and so forth. (My Hoover colleague Val Bolottnyy has a nice paper with Natalia Emanuel showing how overtime hurts women, even with... See more
Tax talk
Quitting audiobooks. They too easily become consumption as a way of occupying your mind and avoiding deep thought. Not actually reading.
Was it actually the goal of the founders of the USA to limit government by making it inefficient by nature?
Books to Read
The Federalist Papers
A Brilliant Solution | Berking
The Madisonian Constitution | Thomas
Checks and Balances in the American Constitution | Thach
Plain Honest Men | Beeman
It's pretty amazing to see the knowledge that I've gained from reading Prisoners of Geography becoming applicable literally in under 24 hours.
I just learned about the intricacies of the South China Sea yesterday and now listening to news commentary I heard someone talking about South China Sea and I knew exactly all the things they were talking
... See moreWhile each experiment presented an opportunity to dive deeper into a specific topic, they also allowed us to learn more about ourselves. With each new hypothesis, we honed our preferences, discovering what lit us up and what bored the living daylight out of us. I've noticed the same thing happens when we note-takers try a new digital tool. Whether... See more
Treat PKM app exploration like science experiments
Start or end every day with writing about your life. There’s always something buried underneath the to do list in your head, something you didn’t realise you felt, that when written down, will make everything clearer.