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The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton”Sarapis of Pharaoh ...
tandfonline.comThis is interesting and it seems to verify the location of the burial of Alexander the Great, King Philip, and Cleopatra. This struck me as interesting at the time because I’ve recently listened to several Hardcore History episodes on Persian kings - “Kings of Kings” and “Mania for Subjugation ”
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# on shortification of "learning"
There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this ... See more
I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.
10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.
The half life of knowledge is the ... See more
“Enchantment” thread is interesting, I’ve saved an article recently about enchantment and much of the thesis was that attention = enchantment. Play = attention, and a specific type of it.
Quote from CS Lewis from Packy McCormick’s Election Day newsletter entitled, “Read More Books.”
How to Discover Your Own Taste
open.spotify.comA common mistake is not to be Ishmael but Captain Ahab. Ahab—the doomed skipper of the Pequod, the whaling ship whose crew Ishmael joined—was singularly consumed with finding and killing Moby Dick, the great white whale. The days leading up to Ahab’s fateful encounter with the great whale were a fever dream singularly focused on the object of his o... See more