Martin Black
@martinxo
all the endless things
Martin Black
martinblack.substack.com
Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I alluded to what I call the “hundred pages strategy.” This is exactly what it sounds like: every day, come rain or shine, on religious and secular holidays, when I travel and when I am exceptionally busy, I read... See more
Matthew Walther • The Lamp Magazine | The One Hundred Pages Strategy
reading is good for me and Why read old and difficult texts
pages or minutes? one is good as another I expect
The writings of Plato and Aristotle are haunted by a figure who seeks wisdom of the highest things and who thereby gains practical wisdom, knowledge of how to govern. The first philosopher, Thales, fell into a well while looking at the stars, possessed by knowledge Aristotle called “wondrous, difficult and divine—but useless.” Yet Socrates fought c... See more
Zena Hitz • The Lamp Magazine | The Practical Wisdom of Eva Brann
EB White:
... See more“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new “attempt,” differs from the last and ta
You don’t have to upload any book into the system . The Great Cosmic Mind is smarter than most of the books you could jam into the context window. Just start asking questions. The core intuition is simply that you should be asking more questions. And now you have someone/something to ask!
I was reading a book on Indian history, and the author refere... See more
I was reading a book on Indian history, and the author refere... See more
How to read a book using o1 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why read old and difficult texts and reading is good for me
With GPT there is no longer a reason for not reading a book due to its perceived ‘difficulty’
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
maxims and
Roam through the fields and pastures of Roam and then mix it all in with Sublime, Roam is my larder, Sublime is the sorting hat.
Dean Swift = Johnathan Swift
via Dreams and ideals by Grace Farrington Gray