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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
The document explores the significance of pursuing knowledge for its own sake, emphasizing the value of intellectual freedom and the unexpected benefits that can arise from curiosity-driven research.
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A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
by @jburnmurdoch... See more
YOUR PATH TO PROSPERITY
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
This, it turns out, is not an accident. See Ira Zepp, The New Religious Image of Urban America: The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1997).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
