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Why Can’t You Just Deal with It?

Joshua Rothman • Why Can’t You Just Deal With It? | the New Yorker

It’s common nowadays to talk about the “culture wars.” The notion is that we’re profoundly divided about the kinds of people we want to be, and that we express these divisions in everyday, sometimes petty ways. But, in Roy’s view, this framing is wrong. It would be more accurate to say that there’s a war on culture; what we call the culture wars ar... See more

Is Culture Dying?

subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman

Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami

Every smart person I know is a voracious reader who also says “every smart person I know is a voracious reader.” There are so few exceptions to this rule it’s astounding. College tuition at $25,000 a year comes out to roughly $100 per lecture. Good books – sometimes written by the same professor – can be purchased for fifteen bucks and can offer mu... See more

Morgan Housel • How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter

In a recent summing-up essay in Antinomy, Swiss observed

Adam Gopnik • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

After not much happening in the life of Sam Bankman-Fried for a very long time, two big things occurred in the fall of 2012, at so nearly the same time that it would soon be hard to remember that they had nothing to do with each other. Sam had entered his junior year at MIT as just another physics student who had lost his interest in physics. Appro

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

body of work demonstrating that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge,

(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

One other oddly big thing happened to Sam at the beginning of his junior year. Completely out of the blue, a twenty-five-year-old lecturer in philosophy at Oxford University named Will Crouch* reached out and asked to meet with him. Sam never learned how the guy had found him—probably from the writing Sam had been doing on various utilitarian messa

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization. While it is undoubtedly true that there are areas that require individuals with Tiger’s precocity and clarity of purpose, as com