Favorite 2022 I've reread this year
1. "Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can...Countersignal" @robkhenderson
"If you’re a top executive, turning up to work on a bicycle is high status. But if you work at Pizza Hut, turning up on a bike means you can’t afford a car."
1. "Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can...Countersignal" @robkhenderson
"If you’re a top executive, turning up to work on a bicycle is high status. But if you work at Pizza Hut, turning up on a bike means you can’t afford a car."
2. "The Attraction for Drugs is Spiritual" Osho.
"Don’t use the drug, otherwise imprisonment for five years, seven years.
And the people who come out of the jail go back again because…the drug gives them something which your society is not giving."
"Don’t use the drug, otherwise imprisonment for five years, seven years.
And the people who come out of the jail go back again because…the drug gives them something which your society is not giving."
3. "Classics in UK Universities: cui bono?" @AntigoneJournal
"In a world where students are encouraged to view their degree as a direct route to the job that will [pay off] their student loan, Classics degrees must sing for their supper in the sense of skills conferred."
"In a world where students are encouraged to view their degree as a direct route to the job that will [pay off] their student loan, Classics degrees must sing for their supper in the sense of skills conferred."
4. "Perhaps the Barriers to Entry for Creative Work Have Become Too Low" Freddie deBoer
"Michelangelo had to paint a ceiling in the Vatican to ensure his art would be seen by generations.
What if he could have shared his tossed-off drawings on Facebook and said, good enough?"
"Michelangelo had to paint a ceiling in the Vatican to ensure his art would be seen by generations.
What if he could have shared his tossed-off drawings on Facebook and said, good enough?"
5. "The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari" @dznarayanan
"Harari has seduced us with his storytelling, but a close look shows that he sacrifices science to sensationalism, often makes grave factual errors, and portrays what should be speculative as certain."
"Harari has seduced us with his storytelling, but a close look shows that he sacrifices science to sensationalism, often makes grave factual errors, and portrays what should be speculative as certain."
Many more, but I will keep it at five because five is a low enough number for you to copy-paste the essay's and author's name to Google and read these this week.
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— Complex concepts, explained simply
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