My god people… I forgot to get bourbon last night. How do I do @NY_Comic_Con day one without it??? #mlp#comics#nycc
In the meantime, here’s Velma Sparkle… Twilight Dinkley…
Uber driver this morning: mid-50s, former middle-management tech exec. laid off from Intuit five years ago.
Thousands of resumes later, he quit trying because it’s pointless when they can hire an H-1B for a fraction of the cost. Also ended up divorced after four kids & 25-year marriage. Not sure the DC types fully understand the simmering anger out there.
Here's a practical guide on how to immerse yourself in books again:
(Guide is from a Substack writer called PolyMathInvestor, credit to him and check out his work)
I feel that this piece by Guattari is one of those essays that becomes more and more interesting the deeper you go. Most intriguing is his mistrust of representation itself, which enables parties, analysts and intellectuals to speak for people in a way that reduces their very++
Short but great reads:
- Self reliance (~45 pages)
- The stranger (~120 pages)
- Fear and trembling (~160 pages)
- The generous gambler (~5 pages)
- Notes from underground (~160 pages)
- The myth of Sisyphus (~140 pages)
They may be short but the ROI is insane
Valid list. I'd add:
- The Metamorphosis (~70 pages)
- On the Shortness of Life (~60 pages)
- Man's Search for Meaning (~160 pages)
- Meditations (~150 pages)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich (~86 pages)
High return, zero fluff.