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What I'm doing Now

By Justin G. on 24SEP18WED

What I’m reading

• Read the Duty and Education chapters of The Syntopicon. Education is interesting because it’s the first topic that isn’t a directly addressed in the books. It’s discussed, but like at a boundary layer, or an application of Stokes’ theorem, to the problem of understanding what is good education.
• Started reading Nexus by Harari. Reading it with a friend. Looking forward to the conversations.

What I’m doing

• Running.
• Hiking. But I’ll talk about that later.
• Blogging.

What I’m listening to

• Ezra Klein podcast about the debate.
• Ezra Klein podcast with Zadie Smith / transcript. So the weird thing is that her new book is about the Tichborne case, which is also the topic of one of the short stories I recently read by Borges.
• Search engine podcast about a documentary about The Sopranos. That sort of undersells it.
• Discarded Shadows by Tudor Acid. I really liked this.
• Awakening by Àbáse. Jazzy jazz.

What I’m cooking

• The already discussed risotto rosso.
• Bread.
• Big ol’ pot of spaghetti. Always excellent.
• Vanilla ice cream.
• Mushroom barley soup. Dang this was good.

What I’m watching

• Pokémon Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
  My first Pokémon anything. In my defense, we were child sitting.
• Finished Reservation Dogs. A+, all 3 seasons.
• Maigomika, the typhoon episode.
• Some Cesar Millan cozy tv.

Bringing these back online slowly.

• Ripper Street, series on Hulu. In progress.
• Severance, Apple+. In progress.
• The Bear, on Hulu. Finished season one.

What I’m playing

• NMS. Gone fishing.

Background

Things I am doing off and on.

Ongoing reading projects

These are books that I plan to take my time with. Maybe years.

• Complete Essays by Montaigne.
• The Syntopicon - So dense with ideas.
• Basic Economics by Sowell.
• Collected Fictions and Selected Non-fictions by Borges.

Email me your best good listens this week.