This video series on Suzanne Lupien just keeps on giving. The latest episode is about her half-century of spoon carving.
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Reminding myself after failure: Having An Opinion is not your task. Your task is small, local, centered on your family. Your task is to live in right relationship, work faithfully, and do what good you can. Use fewer and fewer words, until they become unnecessary.
So this stuff is crazy, obviously. But could it not be the case that we’re in a fad period and everyone will be slightly embarrassed by it in a few years? Don’t people mostly return to a sane baseline? That’s not to say it won’t cause real destruction, but does it seem likely to redefine humanity?
As your accountant, I don’t recommend a fifty-year mortgage.
Dumbing down my iPhone
There are a few signs that my iPhone is nearing the end of its life, so I’ve been thinking about the Light Phone lately. Today I was discussing it with Rachel and she suggested turning my iPhone into something like a Light Phone to see how it goes. I took her advice. Turns out, I didn’t end up with exactly a Light Phone equivalent, but it is drastically different than it was.
My worldview is more aesthetic than rational—and I’m fine with that, since no one is looking to me for answers about anything.
Adam Kotsko: “That time I unexpectedly stopped ruining my own life” I’ve found Kotsko’s writing helpful for many years now—but I was never a fan of his relentless sarcasm. I’m glad he’s getting over that. It’s depressing how many good, intelligent folks are ruining their lives with social media.
Reading this by Alan Jacobs brought back to mind a question that occurred to me as I was reading Kingsnorth: why haven’t we seen something like the Timber Wars or Luddite machine breaking over data centers? I’m sure the answer is complicated. I wonder if leftists aren’t as worried about Big Tech?
James Bridle points out that solar panels are getting cheap enough that they’re being used as fencing in places. I still worry about Michael Moore’s argument that renewable energy is just as resource intensive as fossil fuel energy. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Universally beloved IU football coach Curt Cignetti just signed a massive new contract, one clause of which stipulates that if universally hated IU president Pamela Whitten is not in her job, Cignetti’s buyout is cut in half. Keeping her job by holding the football team hostage. Classy.