This week’s reading and listening (ending November 17 2024)

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Reading

• How universities became infantilised (The Spectator): A Cantabrigian aptly criticizing his former university and the academic system as a whole
• Biological Miracle (National Park Service): The extraordinary hibernation of frogs

Listening

• In Good Company (Mark Rowan): The CEO of Apollo on Private Market Investment Alpha and Risk Management
• Conversations with Tyler (Neal Stephenson): Sci-Fi Author Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft and American-Soviet Parallels
• Honestly with Bari Weiss (Peter Thiel): On Trump, Elon Musk and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites

Watching

• The profound idea behind Bitcoin: If you want to understand the profundity of Bitcoin and the tremendous impact it could have on our future, start with this 2 minute clip from economist Saifedean Ammous

SB’s Tune of the Week

🎵 Stormy Weather — Etta James

SB’s Most Read Post of the Week

🏆 Apprentice yourself to your own reluctance

Carl Spitzweg’s “The Poor Poet” (1837)