This week’s reading and listening (ending September 15 2024)

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Reading

• David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way (Herbert Lui’s blog): Wonderful short piece on the importance of sticking to principles
• She Said I Want Something That I Want (Already happened): Hanging out is underrated

Listening

• Deep Questions with Cal Newport: The 10 year rule
• Lex Friedman (Gregory Aldrete): The Roman Empire, its rise and fall
• Making Sense (Richard Dawkins): Sam Harris in conversation with Richard Dawkins

Watching

• Elon Musk Interview at All-In Summit: You don’t have to love Elon Musk. But his interviews are typically highly insightful and even funny. This one goes into particular detail on US debt and his plan to reign it in.

SB’s Tune of the Week

🎵 Never been to Spain — Waylon Jennings

SB’s Most Read Post of the Week

🏆 Zero Tolerance

Vilhelm Hammershøi’s “A Room in the Artist’s Home in Strandgade, Copenhagen, with the Artist’s Wife” (1901)