This week’s reading, listening and watching (ending April 14 2024)

Thank you for reading Soir Bleu this week! If you have any feedback or comments for me, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Reading

• Lunch with the FT with Michael Douglas (Financial Times)
• The myth of the second chance (Financial Times): life is “path dependent” and may not have a second chance in store
• 🇩🇪Bitcoin ist ein Stachel im Fleisch des Establishments (Neue Zürcher Zeitung): Mainstream media — and this is one of the best — is starting to get Bitcoin.
• Clearing the Paths (Bitromortac): The mathematics of path finding with a Bitcoin Lightning node implementation

Listening

• Joe Rogan Podcast — Paul Stamets: On the magic of mushroom
• The “What is money?” Show — George Gammon: Money, Velocity and Bitcoin’s Impact
• 🇩🇪 Hotel Matze — Ilka Hoffmann-Bisinger: Insightful podcast about relationships and couple’s therapy. I even wrote a post about it
• All In Podcast: Good discussion on the inflation dillemma

Watching

• Adam Neumann on CNBC — the fact that this man still gets airtime on financial television tells us we’re still in a bubble
• Graham Bensinger Show with RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines — get to know the only electable person on the US presidential election ballot

SB’s Tune of the Week

• A world so full of love — Shakey Graves

SB’s Most Read Post of the Week

🏆 Bottlenecks — why open relationships rarely work

Vincent van Gogh — Man Standing, Reading a Book (1882)