I've decided to standardise this a little bit.
The following sections will be there in every issue going forward:
- Tech, Science, and Math
- History, Culture, and Religion
- Everything else
with an assortment of things to read, listen, and watch in each of them.
Until I get to point where I need to get more granular.
Alternatively, I might just turn this into a regular newsletter with opinions around interesting links ( I don't really offer too many opinions right now )
So here goes.
Tech, Science, and Math
The Episode of Everything - Tim Ferris Show (#506)
A fascinating and long (3 hour) podcast between Tim Ferris and Balaji Srinivasan
The podcast covers pretty much every future related topic out there and took me a few days to get through.
A superb blog post by Cloudflare from around a year ago that I found while going through their blog, walks through the intricacies of the story behind the URL.
Notes on technology in the 2020s - Eli Dourado
A detailed post on what the near and far future of tech innovation could bring us.
History, Culture, and Religion
Debate : The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World
One of my favourite debates about religion from 5 years ago. Also my usual Hitchens plug with a bonus Stephen Fry.
In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol
I found this is in my unread bookmarks from last year, this article was published on Jan 6th 2020, and just over a year later this years storming of the U.S. Capital happened.
Uncertain, unpredictable, unseen events are only so to those who've never seen them I guess.
Everything else
I love reading advice on writing by writers I admire. paulg is one of the best.
I've been reading up on Geology in general and found this article from 2016 a simple but, insightful read on the topic of how the dinosaurs died.
It's something I thought I knew about, unsurprisingly I had a lot to learn.
From "learning to draw" to "acquiring a visual vocabulary"
Found this through the thread linked in the above post
Beautiful thread on (mis/pre)conceptions on "drawing" and some advice on "learning to draw" itself. Have to admit I'm now suddenly interested in going through this journey myself.
Thank you for reading
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Sainath