📚 #128: Earthquakes, Ambition, Truth & Petitions
📚 #128: Earthquakes, Ambition, Truth & Petitions
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#1 Earthquake Before & After
Pictures 20 years later from a major earthquake here in Taiwan
#2 Unapologetic Ambition
Kara Swisher on her ambition is pretty fascinating:
There have been a lot of people, mostly men in positions of power, telling me I had to wait, that I shouldn’t be so confident. And I was like, “What are you talking about? I’m the best you have.”
and on raising her sons:
I have two wonderful boys, and I spend a lot of time with them. I’m always like, “Don’t do your homework; it doesn’t matter. Do this other thing instead.” Their teachers hate me for it, but I’m like, “What? Is it not true?” We try to help our kids with what they want to do, but you’re certainly not going to see me bribing any colleges.
There’s something to be said about absolute certainty, I’m just not sure what it is
#3 Why Can’t We Agree On Truth?
What, then, has changed? The key thing is that the elites of government and the media have lost their monopoly over the provision of information, but retain their prominence in the public eye
#4 Agnes Callard on Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Sign Petitions
As a philosopher, I want my influence to be philosophical, which is to say, I want to bring people to believe only what they, by their own lights, can see to be justified; I don’t want them to believe something because (I am one of the) many people who think it.
#5 Opting For The Unknown Over The Sure Thing
A friend, Jonny, opts to stay on his “pathless path” vs, accept an enticing job:
This also enabled me to realise that some of the appeal of the role (despite being a wonderfully enticing offer) was that it would give me a get out of jail free card. A chance for both a regular pay-cheque and rapids-of-uncertainty life raft—a clear route deviating from the pathless path that I’ve been wandering along.
Related: Fascinating exchange with the author and Andrew Taggart earlier this month about how one might dis-identify as a worker:
I’ve had both experiences over the past several years:
Podcasts 🎙
Seth Godin & Brian Koppelman On Creativity
Fascinating discussion as always on The Moment Podcast
Chart Of The Week 📊
Prediction: New talking point in next couple years will be that incomes depend on how lucky you are to work at certain types of firms.
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