Here are some articles you should be reading!
I came across some fascinating articles during the week. Here's what I think you should be reading.
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This week felt brief. I’d been planning on writing a post regarding… I’ll keep that a secret for now. Anyway, I felt I had a bit more to write on it.
So this week I decided to do something a little bit different.
Throughout the week I read a lot of fascinating articles. Many of these are socially relevant and illuminate the state of our societies today.
After previously going through the newsletters of people like James Clear and Tim Ferris, I realized newsletters could be brief.
As such, I wanted to share with you some articles I found truly insightful:
What Does Boredom Do to Us—and for Us? : In this essay, Margaret Talbot explores the various ways boredom may affect a person. As the pandemic raged on in certain places, many of us were forced to reside within our homes and there was bound to be an increase in boredom. I had always been of the belief that boredom increases creativity. It had after all been said that Isaac Newton did discover calculus during a pandemic. As such, I wondered why we hadn’t seen such groundbreaking discoveries within the entirety of the pandemic. After all, a lot of people were bound to be locked at home. If there were any discoveries made by an individual, I was sure to have missed it. Margaret touches on the various perspectives on boredom by referencing many of the minds studying the subject, as well as some old philosophers. Read here.
How a Powerful Nissan Insider Tore Apart Carlos Ghosn’s Legacy: This year had been so crazy, I almost forgot the insanity that was the Carlos Ghosn saga. Very late last year there was supposedly evidence of Carlos Ghosn (former chairman of Nissan and Mitsubishi) involved in financial misconduct. This would eventually lead to the man being called for trial in Japan. That trial would not take place as the man had fled to Lebanon making use of “transporters”. The entirety of the story was surreal. Reed Stevenson details the way in which one particular man plotted to overthrow Carlos. Read here.
Don't Steal This Book: Taibbi is a personal inspiration. The man’s writing voice is unique. One feels thoroughly immersed in the nature of his writing. Recently(just two days ago) he wrote a review on the book “In Defense of Looting”; a book that justifies looting as morally virtuous. Taibbi takes apart the book as nothing more than the wishful fantasies of a person who has spent too much time online and is unwilling to provoke the sort of violence she claims is morally sound. Read here.
4 secrets to a newsletter people will pay to read, from the cofounder of popular content platform Substack: Just last week, I wrote an article on the origins of newsletters as well as the singular characteristics that set the best of them apart. I’m still sort of a newbie to this whole thing. This article helped me emphasize the core weaknesses of my newsletter as well as the ways in which I had yet to improve. Read here.
This Researcher Predicted 2020 Would Be Mayhem. Here’s What He Says May Come Next: I saw the term Elite Overproduction pop up on my Twitter feed multiple times and wanted to find more about it. The first time I came across the term was in Andrew Yang’s The War On Normal People. In it, he was referencing Peter Turchin’s book Age of Discord. I had vaguely remembered that Yang made mention of several things that could result in civil disorder. I would come to find out that Turchin had made a prediction in 2010 that in 2020, the US would experience the extreme civil disorder. In this brief interview, Turchin lays out what he believes could happen next. Read here.
If you have any article recommendations of your own, feel free to leave them in the comment section.
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