December 2024
Books, articles, podcasts, and thoughts throughout the month
Books read:
📖 Broken Stars, a contemporary Chinese science fiction anthology translated by
📖 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
📖 Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
Posts published:
December 31
📰 Building a Picture, Part 2 by
Studies or Études
🎧 The Resource Vector - Beautiful/Anonymous
Occupational therapists are more burnt out from systems than clients
I can say for me the burnout has never been about the clients. The things that burn me out are systems. Things that burn me out are arguing with insurance companies or trying to help somebody access what I know are services they deserve through our healthcare system.
One hour to talk about anything apart from school, and then 2 hours to do something with joy
Something I'm really proud of is that. A year, I put some strange topic on the syllabus for the lecture for the day, but then I surprise them and I say, hey, one in four people have been touched by suicide and this is a very stressful Time in your life. And I know that it's very hard. And so I'm going to give you a gift. And the gift is one hour of talking to your peers about anything that's not school, and then two hours of time to go do something with joy. And we hang out for an hour, and everybody just talks and connects, and then I give them time off, and I say, you are forbidden from doing schoolwork. You may only go do something with joy. And I just, I'm, you know, like, I don't know, I feel like everybody can do something to help others know they're important. So that's my little thing. And I'm proud of it.
When talking to a parent about a child’s potential disorder, ask if they’re worried too
Usually what I say is there's there's some things here that I'm worried about. And I'm wondering if you're worried about them too. And 99% of the time, a parent will then pour their heart out and say, yes, they're worried about that too. So almost always the parent has had suspicions.
A parent in denial is asking the right hard questions
I really enjoy a parent who's in denial because to me, a parent who's in denial is someone who's asking hard questions and should be asking hard questions.
The world needs kids who are different
The world needs people to think in 3D. In a world of trains and flowers, this kid is thinking in 3D, and the world needs that. They don't need somebody who does school right. They need somebody who thinks like this. And it kind of changed everything for me. And so I feel that way about, you know, the kids I work with, like, I don't know what your future holds. But I believe that the world means your brain exactly as it is.
People used to die of allergies
And they ended up learning to say, tell me this, to, you know, people who were over 75, 75, I would say, was there ever a time when you were a kid, where some other kid just died, and nobody Knew why? And every time they yes and I said that was an allergy.
The current world is a casino
When I think like, okay, it definitely, yeah ADHD is real and people live with it and stuff, but I also see that like, our world is overstimulating, right? Like I see, you know, little kids in Target, and if you kind of like step back and you look at grocery stores in Target, they're full of advertising and color and noises over the loudspeaker And beeping of the machines. And of course, our brains are struggling with that. So you can, I mean, I guess how we understand it is to give these things labels, but it's not the people, it's the world. It's the demands that we're putting on ourselves that are making us struggle. And when our whole educational system, you know, was built to make good factory workers, I mean, at this point, I'm like, gay for the people who buy the system, who don't want to be good Factory workers. And yep, I know you're gonna put labels on that. But again, the world needs people who think differently. We're not gonna get through thinking the same. / Chris: You are right that we have in many areas just built day -to -day life into almost a casino.
Kids used to learn to draw the danger line through hard experiences
How many times was I in situations as a kid where there was not an adult within sniffing distance and somebody was about to do something where they could have gotten hurt or killed, and It took one of the other kids, whether that me or not took one of the other kids to go. Actually what we're doing is stupid and we need to chill out
Instead of worrying about kids’ whereabouts, parents should instead ask if kids are happy, scared, overwhelmed
I feel like people are worrying about the long wrong thing in their kids. Right? I feel like they're very worried about, I need to know where you are 24 seven. But I feel like the deeper question is, you know, are you happy? Are you scared? Are you overwhelmed? Because I think it's hard to be a kid right now.
December 30
🎧 The Blue Flame Thinkers of 2024 by Prof G Pod
Human beings have never had the power to multiply their minds the way that AI is going to be able to allow them to do. / What does that do to our conceptions of who we are as human beings?
🎧 10 Things I Am Leaving Behind in 2024 to Make Space for 2025 - On Purpose with Jay Shetty
We all have a lot to do. We all have a lot going on. But actually, are you just very organized? Are you prioritized? Are you being effective? Are you being productive? What's the language that you want to use that creates a healthy relationship with yourself and the idea of being busy?
December 28
🎧 Ask Us Anything — Forgiveness, the Manosphere, Parasocial Relationships & More - Prof G Markets
Ed’s research process before each ep
before every podcast, about 24 hours before the podcast, we all meet as a team and we have a team of analysts and producers. And it's about seven of us who get on this call and we talk about what we want to talk about. And then we decide with Scott, you know, these are going to be the stories. And I spend the next 24 hours just obsessively researching all of those topics. I start with Google. I use AI as well. I use a finance tool called Rogo. I use ChatGPT. I think if there's anything I've learned about the research process from doing this podcast, it's the most important thing, and I think this applies to all research, is trying to figure Out what is the so what of anything that you're reading. And that's kind of hard to do these days because there are just millions of different articles about all of these events, and they're filled with really, really useless information. And that's especially true in earnings reports and 10Qs. You know, I'll read like an entire 10Q in preparation, and I'll learn maybe one thing from it. But that's sort of what you have to do. To me, it's all about synthesizing. Okay, what is the, why do I actually care about this? Like, what is the takeaway from this gigantic document that is filled with all these numbers and a lot of bullshit? What could affect my life or what could interesting to someone else's life what is the so what here and we've got to give a big shout out to mia silverio and jessica lang too who inform basically Everything we do there are researchers yeah and they do a lot at this company but they're very focused on prof g market so thank you to both of them.
If you're in something that seems to be going fairly well, think, how can I be in the top 1% if not the top 0.1%
December 26
🎧 Life at 1.5x Speed - Beautiful/Anonymous
If I think about a client, when I'm in the shower, like that most personal time, if I'm thinking, and that sounds gross and creepy and I don't mean it in that way, but like if I'm thinking About work while I'm in the shower or a person while I'm in the shower, then I need to do some work. So I need to talk to a counselor or I need to debrief with my supervisor or my team or something like that. I don't. I try really hard.
December 24
🎧 The Best (And Most Overrated) Books of 2024 - On with Kara Swisher
with Dwight Garner (NYT) and
(WaPo)Dwight reads Percival Everett’s novel “James”
Becca: I will probably get [my partner] a copy of Paradise Lost because we will probably read that aloud together every day in the new year.
Dwight: Salman Rushdie's memoir about being attacked on stage by an Islamic militant in 2022. Book is called Knife.
Dwight: I think my third favorite was probably Rachel Kushner's novel, Creation Lake. This is about a female spy for hire in rural France.
Dwight: Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake. Kushner has a style, a vibe. She's this generation's Robert Stone of People, What It Was Like to Read Him, a bit of Dennis Johnson in her work. It feels built to last to me.
Dwight Garner mentions Sally Rooney's new novel, "Intermezzo", as a notable book.
Becca: Another book we disagree about that was probably my favorite book of the year was Small Rain by Garth Greenwell.
Becca: And I have to say, I think Small Rain is going to be an enduring classic.
Becca: There's a novel by a novelist named Mark Haber called Lesser Ruins that I think is an absolutely fabulous book.
Becca: I love the book The Rebel's Clinic by Adam Schatz, which is a biography of the philosopher and activist Frantz Fanon.
Book that changed my mind - Becca: Maybe When the Clock Broke by John Gans a little bit, in the sense that I kind of thought that the Trump phenomenon was unprecedented in American politics. But that really is just because I didn't have a great memory of the political turmoil in the early 90s because I was three years old at that time. But so John Gans, I mean, I think he's close to the same age as I am, but he does a really good job of examining kind of antecedents.
Becca: When the clock broke this book by John Gans that I keep mentioning, you know, I bet people will read this book in 50 years as a way of understanding what led to Trumpism.
Dwight: The bibliography this year that Verso printed is a biography of the radical journalist Claude Coburn written by one of his sons, Patrick Coburn. And it sort of took us back to the period in the 40s and 50s and early 60s when Coburn was working. And it sort of corrected a lot of errors in the journalism of that period. And it showed the way he almost launched a certain kind of investigative and opinion type of journalism. And I didn't realize how what an important player Coburn was in terms of influencing people like Orwell. I didn't realize how sort of fundamental he was.
Dwight: There's a wonderful Mexican novelist named Alvaro Enrique, who published a novelist here called You Dreamed of Empires, which is this great speckled bird of a novel, kind of hallucinatory, About the Spanish conquistador Cortez arriving in Mexico City in 1519. And you feel it's a Trump-like moment. It's the barbarians at the gate. And to read this novelist pull this collision of cultures apart really resonated with what was happening in the culture to me.
Becca: I think it's a mixed blessing. I mean, something scandalous that happened was when Jonathan Franzen's book, The Corrections, was selected for Oprah's Book Club. He famously, notoriously said that he didn't want that to be the case. I think kind of implying that Oprah's book club was middle brow. And when I told my parents-in that I might do the same, they were absolutely scandalized. I think now that I'm actually trying to sell a book, I would reconsider. Yeah. Raise your spoon. Where are you? Go ahead. I want people to read my book. I mean, I think on the one hand, it makes sense to kind of have some defeasible skepticism about extremely popular products.
Becca: A book that I really love is a book called The Politics of Cultural Despair by the Columbia historian Fritz Stern. It's an intellectual history of the kind of, I guess, intellectual ancestors of Nazism. It's about a bunch of conservative German cultural critics in the century leading up to the rise of Nazism. And I think it has a lot of light to shed on the Trump phenomenon now. There's some striking similarities between the kind of pseudo-intellectual buttress of Nazism and the kind of things that you see conservative intellectuals saying today.
Kara: Interesting. I would recommend Tim Snyder's book On Tyranny this year.
Dwight: This year, I'm reading Boswell, Boswell in London, you know, the great biographer. You're going there. Well, it's the perfect bathroom read for me. It's just every page is just wonderful and brilliant about not just life, but ideas. And the combination, the high and low of them, the intellectual jousting combined with, you know, his walks and what he had for dinner, and it's just the perfect combination for me of / Kara Swisher: Stuff to read on the side.
Kara: I've been reading a lot of Kafka lately, and that's because I think it's about loneliness, a lot of his books. So I don't know why. They affected me when I was a kid, and I was trying to see. That's why I went back and reread Hillbillyology and realized what an idiot I was.
Dwight: Lucy Sante's memoir of transitioning later in life. Lucy, of course, used to publish another name. She's now added a Y to her name. She's transitioned. And it's very moving, her stories about transitioning in her 60s while teaching at Bard and how her friends reacted, how her students reacted. It's a wonderful book. And I think that might have a chance of living in the culture for quite a while.
Recommendation for children, aged 5 to 15:
Dwight: Are they ready for Kurt Vonnegut, do you think? Because some of those books meant a ton to me when I was that age.
Becca: For a slightly older child, maybe not 15, I think a really great alternative to J.K. Rowling, just a better writer, is Diana Wayne Jones. I was obsessed with the book Howl's Moving Castle to the point where I still have, like, the opening lines memorized. Tell me. Go ahead. In the land of Ingrid, where such things as cloaks of invisibility and seven-league boots actually exist, it was considered a great misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
December 22
🎧 The Most Thoughtful Caller - Beautiful/Anonymous
You should give an apology not to try to fix things Not even to make that person feel better and definitely not to make yourself feel better When you give a genuine apology is because the Person deserves to hear it and then they can do whatever they want with it Isn't a lot you can't have an obligation when you have an apology. You can't expect something that Accepted You know you give an apology not to try to fix it because they're old one
🎧 Tech Layoffs, Midlife Investing, and Parenthood in the Age of AI - Pivot
Why having kids is worth it despite “bad times”
Scott: On the whole, no one is entirely certain what's going to happen in the future to what generation, but on the whole, the line is up and to the right. Your kids are most likely going to have the best lives on average of any kids ever born ever except the second kid you have. Things generally get better. They're going to enjoy hot showers. They're going to enjoy civil rights. They're going to enjoy Spotify. They're going to enjoy equal rights. They're going to enjoy more democracy. They're going to enjoy more agency as young people. They're going to have their parents around longer because you'll live longer.
Scott: Grief and anxiety are the receipts for love and joy. There is no risk-free return.
December 21
You're not Steve Jobs. You know why? Because Steve Jobs would have never been caught dead reading an article on the internet about how to be more like Steve Jobs."
A lifestyle is not a static outcome but a dynamic thing that evolves and is being continuously recreated.
🎧 How to Make the Most of Your Money in the New Year — Ft. Morgan Housel - Prof G Pod
Morgan Housel invests every non-standard windfall - bonuses etc
Any kind of non-standard windfall that I've had in my career, I've invested. And I think the reason that I invested is because I know that if I spend this, it's going to become part of my expectations that I also need to spend this next month and the month after and the month after, and it's not going to be there. And you can make a ton of money and be disappointed if you expect all of it.
What matters is not visible
When you really constantly remind yourself that I can see your car. I can see your house. I can see your clothes. I can see your jewelry. I cannot see your relationship with your spouse. I cannot see your relationship with your children. I cannot see your mental health. And that's what actually makes a difference.
Warren Buffet (per his biography, The Snowball) didn’t have a perfect personal life
The Snowball, which is Warren Buffett's biography, kind of the most elaborate biography on him, goes into extreme detail about things that people have known for a while. Is that his personal, Warren Buffett's personal life has not been perfect by any means whatsoever. That's a polite way to put it. There have been times where it's been miserable. And that was really important for me as someone who has looked up to him and admired him for decades to realize like, look, I can see his investing returns. I can see his ranking on the Forbes 400 list. I cannot see his relationship with his children. But inside his head, things like that probably matter way more than his ranking on the on the forbes list so what is visible tends to be the things that matter way less than things are are Invisible so the guy in the ferrari yes he's got a cool car yes i i might be envious of that car there are almost certainly things going on in his life that i cannot see that if i had a full picture Of his life
December 19
🎧 How Regret Motivates Us — With Daniel Pink - Prof G Pod
For complex, long-term workplace tasks, pay people well and offer:
Autonomy: Control over what, how, when, and where they work.
Mastery: Opportunities to improve at something meaningful.
Purpose: A clear understanding of their contribution and its positive impact.
🎧 87: The Perfect Lesbian Sleepover - Staying Up with Cammie and
Taryn’s current fave pants: men's pants from Abercrombie, specifically baggy carpenter jeans.
Taryn book rec: Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter by Eddie Shleyner
Board game rec: Quacks of Quedlinburg
Taryn Arnold
A game called quacks of quiddlinburg oh gosh i'm looking at it now it's just off camera it's very sexy beautiful game it sounds so corny it sounds it's like we love a board game in my family And uh my friends also love a good board game and a friend brought this game to us and said i know this sounds fucking so stupid it's called quacks of quittlenburg and you make potions and I promise if you play it once you will love it and that is exactly what happened we absolutely fucking loved it we've taught friends we talk about it very often it's very like if you like It tonight maybe we're playing it tonight we're having some friends over to play quacks just a quacks we call it quacks um it's very like you know settlers of catan but shorter and uh more
Cammie Scott
Dynamic i would say it sounds complicated at first but it's really not yeah like you play one time and you're like i'm locked in so if you come from a game fam if you have anyone that would Love a game
📰 What Do You Want? by Calvin Rosser - h/t
As soon as you can, expose yourself to as many new things as possible. Travel. Change jobs. Date around. Read voraciously. Interview old people. Try new hobbies. Follow the whims of your heart. People may call you non-commital and directionless during your exploratory period. Ignore them. What they don’t understand and what you won’t understand until later is that meandering for enough time is the only reliable way to create a higher-resolution map of your desires.
The truth is that no path has it all, and everything worth having comes with a cost. Time freedom requires uncertainty. Entrepreneurship requires risk. Marriage requires tough conversations.
When making big life decisions like where to live, what to do for work, and who to spend your life with, you need to understand the trade that you’re making with each path.
Even if you try more stuff, understand tradeoffs, and find good counsel, you will likely never figure out exactly what you want or how to get it. There are at least two reasons for that. The first reason is that you are an unreliable madman. You are not the rational, grounded character that you want to be. You are wild and dynamic, and so are your desires.
The second reason is that dragons await you. Right when you think that everything in your life has finally come together, a ten-headed, fire-breathing dragon will block your path and send you running in another direction.
Job changes are consequential, but they are not life-or-death decisions.
The reality is that every job change comes with some set of tradeoffs. You may make less money, lose prestige, or give up perks you enjoy. But in doing so, you may create space for new paths with more of what you want and value. You won’t know for sure until you get clear on what you want or try something different and see how it goes. Even then, you can never quite predict how the future will unfold.
📰 Gochujang and Carrot Soup and the Anatomy of Friendship by The Korean Vegan
On riding her memoir:
I must confess that I don't like the girl in the journals I've been reviewing. I may even hate her, at times. She is selfish, immature, and colossally stupid in certain situations. She is so, so weak. Were I to answer the question, *who are you in these stories?*, I'd have to say, "An idiot." I know I sound uncharitable, especially given that the person in these diaries is 14, 15, 25, 26 years old. But the feeling--the visceral loathing--I had while reading my own writings... it was so deep, so thorny, it made me want to hide from myself. Which, let me tell you, is not ideal when you're trying to write a memoir! I shared some of my deepest fears, the things I hated *most* about my story, with Anthony. These are things I've never said out loud, even to my very expensive therapist. He didn't flinch. In fact, I daresay we loved each other more at the end of all my ugly revelations.
Honesty is profoundly difficult, partly because we spend so much effort burying hard truths, those things we cannot face in ourselves.
December 18
📰 I Have a Few Questions by Morgan Housel
Who has the right answers but I ignore because they’re not articulate?
What is a problem that I think only applies to other countries/industries/careers that will eventually hit me?
How would my views change if I had 10,000 years of good, apples-to-apples data on things I only have recent history to study?
Which of my current views would change if my incentives were different?
How do I know if I’m being patient (a skill) or stubborn (a flaw)? They’re hard to tell apart without hindsight.
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December 16
🎧 86: 2024 Trends and 2025 Predictions - Staying Up with Cammie and
The lipstick effect
Even in a recession or hard times, people will spend money on small, it doesn't have to specifically be lipstick, but it's like small luxuries where a lipstick even if it's a luxury brand might be max like 20-25 dollars so you can still afford it okay but you feel like oh I still have like luxury
📰 The Habit Every Successful Person Commits To by Jay Shetty
a list of my favorite books I read this year
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choice by Annie Duke.
From the introduction: *“There are only 2 things that determine how your life turns out: luck and the quality of your decisions. You have control over only one of those 2 things.”* As a former professional poker player, Annie knows a thing or two about the delicate balance of luck and decision-making. What I love about her work is that Annie’s taken this huge skill that impacts us on a daily basis, and broken it down into easy-to-understand concepts that will boost your decision-making skills across all arenas in your life.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
I’m a huge fan of Jonathan, and loved chatting with him on my podcast about his newest book *The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness*. Here, he and Greg have presented a really compelling case about the underlying beliefs that are central to our current society of discord. This is a powerful read for anybody who, like me, wants more unity in this world. (View Highlight)
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Did you know that there is a whole world of “mental athletes?” I’m serious. People who train to compete in memory competitions, also known as “mental sport.” Now, if you’re like me, you’ve been at your fair share of parties and the moment somebody mentions their name it flies out your other ear. Joshua’s epic bestseller lays out the concepts that the memory pros use to remember everything.
Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen Hardcover by Jon M. Chu
Fans of Wicked, or Crazy Rich Asians, will know the legendary director Jon Chu. Here is his memoir that details his struggles coming into his own in Hollywood. I relate to his story, being the child of immigrants growing up in the UK, trying to forge my path in an industry filled with people who don’t look like me.
JoyFull: Cook Effortlessly, Eat Freely, Live Radiantly (A Cookbook) by Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
Of course, how could I not mention my lovely wife’s brand-new cookbook! People who know me know I can’t cook to save my life – but Radhi’s approach is practical and the food she makes is just absolutely outstanding. Beyond tasting good, however, it’s all food that makes you feel good. Which is what all the food we eat should do.
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
I love this book, and I think it’s what so many of us need right now. Our society has an obsession with getting things done, and doing it quickly. And that leads so many of us to either make terrible mistakes, or get burnt out – or both. Cal’s groundbreaking work challenges the modern concept of productivity in a way I think is essential for all of us.
You’ll never conquer your booklist through willpower alone. Find what you’re passionate about. What you’re excited to learn about, talk about, listen to on the way to work.
Novelist Ernest Hemingway on acting with confidence while living with humility: "Be humble after but not during the action."
📰 I’m Feeling a Bit Lost After Hitting 6M Subscribers by Ali Abdaal
Whenever I’m feeling a bit down about work (which seems to happen about every quarter for the past several years), I’ve started asking myself: “Am I feeling bad because I’m losing at a finite game? Or is it because I’ve lost sight of the infinite game I’m trying to play?”
📰 Book Club FAQs via Roxane Gay
What will the Audacious Book Club read in 2025?
I’m glad you asked. We’ve made some of next year’s choices and here’s what they are:
January: Private Rites by Julia Armfield
February: Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
March: Back After This by Linda Holmes
April: The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
May: My Documents by Kevin Nguyen
June: Marsha by Tourmaline
July: The Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
August: TBD
September: Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Resting Bitch Face by Taylor Byas
📰 A Tale of Service and Sacrifice by
this is the reason modern people are starving for meaning and, despite their addiction to TED talks, their perfected mudras or their polished mantras, it cannot be found.
Meaning, purpose, fulfillment, worthiness, whatever you want to call it, is simply not found solely within the self. It is not within, but without.
📰 Gamelan 2025 Finale by
in a tumpeng dish, there is this institutionalized way of cutting the rice that emulates the western tradition of cutting birthday cakes - you cut the top and give it to the most important person, especially in events - when in tradition, the top of the tumpeng resembles god and you’re supposed to carve the rice and eat them with the accoutrements until the top finally is brought down to the rest of the rice - a symbol of god returning blessings to the people.
December 14
🎧 Internet’s Luigi Obsession, Biden Pardons, and Guest R.J. Cutler - Pivot Pod
Are you in the midst of a period in your life where you could engage in a lifestyle arbitrage? And my three favorite lifestyle arbitrages, which is a fancy way of saying moving to a lower cost place, are Mexico City, which is still inexpensive and has an amazing art and food scene. Madrid, which is like the best of Europe at 60 to 80 percent of the price of Munich or London. Also, if you're really blessed with the ability to conduct remote work, I think Cape Town offers an extraordinary quality of life, especially if you can figure out a way to make money In dollars because of the weakness of the rand.
R.J. Cutler recommends two documentaries:
1. Frida: A beautiful film about Frida Kahlo directed by Carla Gutierrez.
2. Sugarcane: A heartbreaking film about the abuses of Native American children at Catholic church-run boarding schools, made by Julian Brave, Noyce Cat and Emily Cassie.
December 13
🎧 Why Didn't Anyone Tell Us About Wicked? - Staying up with Cammie and
When starting a new job.. Best advice i could come up with in this moment is that one you have to be really curious like be overly curious and try to download as much information as possible i know downloading information Is such a like lame cheap stupid term but like you should think of yourself as like a blank slate hard drive that like needs to basically be able to move in this company in a couple weeks And so the first few weeks should be like drinking from the water hose with information as much as you can trying to learn everything you can from like meetings get as many documents as You can that like talk about different processes or um like brand history like that kind of stuff yeah um so part one is download as much as you can and part two is like you schmooze the fuck Out of the people that work there like yeah especially the people on your team um but if you have time for the people on the peripheral teams it's also a good idea um and by schmooze i don't Mean like you don't have to go take them to dinner but um do a 10 minute zoom call and just be like hey you literally just message them or text them or whatever hey just started here i'm doing X y and z would love to say hi and just learn about your role here yeah do you have 10 minutes this week um 30 minutes stresses people out yeah that's too much 15 can even be too much for folks So i love a 10 minute and if it goes to 15 then it's like oh that was such a great call but really it was like so short yeah um yeah it's like oh my god they were amazing i could talk longer yeah
Cammie Scott
Or it's like oh we didn't get to finish let's touch base again yeah that's so nice um love that and then that's just you're starting to you know plant your little plant your little seed
Taryn Arnold
Around town
🎧 Sports Betting, Challenges Facing Young Men, and the Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried — With Michael Lewis - Prof G Pod
I never thought I want to be that person. I always just wanted to be me. It's like the best me. And there were things that made me feel the best me. And writing was one of them. Writing was the big one. And I just thought, I've got to do this. So not trying to be someone else would be the, would be one of the first things I would say. Another thing that led me to like lots of the good things that have happened in my life, it's related. It's like not paying attention to what you're supposed to be paying attention to, like what everybody else is paying attention to. If everybody else is paying attention to it, it doesn't need your attention kind of thing. What needs your attention is the thing that you're interested in that no one's paying attention to and no one encourages you to pay attention to. Like your FTX investment. It's like, oh, there's something here and I really care about it. And if you can find that and nobody else is there, that seems like a lonely place, but it's the golden place. And you've got to like lean into that rather than lean out of it. Like learn to recognize that moment where, God, I love doing this thing. No one is saying I should be doing this thing. No one else is doing this thing, but I love it. Go with it. Go with that feeling. It's great for an investor. It's great for a writer. But I think it's great beyond that. It's sort of like you're arbitraging your personality against the world, that you are finding where you are special in the level of interest you have in something. And that's when I find my subject matters are the most exciting to me.
🎧 The Market’s Biggest Risks and Opportunities in 2025 — Ft. Tom Lee - Prof G Markets
If you are tracking in your 40s and 50s in the agency world, then just ride it out. And these are client-driven businesses. You still do need creative. If you're in your 20s or 30s, you not only don't want to be in the ad-supported services business, you don't want to be in the ad-supported media business on the client side. Look at all the biggest companies that have made tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in value. They're not brand-driven. They're innovation or supply chain.
Like the guy working at IPG, who's like 25 years old and just starting his in advertising, you say don't work at IPG. I agree with you. Where should he work? Anywhere else. Go to Google, go to Meta, and work in the marketing specialist.
Scott Galloway
Yeah, get into the business of data-driven and platform-driven customer acquisition or get on the client side where you're focused on using these new platforms to increase customer Acquisition or customer retention.
🎧 The UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting, Amazon Takes on Nvidia, & 12 Days of OpenAI - Prof G Markets
The main takeaway for me is that I think that companies should be thinking about their earnings and their product launches less as just press releases and announcements, but more as Content. Like ultimately that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to produce content in the same way that we're trying to produce content on this podcast that is engaging and that gets people excited and that gets people interested. And you're not going to do that with just a simple press release. The way you're going to do that is with videos and with podcasts.
December 12
Pivot does about seven or eight million a year. It'll do 10 this year. By the way, I talk about money. I think it's an attempt to keep poor people down when people are making a lot of money don't talk about money. I want people to understand business. I want them to understand exactly what's going on. Prop G does less. Prop G does around five or six million, but it's growing faster. It's growing 40% a year. Those are not big businesses. Raging Moderates will probably do, I don't know, we'll see. It'll probably do one to two million next year as we get going, get our feet under us. These are small businesses, except they're ridiculously fucking profitable once you get to a certain point. This podcast has a producer, an associate producer, a tech person, and a sound engineer. And we have some analysts supporting some of the data. But okay, what are those costs, right? Half a million to a million bucks a year if you have really talented young people who you overpay, see about profiting media. But this is, you know, once you get to a half a million or a million in revenue, it's all gross margin. It's all profit. So these things can be massively profitable once you get to a certain point. What are those costs, right? Half a million to a million bucks a year if you have really talented young people who you overpay, see about profiting media. But this is, you know, once you get to a half a million or a million in revenue, it's all gross margin. It's all profit. So these things can be massively profitable once you get to a certain point.
To succeed in podcasting:
1. Find a niche and dominate it.
2. Focus on high-quality production and guest selection.
3. Adapt to the changing landscape; YouTube is becoming the primary distribution platform, so prioritize video.
As it relates to you, advice, the specific crowds out there general, you want to go very niche, very niche, right? You want to own something, absolutely own it. Two, you want to Mr. Beast it. Every week, what could we do with the sound, sound effects, production, editing? I think less is more. I'm always a fan of cutting more. Who could we bring in? What better guests could we find? And then the kind of next generation of podcasting is probably the reshuffling. There's going to be a reshuffling of the deck, if you will. Podcasting was initially kind of some semi-famous people who did interviews, and then it went to people who are more talented, bringing different content and information. The interview format, I think, is declining a little bit. Then there was a big trend around really highly produced podcasts, serial and crime podcasts. The problem with those is they're expensive to produce. Think the next kind of generation or the next reshuffling of the podcast stack is going to happen because of the following trend, YouTube. And that is, if you don't get as many views on YouTube as you get downloads, you're no longer going to be a top 100 podcaster. The new distribution medium for podcasts isn't Spotify or Apple, it's actually YouTube. And now people are spending or more people are watching podcasts on YouTube than they are listening to them. So you need to up your video game.
🎧 TikTok Ban Looms, Trump's AI and Crypto Czar, and Guest Vivian Tu - Pivot Pod
new ad recs
Kara Swisher
Did you see the AI ad that Coke did? Just curious.
Scott Galloway
That was good. But even better, the ad that Apple just did.
Vivian’s asset allocation rec
With terms of like asset allocations, what I typically recommend is you take your age and you round to the nearest tens. So tens, twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, and then you actually subtract by 10 again. So this person is in their 50s. We are minusing that number by 10 again, so 40, and that is what percentage of your portfolio roughly should be in fixed income assets, whereas the rest of it should actually still be In the public equity market. So stocks in particular, I recommend broader index funds through ETFs with the lowest possible expense ratios. The reason I say this is just because now that they're in their 50s, even if they are feeling a little behind, they don't have to feel like the world is ending. Yes, they want to do some sort of preservation of their existing wealth so that they're going to have money to draw from in their later years. But also still having more than 50% of your portfolio in the public equity markets allows you to participate in that continued growth. Odds are good the second they turn 59 and a half, they're not going to need every single dollar in that account. So this just gives them a chance to have a portion of their money continuing to work pretty hard while another portion of it is still set aside because they are getting closer to retirement. And the other big hot tip that I would encourage them to think about is catch-up contributions. For everybody who is above 50 and starting to get a little closer to retirement, you can actually contribute more to your individual retirement accounts, whether they be of the traditional Or Roth variety or your employer-sponsored accounts than the average person could that's younger than that. And it just gives them a chance to literally catch up.
This election we all voted against our best interest
This election, generally speaking, was both the people who are voting for both parties. We voted against our own best interests. Only one specific set, though, knew that we were doing that. Right. Like, so you're talking about these coastal elites voting blue, realistically having more money, being closer to that. You know, and frankly, Scott's probably right. 50 percent is incredibly generous. The top 10, top 1 percent of folks, a lot of them voted for Kamala Harris well against their own best interests, knowing that we would be taxed more. I, you know, transparently voted that way. But I have family and relatives who voted the opposite side, and they're trying to tell me that they are going to benefit. And I said, no, people like me, people who a huge portion of my annual like monies comes from investments, not just my labor. I am going to benefit, not you. And I think it's a it's a hard conversation to have, especially around the Thanksgiving dinner table with family, with friends. But like, I think we all voted against our best interests, financially speaking.
The “Your Rich BFF” brand took Wall Street work ethic to build up
This is one of the things that I'm most proud about myself is that I took my Wall Street work ethic where I cut my teeth and put it into this, into Your Rich BFF. So when people were getting tired and saying, I don't feel like making a video today, I kept churning them out.
Vivian Tu’s income streams
I've diversified my business so that, you know, still the lion's share of my income comes from branded partnerships. I get paid directly from platforms for creating content that gets a lot of eyeballs. I get paid to speak. I got a book advance for my first book, just signed for my second one. My podcast itself has ads on it. And then in addition to that, currently working on a tech platform that is going to be direct to consumer. That's still not ready to be rolled out yet, but I did want to tease that here. So there's just a lot of ways that I make money.
Kara Swisher
To help people with financial tools and things like that.
Vivian Tu’s advice: Find your ikigai, but in part, I really encourage people to prioritize the, can I make money of this?
Pick a job that is going to create the lifestyle that you want. Prioritize your lifestyle because you are not defined by your job. But if you do not have the life that you want, you're going to be sorely unhappy.
Even with general U.S. Index funds, like what is it like 85% of the returns came from six companies. Like, you are, to a degree, like, very, very exposed. I love looking at, I believe the ticker is VXUS. So, that's like a Vanguard fund. Every single different brokerage. Everything but the U.S.
📰 The Books Patti Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & More Authors Are Gifting This Year via Service95
Patti Smith, Author of Dua’s Monthly Read, Just Kids
Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag - “Reborn is a fascinating self-document, the raw and expressive musings of the brilliant writer still forming and informing herself. Open it anywhere and take off with her.”
Writing by Margurite Duras - “The author of The Lovers penned these ruminations on the process of her craft toward the end of her life. Straightforward yet enigmatic, Duras offers us a glimpse into her treasured solitude.”
The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano – “A wonderful introduction into the interconnective works of Modiano. He draws us into the vague mystery of Paris backstreets in pursuit of strangers disappearing like fading photographs.”
The Hour Of The Star by Clarise Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser – “The much-admired Lispector was born in the Ukraine but raised in Brazil. This exquisite little book, one to read and reread, will swiftly reveal why she is so beloved.”
After Nature by W.G. Sebald – “I absolutely love this early work of Sebald. Three poetically historic meditations tracing the perilous journeys of a German Renaissance painter, a naturalist explorer, and the writer himself.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Author of Dua’s Monthly Read, Half Of A Yellow Sun
Small by Small by Ike Anya – “A young man’s memoir of becoming a medical doctor in Nigeria. Unusual and beautiful and quiet.”
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski – “Set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a wonderful wise novel that I have loved for years.”
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta – “A classic of Nigerian literature. A woman’s story, set in working-class colonial Lagos, and a fun read that also enlightens.”
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez – “Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you.”
Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert by Jack Gilbert – “These poems are emotionally acute, and I go back to them often to remind myself of what words can do.”
Family Life by Akhil Sharma – “Beautiful writing and a haunting story of a family forever changed by a son’s accident.”
Min Jin Lee, Author of Dua’s Monthly Read, Pachinko
For Christmas, I give cookbooks, because they are useful and fanciful.
Banchan by Caroline Choe and Ghazalle Badiozamani – “‘Banchan’ is an umbrella term for the side dishes one eats with rice. However, great banchan can also be consoling, nourishing and staples to one’s life.”
Smoke & Pickles by Edward Lee – “I love everything Edward Lee cooks, and his understanding of American food is both smart and incredibly delicious.”
The Korean Cookbook by Junghyun Park and Jungyoon Cho – “This gorgeous encyclopedic cookbook should be owned by anyone who takes Korean food seriously.”
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering The Elements Of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton – “Samin Nosrat is a culinary wonder – a genius about what we want to eat and how food should taste.”
Better Baking by Genevieve Ko – “Ko, a superb baker, teaches us to reach higher baking heights. Her recipes are sublime.”
Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home by Eric Kim – “I love Kim’s recipes because they are creative, great to eat and absolutely approachable.”
Momofuku: A Cookbook by David Chang and Peter Meehan – “Chang transformed American thinking about cooking, and his knockout recipes here are ones I cook often.”
Douglas Stuart, Author of Dua’s Monthly Read, Shuggie Bain
Amongst Women by John McGahern – “As his daughters gather around him, an Irish farmer looks back upon his life as a freedom fighter. A raw, affecting book about a father’s regrets.”
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann – “Set at the time of the English civil war, a gloriously gutsy (and sexy) novel about a soldier driven to madness by his desire to possess his male lover.”
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford – “A propulsive romp about a wealthy Englishman who, upon arriving in colonial New York, turns the town upside down as people try to discover if he is who he claims to be.”
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri – “A proven classic. Quietly elegant stories about the Indian diaspora. Storytelling that feels like peeking in on the private disappointments of other lives.”
A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra – “Against the backdrop of the Chechen war, a big-hearted but harrowing novel that weaves together the lives of survivors trying to keep a young orphan from harm.”
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault – “Any fan of Madeline Miller should love this wonderful historical novel about Alexander the Great, as told through the eyes of his lover, the servant Bagoas.”
📰 Top Books of 2024 via Dua Lipa of Service95
In place of a Monthly Read for December, I’m sharing the books I’ll be putting under the tree this year.
Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi, translated by Caroline Waight – This small but mighty Norwegian Christmas story is like a modern retelling of Hans Christan Andersen’s The Little Match Girl (spoiler: expect tears). The perfect stocking filler.
James by Percival Everett – By taking the simple concept of retelling The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the enslaved Jim, Everett subverts and reclaims the original story. It’s so skillfully done.
Tenth Of December by George Saunders – No Christmas list is complete without a George Saunders book. I love his short story collections, and Tenth Of December is perhaps my favourite. The Semplica Girl Diaries is an absolute standout.
In The Distance by Hernan Diaz – I’m currently reading this strange and evocative western by Diaz. There’s a lot I want to discuss, so friends of mine can expect to find it under their tree this Christmas.
The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar, translated by Frank Wynne – I’m an Almodóvar evangelist in whatever form he comes to me – films, interviews, and now short stories. I’m so excited to read this, I want everyone to read along.
December 11
🎧 How to Build Wealth — With Codie Sanchez - Prof G Pod
The strongest brand up until World War II was the Catholic Church. Name anything that engages in corruption, leveraging or exploiting the masses, and just institutionalized pedophilia, and manages to be the most powerful institution in the world, The other most powerful brand in the world. And they are, in fact, the best brand builders. They understand distribution and place-based marketing. Let's build the most beautiful venues in the world, bringing the most talented artisans in the world because we want to fool people into believing that, yeah, there's a decent job that God hangs out here. And then we'll have robes and clothes and candles and music, and it's highly orchestrated andrated. I mean, these folks understood the Apple Store before Apple understood the Apple Store. Best branders in the world.
I no longer need to defer to the brand. A brand is shorthand or due diligence when you don't have time. But now it's very easy to do your own diligence. And the shorthand or the automatic deferential nod to a brand is no longer as obvious, meaning that brand equity on top of a shitty product is no longer the algorithm to build shareholder Value. It's brands that are built based on superior innovation, operations, distribution. Amazon's one of the strongest brands in the world. Google's one of the strongest brands in the world. What do these things have in common? What does any company have in common that has added over $100 billion in value in any single year? They spend almost no money on traditional branding. They spend it all on supply chain and innovation and actual 10x better product.
The stuff that breaks through is, in fact, either delivered differently through distribution, has better customer support, has more interesting people talking about the product, Is scrappier around building awareness and first and foremost uses digital technologies to unlock some type of innovation. What are some of the assets you want in a brand though? What are some of the things that really provide sustainable advantage? One of those things is visual metaphors. We have been learning from images or interpreting images for thousands of years. Thousands of years ago, people decided to educate their kids by painting stories on cave walls. Like, don't go over here, they will kill you. Or plant the crops at this time of the year. Such that as a species, we could leverage our core confidence as a species or our advantage, and that is communication and cooperation, and tell the next generation, help them learn. Such that communication and storytelling basically takes instinct. So if you are blessed with a visual metaphor, oh, my God, oh, my God. I mean, literally Darth Vader or Goofy or the Matterhorn or Snow White or the Seven Dwarves. I mean, that shit, those are really, really powerful metaphors. Visual metaphors, objects, symbols, the color brown. If I'm driving and I see a big brown thing next to me, I'm like, oh, it's UPS. Oh, they're nice people. They make good money. They work really hard. They're handsome, dreamy men. Sometimes they wear shorts, but they always wear brown and their trucks are always really, really clean. Boom. I like that, right? I see a swoosh. I see a swoosh. I think you didn't win silver. You lost gold. I think of competitiveness. I think of Michael Jordan. These things are just so powerful when you own one.
📰 The BEST Vegan Carrot Cake and Is Therapy Speak Out of Control? by Korean Vegan
"Boundary-setting" conveniently drops a cloak over the mirror, one that might otherwise reveal that they're not the nice, kind, empathetic, generous person they thought they were. That they're not strong, honest, and fair. But instead, the reflection might show someone who is a little bit unkind, manipulative, selfish, and weak.
friendship doesn't work without accountability. It doesn't work without mutual respect, trust, and forgiveness. It doesn't work without work
"I'm entitled to protect my mental health." And though it's rarely said out loud, the end of that handy defense is "even if it disproportionately damages yours."
The Stranger Beside Me is a jaw-dropping account by a journalist who was writing about the murders without knowing that the culprit was one of her close friends. I know!! Hard to believe! Extremely well-written and keeps you on the edge of your seat as effectively as a novel.
📰 Re-Noted: Creative People and Their Notebooks by
Basquiat: Composition Notebooks Basquiat bought his notebooks from the local drug store.
Octavia Butler’s 5-Star Notebooks Sitting with Octavia Butler’s notes at the Huntington Library
Lynell George’s beautiful exploration of Butler’s creative process, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky.
Kurt Cobain: Spiral Notebook Cobain left behind over two-dozen spiral notebooks
Rachel Carson’s Pocket-Sized Memo Book The conservationist, Rachel Carson, confessed that her favorite “laboratory” was the natural word. She always carried a small notebook in her pocket so she could record her observations.
Pair with Carson’s conversation-changing book, Silent Spring.
Toni Morrison: Yellow Legal Pads Toni Morrison’s great novels unfurled over hundreds of pages of yellow legal pads.
Pair a yellow legal pad with any of Morrison’s dazzling novels or a collection of her essays like The Source of Self Regard.
December 10
🎧 The Art of Spending Money by Prof G Markets
The splurges when you're young are, I think you remember them more, especially if they're around experiences. Anyways, my advice to young people, you know, Andrew Huberman and Peter Ahtia will say, you know, don't drink alcohol. I don't see drunkenness. I see togetherness. And I just love the image of you and your homies in Mykonos doing your thing. And then late at night, getting shut down by every woman in the club. Still, it was worth it. (Time 0:12:11)
When I'm doing a lot of traveling and I'm lonely and my partner can't come with me or my kids can't be with me, I call one of many friends and I say, come join me. And if it's not easy for them, logistically or financially, I make it easy for them. And we go out and we go to the best place.
I think only about one-third of the planet are consumers. What does that mean? It means that they have enough money to buy things beyond basic food, shelter, and education. So only a third of us even get to make these decisions. Do I want a scarf, do I want to go to Mykonos or do I want to take my spouse out for a nice dinner?
Young people split the check or whatever it is, venmo me or send me a request. I get it, right? I think if you're in your 30s and you're blessed with some reasonable economic security, general format should be the following. We get this one. Oh, the next one, they get it. And if people aren't, if things aren't kind of evening out over time, you have to decide whether you want to stay friends with these people. Because, you know, generally what I have found is that you're out with couples. I can't stand splitting the check.
That's what it means to be generous, is you're doing something for someone else you wouldn't do for yourself. It makes no sense to you, but it's important to them, so you do it for them. (Time 0:42:24)
What I have found is that, and I wish I'd figured this out earlier, writing somebody and complimenting them and recognizing them or telling them you were thinking about them or telling Them how impressive you are with them or taking the time to say, you know, you handled this situation so well, or congratulations, this is just such a nice achievement for you, or taking The time just to recognize their achievement in a very thoughtful, explicit way, especially men to men. I think that's the best gift you can give another man.
After the Great Financial Recession hit in 2008, I had a loft in New York. I had to sell that. I just didn't have any money. I wasn't making any money. And all of a sudden, I had negative net worth. So I had to sell my loft. That was very disappointing. I loved, it was kind of just humiliating to be whatever I was, 43, and have to sell my house to pay my bills. You know, I was never in debt, you know, but. Were you with a partner at that point? No, I was single at that point.
How are you doing forced savings? Ed: I have the automatic 5% that goes into the 401k and then you match that. And then I'm also just immediately when I get by the beginning of the year, I just take a chunk of cash and just put it in the IRA. And, and that's the end of it.
You're at a point, Ed, where you shouldn't be saving 5%. You should be saving 10% and then the 5%, you know, 15%. Because if you just do the math, it's like what Brian Chesky from Airbnb says, you can have it all, you just can't have it all at once.
I took all of the money that we saved (from moving to Florida from New York) and I put it into the market. And so immediately, I think combined, we were probably making, you know, I was probably making between, I don't know, $400,000 and $700,000 a year between the two of us. And then we took that 14% swing in savings and all the other savings. We took about $150,000, $200,000 a year and we put it into stocks for 10 years from 2010 to 2020. Yeah.
Ed Elson I mean, the thing that really shocks me is that, I mean, just how crazy it's gotten $400,000 to $700,000 a year and you got priced out of New York. Like, it's unbelievable. That's the part that I can't really wrap my head around in, especially living in New York.
You should always be thinking about a lifestyle arbitrage, especially in a world of remote work. Where could I move? Don't be a snob. A lot of people are really happy in Atlanta. And economic security is an enormous ointment for stress and anxiety. And if you are blessed with mobility, you want to take advantage of it.
Scott’s lecture style: 3h Socrates-style
Think the best classes are, I taught three-hour sessions, was an hour of actual content and lecturing, and then two hours of critical thinking and debate. And that is, I would say, okay, should Nike take money out of advertising and open stores and vertical distribution? And I would say, Ellen, please make an argument for this as it relates to trends in modern-day branding about vertical distribution. And then she'd get nervous and fumble over herself and try and make a comment. And then I'd say, okay, Joe, disagree with her and show why she has this wrong. And then he'd even make something less cogent, but the class would have time to absorb the issue. And I'd start calling on people and asking them not to argue, but to thoughtfully debate, really come out, come up with things, push back on them. I'm not afraid to say, look, that was really intelligent, what you said. What you need to be able to do is say it in a third of the time, because it'll be three times as powerful I'm going to come back to in 30 seconds. My point is, you can really, I don't want to say get in their face, but really get in their heads and make it super engaged and create a little bit of tension that they know you're going to Call on them three or four times. And that creates a level of intensity and excitement. By the way, it's not for everyone. Some kids don't like that. I once had a kid come to my, actually I've had it several times, say, I get very nervous. I'd rather you didn't call on me. And I said, I'm going to continue to call on you, but you can say, I need a minute or I don't know, and I'll come back to you. And you're in a safe place, but you have to get past this. It's going to be very hard to be successful economically without the ability to speak in front of at least a small group of people. So anyways, play to your strengths, a small group of people, really active conversation with 20 kids. If everyone hasn't spoken at least once during the class, you have failed. You're not as much a teacher as you are a maestro for a really robust conversation, but congratulations on your new role. I think it's very rewarding.
December 9
🎧 Is Target a Leveraged Buyout Candidate? + Comcast Cuts the Cord by Prof G Markets
Jaguars are the only animal that when hunted, will perceive they're being hunted and then sprint, circle around, and then hunt the hunter. You want to talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? That is one of the greatest visual metaphors in automobile history.
December 6
The Detroit-rooted activist Grace Lee Boggs was born female and Chinese in the America of 1915—a time in the country when women were barred from the vote and Chinese were barred from entry.
It may not be easy but perhaps it really is that simple.
December 3
🎥 Cynthia Erivo in the Wicked Wild (Full Episode) | Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge
I think life is long and it's short at the same time. I feel like we have a responsibility to both explore our lives as much as we possibly can because we have a lot of it and explore it as much as we can because we don't have a lot of it as well.
December 1
📰 Everything I Know About Ritual by
You shape the rituals. Then the rituals shape you.
I think it’s important to be invested in the place you inhabit. Home should not be only a place to eat and sleep, but a set of rituals created to dwell poetically.
📰 Why All Your Friends Are Now “Sober-Ish” by Khe Hy
We're deep in the tween years and I am already getting the eye rolls. The "Feelings Hiroshima" has yet to come, but here's a beautiful and pragmatic thread on how to approach it as parents.
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