Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Daniel Bolelli: The God of Wine.

- VDH: A confederacy of fabulists.

- Why are we pretending AI will take all the jobs? If Jim Cramer is predicting an AI jobs apocalypse we'll probably have an AI jobs boon.

- Tyler Cowen: How I practice what I do.

Today I Join "the Free" (While Watching College Football)

Intoxication is an antidote to cognitive control, a way to temporarily hamstring that opponent to creativity, cultural openness, and communal bonding...

Dionysus appeals to the more ancient, primitive regions of our brain, those dedicated to sex, emotions, movement, touch...

We need to become looser - one of Dionysus' alternative names in Latin was Liber, "The Free." 

From Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland.

Today I Join "the Free" (While Watching College Football)

Intoxication is an antidote to cognitive control, a way to temporarily hamstring that opponent to creativity, cultural openness, and communal bonding...

Dionysus appeals to the more ancient, primitive regions of our brain, those dedicated to sex, emotions, movement, touch...

We need to become looser - one of Dionysus' alternative names in Latin was Liber, "The Free." 

From Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland.

Advice from Dionysus

Three cups only do I propose for sensible men, one for health, the second for love and pleasure and the third for sleep; when this has been drunk up, wise guests make for home. The fourth cup is mine no longer, but belongs to hubris; the fifth to shouting; the sixth to revel; the seventh to black eyes; the eighth to summonses; the ninth to bile; and the tenth to madness and people tossing the furniture about.  

Good drinking advice from Ancient Greece via the book Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization.