Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Lex Friedman's Reading List

Lex Fridman posted his desired upcoming reading list for the start of the year (he's hoping to read a book a week for all of 2023) and he was much derided for it. Some thought it was too basic or high schoolish. But Lex explained than many of the books on the list he'd be re-reading. Here's the list:

I've read 13 of the 22 books listed and another 2 I started but put down because I just didn't like the books (The Stranger by Camus and On the Road by Kerouac). Many of the books on the list I've read multiple times and had been planning to re-read Siddhartha again before this list was published. Hope to read Meditations and 2001: A Space Odyssey in 2023 - so obviously I have no problem with the list. 

Do have an issue with the idea of "a book a week" since reading is not a contest or a race but I applaud Lex for putting his list out there and maybe encouraging others to do some more reading in 2023 then they did in 2022. That's my plan too!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have." - Charles Bukowski

"When trying to identify the smartest person in the room, start by looking for the person talking the least." - Peter Mallouk

"Sex is the great motivator for most complex life on Earth: humans, plants, fungi, even many single-celled organisms. Bacteria, though, don't give a damn. They're incels." - Lex Fridman

"Heard a rival dad is planning to hand out king size candy bars for Halloween so now every trick or treater that comes to my house is getting a full rack of ribs." - Simon Holland

Lex Fridman's Analysis of Putin and Ukraine

 

Well worth your time. Also want to note that there's also many in the US that don't think they are being subjected to propaganda too.

Ed Witten

 So I made a note to myself six months ago that simply said, "Ed Witten." I had no recall whatsoever why I made this notation to myself so I went down a Ed Witten rabbit hole. 

Turns out Ed Witten is a "genius's genius." The guy is the only physicist to ever win the Fields Medal which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize but for math. He's also the creator of M-Theory which is the hot "new" thing in the world of String Theory (it unifies the five different versions of String Theory).

Then it hit me that I must of heard of Witten on some podcast and bingo. It was a podcast between Lex Fridman and Eric Weinstein. And then I recalled that they were derisive of both Witten and String Theory. Given how I feel about String Theory - I probably agreed with them.  

If you've gotten this far you're probably wondering why I bothered writing this post. Simple - in case I ever find another note to myself that says,"Ed Witten."