Farnam Street Wisdom

- Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance

- Ayn Rand on Why Philosophy Matters

- Signaling: The Language Peacocks, Gazelles and Humans all Speak

- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full transcript and audio). Always worth revisiting this speech from time to time.

Linky Links

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

- The time the US tried to buy Greenland.

- Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time

- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (full audio and transcript)

- Wait - did China come close to buying Greenland in 2017? That makes the story a little different doesn't it.

- Battleships Part III

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace is a commencement speech given in 2005 at Kenyon College.

Farnam Street has the full audio of David Foster Wallace giving the speech plus the transcript.

This is something everyone should listen to or read at least once a year (or more frequently).