In a year pitched to endless anxiety and rife with perilous unknowns
I have spent a tremendous amount of time thinking about Enya.
1ď¸âŁ Enya is Everywhere
âIn a year pitched to endless anxiety and rife with perilous unknowns, I have spent a tremendous amount of time thinking about Enya. Maybe it is because the Irish musician born Eithne PĂĄdraigĂn NĂ BhraonĂĄin, who has never toured and yet has become her own enchanted genre over the last 33 years, moved to a 19th-century Victorian castle just south of Dublin at the turn of the century and has been a practitioner of self-isolation ever since.â
Fugees - Ready Or Not
2ď¸âŁ Loneliness and the paradox of choice
âLoneliness is a problem of decision-making. Being around other people, whether in a social or work setting, comes with many supports to our decision-making process. In an idealized process of decision-making, each time the question "What's next?" pops up, we imagine a menu of options. We choose one of them, and then we go through a psychological process of committing to it. This leads to activity, and both within that activity and after it, we repeat this algorithm many more times.â
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
3ď¸âŁ I Am a Climate Optimist
âI have become a climate optimist. I now believe much of the world will achieve net-zero emissions by 2040 or earlier, well before the 2050 deadlines set by many governments.
And no, I am not taking any mind-bending medicine, legal or illegal. I have not yet had my first Scotch, but I am well-caffeinated.â
Black Coffee @ Salle Wagram in Paris, France for Cercle
4ď¸âŁ âHe Drank It Blackâ: On Dinah Lenneyâs âCoffeeâ
âWhat does coffee do to you? Dinah Lenneyâs Coffee is a free-form exploration of such surprisingly complicated questions: Why do we drink coffee? What gives it its power? Humans have been considering these and other coffee-related queries (like âIs it good for my health?â and âIs it good for my society?â) for centuries, ever since they first encountered the substance. Lenney is most interested in coffeeâs direct effects on our lived experience, and what they mean.â
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Four Post Cards
5ď¸âŁ 1.25 percent of basketball is scoring
âThe game of defense is in one way easy. You have to ask: âWhere is the ball?â âWhere is your man?â âWhere do you need to be?â But the bummer is, you have to ask yourself all these things more than once, as the play develops. How much? In the estimation of one longtime basketball executive, the ideal number of times to ask yourself these questions is two to three times per second. For a whole career.â
How A High School Strategy Beat An NBA Team
6ď¸âŁ Slate Star Codex Gives A Graduation Speech
âSome of you will say yes, my education was worth it. I am the 3.3%! I know who Euclid was and I understand the sublime beauty of geometry. I donât think I would have been exposed to it, or had the grit to keep studying it, if I hadnât been here surrounded by equally curious peers, under the instruction of enthusiastic professors. This revelation was worth losing my cabin in Colorado, worth resigning myself to the daily grind and the constant lurking fear of failure. I claim it all.
Shia LaBeouf "Just Do It" Motivational Speech
7ď¸âŁ When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
âAct 1: Sunday afternoon
So you know when youâre flopping about at home, minding your own business, drinking from your water bottle in a way that does not possess any intent to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia?â