We want to know, from our vantage point in the present, that things will be OK later on.
But we never can.
1ď¸âŁ Chris Rock Tried to Warn Us
âYouâve been telling audiences for years that racism isnât going away and remains a potent force in America. Do you feel like youâve seen circumstances improve at all?â
âItâs real. Itâs not going away. I said this before, but Obama becoming the president, itâs progress for white people. Itâs not progress for Black people. Itâs the Jackie Robinson thing. Itâs written like he broke a barrier, as if there werenât Black people that could play before him. And thatâs how white people have learned about racism. They think, when these people work hard enough, theyâll be like Jackie. And the real narrative should be that these people, the Black people, are being abused by a group of people that are mentally handicapped. And weâre trying to get them past their mental handicaps to see that all people are equal.â
How does the financial system work?
2ď¸âŁ John Cleese Discusses Creativity, Political Correctness, Monty Python, and Artichokes
âSome might see a guide to creativity as an oxymoron. Do you believe it can be learned?â
âYou can learn the circumstances in which you are likely to become more creative. A professor of psychology said to me once, âIf youâre sad, you have sad thoughts. If youâre angry, you have angry thoughts.â So, to be creative, you have to have creative thoughts. You need to be in a creative mood. How do you get in a creative mood? Well, a creative mood, by definition, is a playful one. Why can children play so naturally? Because the parents are minding the shop. The kids donât have to worry about whoâs making dinner. So, if you want to play as an adult, you have to create a space where you get away from the ordinary responsibilities of everyday life.â
The Dark Knight: "What do you believe in?"
3ď¸âŁ The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist
âAraujo had a crazy idea, and he shared it with his friend SebastiĂĄn GarcĂa Bolster. This was a few years after the botched Ramallo heist had lodged itself in Araujo's brain. It would be crazy to rob a bank but not leave, he mentioned to Bolster. To disappear through a hole. Bolster had been friends with Araujo since high school, and he agreed: That did sound like a wild way to rob a bank. But he assumed it was just some lark; his pal Araujo smoked a lot of weed.â
Chris Paul Scores 61 Points in High School for His Grandfather
4ď¸âŁ Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
âThe future will never provide the reassurance you seek from it. As the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics understood, much of our suffering arises from attempting to control what is not in our control. And the main thing we try but fail to control â the seasoned worriers among us, anyway â is the future. We want to know, from our vantage point in the present, that things will be OK later on. But we never can.â
Jacques PĂŠpin Makes a Delicious Fried Egg
5ď¸âŁ The Limitless Potential of Zion Williamson
âAs much as Williamson provides, it never seems to be enough for anyone else. We wanted a college career capped off with him cutting down the nets. We wanted an inaugural NBA season in which he played every national television date and won Rookie of the Year. We want to hear more from him. We want all of those things immediately, on our schedule, not on his or the Pelicansâ.â
Elaine's Cool Boyfriend
6ď¸âŁ 'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion
âChief among these misconceptions is the view that feelings are innate and universal, and can be consistently measured. So, anger, for example, is thought of as a fundamental building block of human nature with a tell-tale physiological âfingerprintâ; all weâve done is gone and named it. But that idea is categorically untrue, Barrett says, and reams of scientific data now back her up.
âAngerâ is a cultural concept that we apply to hugely divergent patterns of change in the body, and thereâs no single facial expression reliably associated with it, even in the same person. (Some cultures donât have a concept that corresponds to âangerâ, such as the Utku Inuit of Canadaâs Northwest Territories.) The same is true, astonishingly, of âhappinessâ, âexcitementâ, âdisappointmentâ, you name it. No emotion is tied to a single, objective state in the body. Rather, emotions are cultural artefacts.â
Lane 8 - Essential Mix
7ď¸âŁ Being Known Is Being Loved
âMy reality is that I canât buy my own bullshit/sell my soul enough to tweet out tech proverbs or repurpose old parables for likes. My reality is that I donât have the skill to transactionally aggressively network and I canât sustain the energy from social interactions to exponentially scale deep connections to the tune of 25+ meetings/week I care about. So instead, my only option to be loved is to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known. To wear my heart on my digital sleeve, a proverbial sleeve thatâs threads are made up of a sum of all of my writing, social media accounts, in-person interactions, and more, not just a curated feed of minimum viable story filled with dopamine-inducing 280 character lines.â