Why Keep a Master List?

 

Nicholas Bate, whose productivity shows that he a Master of Lists, tells us why keeping one makes a huge difference.

[I use Dingbat journals for most of my lists simply because they possess a certain beauty.]

Once Upon a Time in a White House Receiving Line

History's small moments can be revealing.

[Photo by Eric Prouzet at Unsplash]

First Paragraph

I wasn't trying to play the victim until the world taught me what a powerful grift it is. Believe it or not, all I wanted was to be successful. To hustle like my Pops but to keep my life and freedom in the process. My desperate chase for your approval was really all about that. I needed that approval in order to be considered successful. I needed it to feel like my life mattered.

- From Victim: A Novel by Andrew Boryga

Glory Road

 

Have recently been reading Glory Road before bedtime. Bruce Catton was far more than a great historian. There is a poetry in his prose.

Inspirational

 My high school reunion is this weekend.

My job is to stand near the end of the bar so people can mutter, "Well, at least I look better than that guy."

I am a river to my people.

The Well-Being Gap Between Liberals and Conservatives

American Affairs: Musa al-Gharbi examines evidence indicating that liberals tend to be more depressed than conservatives.

AI Staff Work?

 Writing on Substack, law prof and Instapundit Glenn Harlan Reynolds presents a fascinating and highly plausible possibility:

"So this is purest speculation on my part. But watching the incredibly complex multi-domain rescue mission this weekend, it suddenly struck me that new, powerful AI might be behind this. Moving all these units into so many places at once, making sure that they have communications organized, fuel, ammunition, food, the right troops with the right transports, and so on is enormously complex. It normally requires the work of hundreds of staffers to do this sort of thing, and that takes time. But it happened awfully fast, and nearly flawlessly."

[HT: A Large Regular]

The Art of Noticing

 Live & Learn is an exercise in life and beauty.

The photographs of the birds are enchanting.

On the Proms

 

"I am going to run nightly concerts and train the public by easy stages. Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music."

- Sir Henry Wood on his formation of the BBC Proms in 1927.

Just Arrived Last Night