Eric Schmidt and Warren Buffett
Who is Eric Schimdt to tell us how we are to live? Warren Buffett knows better.
Still life
With timer.
Solidarité
A New Yorker cover.
Art by Lucille Clerc
“Break one, thousand will rise.”
Yesterday / today / tomorrow
The image is by a London-based French illustrator, Lucille Clerc.
Dad the tooter
My son Ben has revealed a misunderstanding from his childhood.
Words of wisdom from Albert King
“Most important thing: the better you get, the harder you work.”
“Day at a time”
How to rob drug dealers and live. From The Wire.
Mich wundert, das ich so frelich bin.
Wonderful, compact philosophies of life.
For Canada
Stay safe, Canada.
A postcard from my future self
Writing to one’s future self may seem to you (as it does to me) awfully corny. Getting a note from one’s future self is another story.
Glen Campbell’s last song
An existential statement.
Then and now
Thirty years married!
From a file folder
My dad sent me this questionnaire probably not long after I moved to Boston.
x + 1
From the 21st-Century Stoic.
From Philip K. Dick
“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
Marshall Fine (1956–2014)
“He always seemed to me like a man who stepped into our world from the nineteenth century, a learned professor of some -ology or other. He was in truth a violist, violinist, pianist, conductor, and composer.”
A request for good vibrations
For Elaine’s brother.
Where were you when Nixon resigned?
I was at home watching television.
Simulacrum alert
A Street Corner is not a streetcorner.
Stritch wisdom
“Everybody’s got a sack of rocks.”
False needs in the mailbox
“False needs” is our household’s name for the catalogues that come to our mailbox, day after week after month after year.
Happiness and finitude
“Tragic wisdom is the wisdom of happiness and finitude, happiness and impermanence, happiness and despair. This is not as paradoxical as it might sound”: André Comte-Sponville.
Hotel glasses
Use the disposable cups instead.
Recently updated
New York Times obituary for Seymour Barab.
Seymour Barab (1921–2014)
Seymour was a man of surpassing intelligence and — much more importantly — surpassing kindness.
Things to do in Los Angeles
An incomplete list.
Six degrees of Richard Nixon
Can you work out your six (or fewer) degrees of separation from Richard Nixon? Yes, that Richard Nixon. Comments from Normann on my post ab...
RZ
“The one thing I have learned about losing a friend — or losing anybody — is that the losing goes on for a long time, taking different forms at different times.”
Good advice from Seth Godin
“If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.”