Updated as of 9/12/2022
Where I’m hanging
- New Orleans: where it rains a lot and sometimes floods (but the food, music and revelry more than make up for it 😉)
What I’m doing
—Watching/Binging
- Football is back! 🏈
—Contemplating/Trying…
- Building an online community called “Inner Circle”.
—Reading…
- The Dhammapada (a precious trove of timeless wisdom)
- Emergence The connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software, a 2001 book by Steven Johnson
- The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything, by Michael Blastland
- The Earl of Louisiana, by A.J. Liebling (about governor Earl Long, whom the author calls a “peckerwood Caligula”)
- The Art of Disappearing, by Ajahn Brahm (how to be mindful and meditate without trying too hard)
- Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, by David A. French (incredibly insightful examination of our current hyper-polarized politics and society)
—Verbiage to learn/ponder
engulf, bête noire, littoral, panoptic, obsédé, expostulate, skosh, rugelach, peruke, larder, recondite, abstruse, shirt-tail cousins, larping, mien, matryoshka, midden, morphogenesis, jape, trencher, seneschal, pheromone, cybernetics, fetters, coarsen,
This “now page” was inspired by Derek Sivers. If you want to learn more, check this out.
Also, check out his excellent list of recommended books.
