Updated as of 8/11/2022

Where I’m hanging

• New Orleans: where it’s currently hot & humid (but the great food and music more than make up for it 😉)

What I’m doing

—Watching/Binging

• “For All Mankind,” an alternate history of what would have happened if the global space race had never ended (on AppleTV+)
• Fargo series on Hulu (based on the Coen brothers movie of the same name)

—Contemplating/Trying…

• The Craft note/doc app, which syncs seamlessly across my computer, smartphone and iPad. This podcast episode convinced me to try it and I’m glad I did.

—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

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.