Give Up by The Postal Service. This week, Kate and I watched The Postal Service play the Hollywood Bowl (nice venue!). It was the final cease on the tour they’ve been on to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the band’s one and solely album: Give Up. It was a fantastic present. Plenty of nostalgia. This album takes me again to when Kate and I first bought married and have been residing in a tiny condominium in Norman, OK, working at Jamba Juice collectively. The album nonetheless holds up.
Exploring the Happiness Premium for Ever-Married Males. I not too long ago did a podcast interview with demographer Lyman Stone about a few of the myths round marriage and household (search for that episode to go up within the close to future). One subject we didn’t get an opportunity to debate that he simply launched some findings on is whether or not or not marriage is a shedding proposition for males. There’s numerous on-line chatter that it’s due to the numerous probability of divorce and the way sad divorce makes individuals. However Lyman’s analysis exhibits that ever-married males (which incorporates divorced males) are, on common, happier than never-married males. Whereas males’s happiness ranges do initially take a dip after a divorce, their happiness then merely returns to premarital ranges with out an everlasting happiness price. This means that, as divorce lawyer and AoM podcast visitor James Sexton argued in certainly one of my favourite episodes this 12 months, marriage is a lottery price enjoying.
The Frenzy of Renown by Leo Braudy. I learn this tome of a e book a number of years in the past whereas researching our sequence on social standing. I nonetheless take into consideration insights I bought from Frenzy immediately. Professor of English literature and former AoM podcast visitor Leo Braudy takes readers by a sweeping cultural historical past of fame from Alexander the Nice to fashionable social media influencers. The massive takeaway from this e book is that as historical past has progressed, fame has turn out to be an increasing number of democratized. Two thousand years in the past, solely kings and emperors apprehensive about crafting a public picture that may unfold all through their realm; immediately, anybody with a smartphone can turn out to be well-known and has to fret about sustaining widespread recognition. It’s an enormous cultural change that has include each upsides and disadvantages.
Todoist. I’ve been utilizing Todoist to run my life and enterprise for a number of years. It’s a easy guidelines app, but it surely’s bought numerous options that make it actually helpful. You’ll be able to flip emails into duties, create recurring duties, categorize duties, prioritize them, and so on. For those who’ve been searching for a device to trace all of the stuff you’ll want to get completed, I extremely suggest it. Be certain that to take a look at my complete article on how I exploit Todoist.
Quote of the Week
Biography, particularly of the nice and good, who’ve risen by their very own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling examine. Its direct tendency is to breed the excellence it data.
— Horace Mann
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