Generous Orthodoxy

I'm cruising thru the back catalog of "Revisionist History" and came across the episode titled "Generous Orthodoxy" (Season 1 Episode 9) 

 In Malcoms own words, generous orthodoxy is "...comes from a theologian named Hans Frei. It’s an oxymoron, of course. To be orthodox is to be committed to tradition. To be generous, as Frei defines it, is to be open to change. But Frei thought the best way to live our lives was to find the middle ground because orthodoxy without generosity leads to blindness and generosity without orthodoxy is shallow and empty. One of the hardest things in the world is to find that balance. Not just for those pursuing a life of faith but for anyone interested in making their world better. I think Chester Wenger shows us the way."

Here is the letter mentioned in Malcom Gladwells article

An Open Letter To My Beloved Church

Why Isn't this A Movie Already

Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth

Good lawd that story from the Smithsonian magazine has it all. I dare you to read it and tell me it doesn't deserve to be a movie (if even only a made for tv movie)

I'm With Cathy O'Neil on This One

From Cathy O'Neils article: The political uprising we should have expected

"The aftermath of the coronavirus is likely to include a new political uprising—an Occupy Wall Street 2.0, but this time much more massive and angrier. Once the health emergency is over, we will see the extent to which rich, well-connected and well-resourced communities will have been taken care of, while contingent, poor and stigmatized communities will have been thoroughly destroyed. Moreover, we will have seen how political action is possible—multitrillion dollar bailouts and projects can be mobilized quickly—but only if the cause is considered urgent. This mismatch of long-disregarded populations finally getting the message that their needs are not only chronically unattended, but also chronically dismissed as politically required, will likely have drastic, pitchfork consequences."

Today I learned about Pretirement

I had always planned to do "something" for as long as I possibly could regardless needing a steady income or not. I guess there's a word for it - pretirement

Pretirement: What Is It and Why Should You Care?

Give it a read and maybe it will help you plan that shift from working to not working a little better.

A New Resolution

"Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice - now. Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! You aren't a child anymore. The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be. The longer you wait, the more you'll be vulnerable to mediocrity and feel filled with shame and regret, because you know you are capable of better. From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do - now" 

--- Epictetus

Booky Books Book Update

Update #5

As I expected, Jaron Lanier's book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" went quickly being only 176 pages long. Its an interesting read and a well made argument. What really grabbed my attention were the footnotes. Soooooo much great reference material I want to spend the time reading all the articles and boooks referenced in his book.

On to the next read! Maybe even finally finish up "Sync" :)

Finished
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover – by Gregory Zuckerman
November 5, 2010

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury USA, 2009

The Rich Don't Always Win
Sam Pizzigati
(2013-09-26)

Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
 Anand Giridharadas
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier

Picador; Reprint edition (August 27, 2019)

On the Nightstand
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
 
Not Started Yet
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Number: The Language of Science
Tobias Dantzig
Plume, 2007

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2014

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin, 2000

A Tour of the Calculus
David Berlinski
Vintage, 1997

First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid [full-text]
Euclid, with annotations by John Casey
Project Gutenberg, 2007

Measurement
Paul Lockhart
Belknap, 2012

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Jimena Canales
May 26, 2015

In My Day We Just Called em Dumb Ass

Bad Thinkers

"Gullibility, carelessness and closed-mindedness are examples of what the US philosopher Linda Zagzebski, in her book Virtues of the Mind (1996), has called ‘intellectual vices’. Others include negligence, idleness, rigidity, obtuseness, prejudice, lack of thoroughness, and insensitivity to detail. Intellectual character traits are habits or styles of thinking."