August 2022

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

I write about a new type of person. Someone who probably didn't exist before the internet was invented.

Weekend Reads

Nassim Taleb writes about Christianity. Many ideas that we attribute today to social progress –including secularism, etc. are direct descendants of Christianity, mostly in its Western branch. This includes, of course, as we will see, atheism.

China is going through its worst heatwave in possibly recorded history. It really is shocking, although one reason for absence of coverage is probably that China has gone to great lengths to reduce the amount of news & reporting that comes out of China in general, or ability of its own people to share what happens there w/ the rest of the world.

How to read the news. Every source has a motivation, and writers generally have some idea of what the story will be when they start choosing sources.

In a perfect world exercise would be a byproduct of living a life, either through going places or playing enjoyable sports. Gyms do have a tendency to make us feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Indo-European is a language family shared by 3 billion people. Where did it begin? Who invented it? In 2015, genetic evidence published by Reich and colleagues showed that the Yamnaya spread more than language throughout Eurasia: beginning about 5,000 years ago, their genes began to appear everywhere from northern Europe to the Indian subcontinent. But the Yamnaya are not thought to have invented the Indo-European language that they spoke—only to have spread it. Where could it have come from?

Zuckerberg is releasing a new VR headset in October. I don't know if VR will ever become popular, but today we can't even live without our phones. So who knows what's going to happen.

Michael Bonner shares a take on music

A short guide to Soviet Architecture

Music