Weekend Reads

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

I wrote about the different ranges of conversation and what happens if you do not practice them. Specifically, I went back into the office after years of remote work and found myself unable to be quick witted.

The long, medium and short range of communication are lindy. They are each unique and without exercising those muscles, weird things begin to happen.

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Weekend Reads

U.S. inflation is slowly going down. Year over Year is at 6.5%, but the last six months annualized is 1.8%. The YoY numbers are rapidly becoming misleading. The federal government takes a blend of different products and presents the overall price change. But that means it misses outliers, like eggs. Go to the grocery store and see if you notice a big change in egg prices.

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Overall U.S. cancer death rates have declined by 33% since 1991, according to new data from the American Cancer Society. Treatment has gotten better, sure, but you don't see many people smoke cigarettes anymore. When I was growing up it was still ubiquitous. However, there has not been much progress with Alzheimer's disease. If you get that one, you are out luck.

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Has technology gotten objectively worse in the last few years?

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Sometimes it's a pleasure to read a profile of a high end jewel thief.

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Adderall isn't just for students anymore. 40 million people is a lot. And this is only prescription. There is a lot of illegal Adderall use. The white collar workforce is starting to resemble professional sports. A lot of doping.

We tend to think people in previous times married much younger. That isn't really the case. Among the nobility, teen marriage was common, but not with everyone else.

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Sarah M. Brownsberger writes about words shifting their part of speech in The Hedgehog Review.

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Soundful recently raised $3.8 million—Tracks are created by AI, and the technology “enables anyone to create incredible music quickly.” It doesn't seem very lindy.

Here’s an example:

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Have you ever heard of Snake Island?

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Americans don't really care about what happens in the rest of the world. Usually, it's other people in foreign countries who know way more about American than Americans know about them. One exception is the British royal family. Americans are interested in it. They love the drama. And so, this happens.

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Beautiful animal. And a brave house cat

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Music