Weekend Reads

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

Pharmaceutical drug shortages happen all the time. But you never hear about them. Recently, however, the Biden Administration has decided to crack down on Adderall, creating a nationwide shortage. The administration is worried the growth is getting out of control.

Why did use explode in recent years? Why has it become something utilized by lawyers, doctors, office workers and managers in white collar office jobs? Is any of this Lindy? Click Here to read More…

Weekend Reads

Chinese Premier Xi Jinping visited Russia last week. The two countries are bolstering relations and setting up an anti-NATO block. Russia even will start using the yuan in foreign trade settlements with countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The American fast food KFC was delivered to the hotel that Xi Jinping is staying. KFC is very popular in China, and throughout Europe. This video explains why KFC has diminished in America lately.

There are so many micro-celebrities today. Take for example this story, a sci-fi author who lives in Utah who makes tens of millions a dollars a year writing books. No media organization covers him. He has a massive fan base. This article, in my opinion, is written a little tongue in cheek. The Journalist represents himself as a coastal elite who can’t believe this writer has so much success.

American cities are starting to transform downtown offices into apartments and condos. The problem is windows. Would you live in an apartment with no bedroom window?

Furniture shopping is tough. The truth is most anything of quality is unaffordable to most people. People are so used to cheap, imitation versions of things that they are blown away at the prices of quality goods. People are shocked when they find out a quality front door costs $3,000 and can go way higher, for example. Most people don't realize it but most homes are made out of cheap materials today or a lack of expensive materials.

Eli Dourado writes that If we had propagated the rate of growth in commercial transatlantic aircraft speeds that existed from 1939 to the mid-1970s, we would have Mach-4 airliners by now. But the overland ban put an end to all that. It made small supersonic aircraft, which need to fly shorter overland routes, essentially illegal, closing off the iteration cycle that could drive progress in the industry.

Chris Arnade walks LA. Everyone has a car in LA. But he is walking. It looks pretty depressing. But it’s a good read.

This is a fun Instagram account. It shows you cheap houses across the United States. The range of prices in this country is amazing.

The new Ford Mustang looks like shit. Look how cheap this looks. It’s an iPad surrounded by plastic. This has got to be the ugliest era of cars that has existed. I can’t believe Elon Musk convinced every car company to copy his interior design.

The Russian author Anton Chekhov pictures a free life.

Do you remember how little people drank water before the early 2000s? Ask an older relative how much water they drank daily growing up. Or you should try having just one cup of water a day for a month. See how you feel. There was a hydration revolution in the early 2000s where everyone starting drinking water all day. The people walking around today are the most hydrated people in history. We tend to forget about how uncommon drinking 10 bottles of water a day was.

I see people walking around the street crunching their neck looking at the phone. It’s only going to get worse as younger generations are growing up addicted to their phone. It would be bizarre if this is how society operated for the foreseeable future. I tend to think a wearable device is coming soon.

Here’s What Retirement With Less Than $1 Million Looks Like in America

Minimum entropy for maximal taste

Flight is interesting because it’s so useful that it evolved at least 4 separate times. Pterosaurs, birds, insects, bats. Calling a pterosaur a dinosaur is an error of the same order of magnitude as saying that our species is a marsupial.

Is AI simply another huge leap in technology that directly affects social order?

Music

An Italo-Disco Classic.

It was recently updated a few years ago by another DJ. The new version is a lot cleaner and less amateurish, but loses something that the original had.