May 2022

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

Have you ever thought about what was the most impactful invention ever created?

I wrote about the case for air-conditioning. Air conditioning allowed major regions of the world to be developed today. Places like Singapore and Florida became rich productive places because of Air conditioning.

Weekend Reads

A big week in economic news. The crypto bubble popped. With inflation at 8 percent, real (inflation-adjusted) wage growth is not doing so hot right now. Ppl are feeling poorer, month to month.

Someone posted a humorous thread on Orson Welles talking trash to various actors, directors of his time. The thread is great but Orson was a bitter old man mad at everyone later in life.,

How Traffic Alters the Social Life of Streets. In his 1972 study, Donald Appleyard showed how traffic rates influence social interactions & friendships.

How much did slavery and cotton accelerate U.S. economic growth?The dominant narrative among a certain subset of the intelligentsia is that the wealth of the United States was caused by the usage of slaves, and that the US would have been a poorer country had it not been for slavery. Slavery did not lead to much economic growth.

Is ‘doomsday prepping’ going mainstream? Amid disease and shortages, preppers at the Homesteading and Prepping Summit near St. Augustine say they’re onto something.

Brian Frumps is an exterminator in Tampa Bay, Florida. He is being over worked by his company. He has decided to quit his job. Part 2 Here. 

Men are getting height increasing surgery to better compete in the dating market.

From the Archives

Transhumanism: I wrote about the modern phenomenon of increasing longevity, strength, youth and vitality into old age. It seems like nobody wants to get old and die anymore.

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