Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 24th/25th June 2023
How To Be Good by Larissa MacFarquhar
“The philosopher Derek Parfit believes that neither of the people is you, but that this doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that you have ceased to exist, because what has happened to you is quite unlike ordinary death: in your relationship to the two new people there is everything that matters in ordinary survival—a continuity of memories and dispositions that will decay and change as they usually do. Most of us care about our future because it is ours—but this most fundamental human instinct is based on a mistake, Parfit believes. Personal identity is not what matters …”
That Orange Logo that opens doors. Our Y Combinator experience. by Dimitris Nikolaou
“Back then Moonshot concept was bare bones, not focused on sports, let alone Tennis. So what Sam was describing was quite close to what Youssef and I had in mind. You might think that it’s a stretch to think what Sam was referring to was close to what we had in mind, but Youssef and I literally thought Sam was inside our flat, talking to us. Founders paranoia? Perhaps. It was all we needed though to apply ...”
FOMO: The Worst Financial Trait by Morgan Housel
“Having no FOMO might be the most important investing skill. Being immune to the siren song of other people’s success – especially when that success is sudden, extreme, and caused by factors outside their control – is so powerful and important that it’s practically impossible to do well over time without it. When strategizing, Dwight Eisenhower used to quote Napoleon, who said a military genius is ‘the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.’ Same with money …”
Anthony Hopkins Remembers It All by Michael Schulman
“The script is so clever about thrusting the audience into these moments when the father doesn’t know where he is or who he’s talking to. There’s a devastating scene toward the beginning when the daughter, who was played by Olivia Colman in the first scene, suddenly reënters the apartment and is played by a different actress, Olivia Williams, and you see the certainty drain from the father’s face. Was there anything you had to do as an actor to establish some sense of what his reality was? …”
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