Weekend Reading

Writing worth reading - 4th/5th June 2022

• Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege by By John Eligon and Lynsey Chutel

  • “Mr. Mashudu was killed in a car accident in 1987, and Mr. Ranwashe said he remembered Mr. Musk being one of only a handful of white people who attended the funeral in the family’s rural village. ‘It was unheard of during that time,’ he said.”

• A Few Short Stories by Morgan Housel

  • “There’s a powerful urge to think risk is something that happens to other people. Other people get unlucky, other people make dumb decisions, other people get swayed by the seduction of greed and fear. But you? Me? No, never us ...”

• A Guide to NFT Twitter Terminology by Punk6529

  • “Liquidity: Available ETH to buy JPGs. This is an impossible state of being. Any available ETH converts into JPGs immediately so everyone is in a state of perpetual illiquidity ...”

• The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

  • “The results showed that some large metropolitan areas give kids an edge. They get a better education. They earn more money: The best cities can increase a child’s future income by about 12 percent. They found that the five best metropolitan areas are ...”

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