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The Power Broker - I can see why people might be fascinated to read about someone rising to power, but I could not stand about the misuse of this power with the sole purpose of catapulting himself forward. I am very well aware of the egotism and power-complexes that exists so I did not want to spend hours reading and getting reminded about it.

Wealth of Nations - Too much detailed information about grain prices and the like from the time where he wrote the book. It is difficult to follow and I had to stop. It is however a book I think I will give another try at some time, but then ruthlessly skip over the parts I find boring.

Funny thing is that first time I read Zen And The Art.. I also put it down and could not for the life of me finish it. 3-4 years later I picked it up again, finished it and loved it.

I have even read it fully a second time since then. Some books you have to be ready to read, so don't be afraid to put them down and leave them for at few years. The book does not change but you will.

I have Nextcloud set-up on a server from Hetzner and then I use Cryptomator to encrypt and store whatever I consider "sensitive".

I used to love photo-blogs. Not just single images like IG and the like, but just random photo-blogs where the people who took the pictures share a bit of thoughts/stories behind the pictures no matter how trivial. My biggest inspiration back in the day was probably Jon Olsson before he started video blogging instead.

So I have started doing so myself and really enjoy the process of putting them together and sharing just because it is the kind of content I like to consume myself.

If any of you have good recommendations on photo-blogs then please let me know. I will sure try some of the search-engines and discovery tools shared in this thread already.

And for shameless self-promotion here is a link to where I will post going forward: https://jesperreiche.com/category/photography/

Any good recommendations for learning to play poker? At some point I would like to learn.

Haha you have to help me here. Could you please help me understand what gopher is and NNTP? I do not know whether I should feel dumb, too young or too old for not knowing :)

Anecdotal but I am genuinely surprised at how bad YouTube is at recommending relevant videos. There is so much content there and I always end up having to look for things myself.

Seen from my perspective it seems way to "narrow-minded" in its selection. As only looking at "others watching this also watched this" not taking the content itself, length or anything else into the equation. I can see how that might lead people down rabbit holes and perhaps it is just me that has a strange aversion to the rabbits the algorithms are trying to feed me :)

I can also highly recommend https://standardebooks.org/ for free Ebooks of high quality.

That was a very good and thorough walk through of that book. I highly enjoyed it - so thanks a lot for sharing!

You do not seem like you want to change your mind - and that is fine. If you are doing a cost/benefit analysis, then you are doing it wrong. You mock western consumerism but radiate tells of "western overoptimization" attacking everything as a task that can be broken down to individual parts, prioritized and optimized. That is in my opinion a very reductionist way to go about your life.

Traveling the world can open your eyes to other ways of living a life. It can teach you something about yourself if you are open to it. It can teach you to be more confident and self-reliant.

You will likely dismiss this and if I wrote long explanations of what I learned myself you would come up with faster, better or more "local" ways to get the same outcome - and that is fine. You do you. Then I do me.

Totally agree.

I wonder if that is part of the reason for the high compensation numbers. I do not know how widespread "counter Facebook ethics" are among Engineers. I could imagine them being higher that elsewhere as it is a somewhat high-compensation segment, even outside of these monstrous FB-numbers.

Partially inspired by Francis Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" and this article, I really want to read more about the Japanese culture that keeps these shops alive for so long.

Does anyone have good recommendations for books on Japanese culture that I could put on my wish list for Christmas?

Thanks!

Thanks for the clarification.

Interesting to see whether this will work for the "last" part. I can understand why it works while cutting off smaller parts of a longer ship, but at some point I would expect the ship not to be heavy enough. At that point I would expect it to be lifted and turned by the chain instead.

But they probably already thought about that and I just missed it in my rapid skimming of the article.

That is probably because you look at it from too narrow a position. Yes, the public transport inside Oslo may be brilliant. That is very good for transporting people around who lives inside Oslo, but chances are that a lot of people cannot afford or want to live there. For probably each kilometer extra you move away from the city center, the difficulty using public transport increases exponentially. Once you get to 50-100km away from the city center, then your options look very bleak.

I live in Copenhagen myself, but I grew up 100km outside of Copenhagen. Using a car to go back and forth from there to Copenhagen takes approximately 1 hour each way. Using public transportation all the way takes closer to 2 hours. Using a combination takes 1h 30min on a good day.

Some people move out of cities because they want the countryside. But other people are forced to do so because of prices. Banning cars from cities seems to only think of people who lives inside it and not how difficult it will be for a lot of people already "taxed" with hour long commutes because of stupidly expensive housing combined with centralization of workplaces.

I only heard about this expedition after it was finished. I would have loved to follow their daily updates, but seems like too much work to go through them here afterwards.

Does anyone have a good idea about where news about this type of expeditions are shared up front? I searched to subreddits called something with "expedition" but no luck. So all ideas are welcome. Even more cool would of course be to join an expedition like this - but following one must be second best.

Wow! They are really really good! Thanks a lot for sharing. I had never heard of him before.

"With no legacy systems to maintain, and fewer old bugs to root out, their software is more robust and developers can spend more time on features that customers want."

If there is one area where new systems will have a hard time against the old, then it is robustness. To say that newly developed systems are more robust than old is quite the stretch. The sole act of being maintained long enough to be called "legacy" points towards robustness.

Debt: The first 5000 years

And then I have not yet read it myself, although I have it on the shelf, but others recommended it for the exact same question as yours:

Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky

I had this idea probably 5 years ago now and I am sure others had it before that. Everyone talked me out of it because paper is going away. But that just compounds the pain once you actually need it.

There are issues with regards to security when you transfer the files for printing, privacy issues on the content itself and then of course issues with regards to the quality of the printer and the printed material itself. But I actually still believe it would be possible to make a profitable company out of it.

Every company does not need to aim for unicorn status.

Direct messages - so private messages to and from

The time in itself is not bad. It could have been 10 hours of important reading for your study or whatever. So do not get hung up on numbers, that will only lead to negative double-bashing of yourself. I observed myself trying to avoid using the phone for obvious things like navigation and weather forecasts because I wanted by all means to reduce the screen time. That is as irrational as anything.

Focus on what you want to do instead and use the time on that. Start reading books, go for walks, dance, play an instrument whatever it is. Focus on that instead of narrow focus on screen time.

You are correct. I had a good poke around and ended up subscribing. Can you recommend any specific parts of it?

I have had the account for long, but deleted the app. But I actually just re-installed - so I will give them a look. Thanks for those recommendations as well!

Wow! That is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks a lot for that recommendation!

Thanks a lot for those. I especially like the last one.

That looked too interesting to pass. I signed up immediately for the print magazine delivered to my door, every quarter. Thanks a lot for mentioning that. I really look forward to seeing it in person!

Yes, even though I am a very active reader, I felt that I almost had a month worth of reading every week.

On the topic of The Economist. I have been a subscriber twice, but each time cancelled because I was endlessly behind on the huge number of quality articles.

I am however yet again considering subscription. But are there any other good physical magazines to consider? I have considered The New Yorker as well, but I need to research whether I can have that delivered to Denmark. But any other suggestions given that I really like in depth articles on diverse topics. Not necessarily latest news also just interesting long-form stories.