Hey folks
Rough week - the kiddo just came home sick, and two days ago I lost an extended family member.
Loss has more dimensions than we assume, and I don't think we understand it until we are faced with it. I grew up in a large extended family, packed in a very small house - so even though I wasn't particularly close to them in the past decade, I lost chunks of the first decade of my life that I did spend with them in the same house.
The finds that helped me this week are about time, humanity and hope:
- ENERGY MAKES TIME tradeoffs between work, life, time, energy, responsibility, and art.
- TAIL END Instead of measuring your life in units of time, you can measure it in activities or events.
- HUMAN MATH Then there’s this notion of objectivity — of being sure that what is claimed is right, of feeling like you have an ultimate truth. But how can we know we’re being objective?
- LOOKING IN LIBRARIES This is a review of a book I've been waiting to read - but more importantly, while popular culture is in a doom cycle it's a testament to the skill needed to make kindness and good fortune compelling in a novel.
- QUEST FOR VACCINE Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it.
This weekend will be about finding oases of attention.
