The Monday Read

Yet Another Unexpected Event Edition

Aaand once again my life is flipped-turned upside down.

Instead of retiring it seems I’ll be going back to full-time work next month, working for a boss I can’t get away from (they live with me) as an eikaiwa teacher with a full schedule.

I’m going to be quite a lot busier than I have been in the last few years, but I will do my best to keep the site going and keep developing our offerings.

Don’t imagine I’ll be taking that trip to Europe in May either.

The Forum

The Forum is doing well (19,772 posts to date). Here are the latest active threads:

This week’s books

Still on the Reacher train: Persuader was a good one, The Enemy I am about 1/3 through. Also started reading Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss, about negotiating.

Ukraine

Vitaliy put together a page of Ukraine charities.

  1. This Money Stuff column is fantastic (subscribe by email to get them in your inbox): Russia’s Money is Gone
  2. The LPG mafia: Gas pains
  3. The latest Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter
  4. New post from Derek Sivers: Write plain text files
  5. The lack of accountability at these places disturbs me: The violent truth about immigration detention centers in Japan: Part 1 of 2, Part 2 of 2
  6. Enjoyed this write-up about Elon Musk and Russia (and Ukraine)
  7. I can’t imagine this film being any good: Francis Ford Coppola’s $100 Million Bet
  8. More Craig Mod (in podcast form): The sublime boredom of walking Japan
  9. Ray Dalio weighs in: The Changing World Order: Focusing on External Conflict and the Russia-Ukraine-NATO Situation
  10. And Morgan Housel: Surprise, Shock, and Uncertainty

What do you think? Anything interesting in there?

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7 Responses

  1. #4 – plain text files. Once when I had trouble opening some 90s-era files (old Mac/Claris formats), I discovered that OpenOffice–now LibreOffice–would work. (so if you ever need a ‘can opener’…)

  2. Thanks for the link to the list of Ukraine charities. It was, though, a bit bewildering for me due to the number and diversity of the charities listed.

    I wonder if anyone has a single good suggestion of a reliable charity to which someone living Japan could easily make a donation?