The Monday Read

Too Busy to Eat Edition

This is rare for me (normally I make sure I eat too well). This week though, I was too busy to eat on several days. It was not a pleasant experience.

The silver lining is that I lost some weight! But still, hopefully things will turn around soon. Working on that.

The Forum

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This week’s books

More Reacher this week: The Affair (not bad) and A Wanted Man (also not bad). At this rate I’ll finish the series in May and move on to something else 😉

I also read this classic old Stephen King story (but be warned, it will stay with you): The Jaunt

This week’s item

Very minor, but this USB A and USB C 128GB memory stick blew me away with how small and useful it is. It’s on my keyring now.

This week’s links

1. Feeling better about my procrastination now: The Procrastinating Caveman: What Human Evolution Teaches Us About Why We Put Off Work and How to Stop
2. Really interesting video: A BILLION Dollars to Beer Brewer | The Curious Case of Kip Fulks
3. Where does fire come from: Richard Feynman Fire
4. This seems to be contradicted by one of my favourite quotes, “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”, but they are both valid: You Don’t Need a Promise, You Need a Plan
5. This is something I think about since KEPCO built a coal plant down the road from us: WHO says 99% of world’s population breathes poor-quality air
6. This was a fascinating read (how does this guy write so well?): Dictator Book Club: Xi Jinping
7. Another reason to avoid the news: Safer, Yet More Afraid Than Ever
8. What kind of generational choices are you making? Ancestors, Luck, and Descendants
9. The low yen again: Flurry of asset sales in Japan as firms hit by Covid-19 shore up books
10. Just use Wise, dude: My Dad just wanted to send me a wedding gift…
11. This is absolute gold (blueprint for RJ in the future?): 9 Passive Income Ideas
12. It’s always a good time to get ready for the future: How to Prepare for a Recession
13. This blog by a Japan resident is interesting: Risk Parity Chronicles
14. Fascinating (his Twitter is good too!): How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
15. Some of these are really good: 33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33
16. Concise book review by Our Man: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
17. Sean finally made it back: Flight Paths to Home

What do you think? Anything interesting in there?

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