Post-typhoon edition
Well, that was exciting. Wasn’t really expecting the typhoon to dump quite that much water on Miyagi.
Fortunately we live on the third floor and have very robust windows. One of the areas they kept showing on TV (where a river burst its banks and flooded a bunch of houses and manshons) is just a couple of kilometers from us though.
Hope everyone wasn’t too adversely affected this time. Might be taking a look at our disaster prep just to make sure we can cope in the future.
This week’s links
- I love the ‘spending money…’ quote near the end of this one: Early Retirement Extreme: The ten-year update
- Good (long) read: Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World
- This is great: Back and forth between super-hot and super-cold
- We experienced this after 3-11: When disaster strikes in the ‘cashless’ era, there’s no substitute for old-fashioned money
- Read this before the next stock crash: The Strength To Hold
- Interesting question: Where we do and don’t want automation
- These are great this week: What we’re reading
- I am a big fan of buying fewer better quality things (video): How to recognize poor vs. good quality in clothes (in 5 points)
- I wonder what I am avoiding: Cross the Gap Before It Grows
- How to measure it? Life is short
- Spend some money now or suffer enormous consequences later: Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
- Interesting. Found the terminology a bit confusing: A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity (Or The Ultimate Guide to Russian Roulette)
- I wonder if we’ll see something similar with the New Green Deals being mooted around the place: World War II: The Economic Anomaly
- Some of these seem promising: 50 ways to be ridiculously generous — and feel ridiculously good
- Wonder if we’ll see new investment products: Firms ignoring climate crisis will go bankrupt, says Mark Carney
- Fantastic documentary from Abroad in Japan (video): Inside Fukushima: What Happened After the Nuclear Disaster?
This week’s books
- A Study in Emerald, by Neil Gaiman. Nice (short) graphic novel: Sherlock Holmes in a Cthulhu-type setting. Loved the twist.
- Outer Order, Inner Calm, by Gretchen Rubin. Wasn’t expecting much from this, but it’s really good! Basically Marie Kondo, but more practical and less weird. Very much recommended if you need some help tidying up 🙂
#13 is particularly interesting.
Piketty comes to the same conclusion in his book “Capital in the 21st century”.
The decades that followed WW2 were indeed an anomaly in term of GDP growth and Work income Vs capital income ratio (that drives inequalities).
It seems that the trend is back toward more inequalities and the importance of capital.
This makes places like retirejapan more important than ever!