Opens Wins, RSS and openess.
The Lessons of History by W & A Durrant. “Western History” would be a more apt title. Good distillation, some parts have not aged well but overall a lot of food for thought. 4/5.
Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? I really do not understand why 1Password wants to push for this. I don’t think people buy 1Password for the 2FA support. Downgrading 2FA to 2SV is just not worth the “convenience”. The “fairly negligible amount of security” that may be “sacrificed” is not that negligible.
Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Editing. When you hear from the editor of the likes of Rushdie, Gardner, Bradbury, Naipaul, Lessing, Carre, Morrison etc., you shut up and read with bliss even if it is tangential to your area of interest.
School is not enough. Argues for vocational training and projects – “modern education endlessly ushers them towards an often farther and more abstract future—one so far away and abstract that some children become infected with the opposite of agency”.
The quiet lives, though, pass on soundlessly in the background. And yet those are the lives in our skin, guiding us from breakfast to bed. They’re the lives that have made us, that keep the world turning. (…) All around us are these lives — heads down and arms open — that ignore the siren call of flashy American individualism, of bright lights and center stage. I’m fine right here is the response from the edge of the room, and that contentment is downright subversive.
— Obituary For a Quiet Life, Jeremy B. Jones