The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
— David Graeber
What Was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? An interesting anaysis of the post-publishing life of Dave Eggers’s remarkable memoir.
The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions. Very interesting article on the decision by Daniel Kahneman to choose to end his own life in Switzerland. A nuanced yet unsettling piece.
An interesting article “Why nothing matters” on the perception of zero, absence and “nothingness”. Another recent connected short article – “Math puzzle: Imagine there’s no zero”.