I’m making more of an effort to mindfully consume content and play around with it rather than mindlessly consume it. This is a place to record my summaries and reflections on the books, lectures, movies, papers, blog posts, and general content that I am consuming. I make no promises that these will be useful to anyone. On the off-chance reading these inspires some thoughts or recommendations for other media do reach out.
I listened to Derek Thompson’s podcast with Atlantic editor Yoni Appelbaum on his upcoming book Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. The discussion was fascinating: positing that the decline in American mobility is the most important social change in the last fifty years 1 and that it’s the fault of the progressive movement. I found it fascinating to learn how high mobility was in the past and in particular about “moving day” as a day where all of the leases 2 came up and everyone moved all at once while Europeans came over and spectated . Apparently it still happens in Quebec; I should go gawk or maybe market my enthusiastic if slightly clumsy moving skills. ...