Hi Friends,
Greetings from Brussels!
For the last edition of 2022, I picked my favorite pieces, essays, books and quotes from this past year.
See you on the other side!
Florian
“A society that talks incessantly about ‘productivity’ but that hardly uses the word ‘resilience’ is going to become productive and not resilient.”
Donella Meadows
Favorite pieces
“When you realize how much progress humans can make during a lifetime in everything from economic growth to medical breakthroughs to stock market gains to social equality, you would think optimism would gain more attention than pessimism. And yet.”
Morgan Housel
Favorite essays
The tail end - Tim Urban
How to write - Paul Graham
Notes on “taste” - Brie Wolfson
Living like weasels - Annie Dillard
Long distance thinking - Simon Sarris
The art of maintenance - Stewart Brand
Routine maintenance - Meghan O’Gieblyn
“But although it is true that a unique event can sometimes change our lives completely, or leave its mark on us, it is not too much to say that, by and large, the overall character of our lives is given by those events which keep on recurring over and over again.”
Christopher Alexander
Favorite books
Doppler - Erlend Loe
When we cease to understand the world - Benjamin Labatut
Four thousand weeks: time management for mortals - Oliver Burkeman
“In the history of the world, most of the people who have ever lived either did not know how to write or, if they did, left no writing behind, which is among the reasons why the historical record is so maddeningly unfair. To write something down is to make a fossil record of a mind.”
Jill Lepore
Love the round up!! I've got my 1st Jan reading list here lol Brie's note on taste was also a favourite for me too :D