Hey friends,
Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:
Our last Montaigne read-along post went live this week. Getting to the end was a slog but we did it.
The Zoom Q&A for the Montaigne read-along will be this week. Paid subscribers will receive details only, so if you’d like to support my work, and do fun things like jam out with other like minds about philosophy, consider upgrading to a paid subscription.
Interest in old books, and the “Great Books”, is seeing a surge in renewed interest. In addition to the excellent work of Johnathan Bi, the Free Press is now launching a podcast called Old School by Princeton professor Shilo Brooks. It’s really good.
It finally feels like Autumn in Pennsylvania and the leaves are just starting to turn different hues of yellow, orange, green and red. Here’s a beautiful poem about Autumn from author Emily Jungmin Yoon.
A wonderful article about how our brain builds perception from experience, not by measuring objective reality.
What it means to slow down and begin paying attention.
A new startup is building a wearable to help you understand your mind in real-time.
Our brains apparently turn down pain when survival instincts kick in.
Openness to experience, and to our full range of emotions, is step one in the three elements of a good life.
A new book by Conjecture Institute with a new approach to copyright, or copyleft as they call it:
![A page with text titled "Conjecture Institute" at the top. Below, text reads "This Book Has No Copyright" followed by additional text about the book, including "Not locked up behind "all rights reserved." More text mentions "You can do anything with this book," "Copy it," "Pirate it," and includes names Arjun Khemani and Logan Chipkin. At the bottom, text lists "Lords of the Cosmos" and publication details with ISBN numbers.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxyz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1abe4a93-3ded-4840-b669-0e1456fd5801_1206x1508.jpeg "A page with text titled "Conjecture Institute" at the top. Below, text reads "This Book Has No Copyright" followed by additional text about the book, including "Not locked up behind "all rights reserved." More text mentions "You can do anything with this book," "Copy it," "Pirate it," and includes names Arjun Khemani and Logan Chipkin. At the bottom, text lists "Lords of the Cosmos" and publication details with ISBN numbers.")
![A page with text titled "Conjecture Institute" at the top. Below, text reads "This Book Has No Copyright" followed by additional text about the book, including "Not locked up behind "all rights reserved." More text mentions "You can do anything with this book," "Copy it," "Pirate it," and includes names Arjun Khemani and Logan Chipkin. At the bottom, text lists "Lords of the Cosmos" and publication details with ISBN numbers.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxyz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1abe4a93-3ded-4840-b669-0e1456fd5801_1206x1508.jpeg "A page with text titled "Conjecture Institute" at the top. Below, text reads "This Book Has No Copyright" followed by additional text about the book, including "Not locked up behind "all rights reserved." More text mentions "You can do anything with this book," "Copy it," "Pirate it," and includes names Arjun Khemani and Logan Chipkin. At the bottom, text lists "Lords of the Cosmos" and publication details with ISBN numbers.")
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