Weekly Highlights 8

A weekly round-up of things I found interesting, fun or useful.

📚 Books

“Don’t be so unimaginative as to ask the future to tell you what you ought to know today.”

- Seymour Hicks

“Do you ask what is the limit of wealth? Having what one needs, first of all; then, having enough.”

- Seneca, Letter 2

“So you have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose.”

- Poor Charlies Almanack

📜 Articles

Paul Graham is an essayist, author and investor concerned with computer science, entrepreneurship and self-help. He’s famed for his writing style and this post helps break it down for those interested.

Paul Graham's plain rhetoric

🎧 Podcasts

Dr Andy Galpin features on The Diary of a CEO with his extensive knowledge of muscle building. Listen to this and you’ll almost be certain to have the body of your dreams for the summer.

*It’s actually probably too late but you’ll know better for next year.

❓Question

1. Is happiness tangible or intangible? Is it many smalls things or is one thing? Is happiness the absence of things?

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