Something Greater

Having a life purpose beyond the egoic Self can create meaning.

A. The transition from modernity to postmodernity has meant that a wide diversity of people have had transcendent life experiences in varied contexts. Psychologists have renewed their focus on this phenomena.

B. On the practice routines of a 3-year-old child chess prodigy. Chess has an incredible history that is worth learning about.

C. Hobart (Tasmania, Australia) is getting a new football stadium - which will devour community resources. The United States experience (and its impact on fiscal policy and municipal budgets) is illustrative.

D. Generative AI can lead some vulnerable people into psychotic states.

E. Whilst I enjoyed Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear escalation film A House of Dynamite (on Netflix), its critics are growing in their chorus. The Netflix film’s editing and sound design is still being closely studied.

F. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Institutions of Modern Capitalism, created by Associate Professor Jason Jackson (Google Scholar profile).

G. Forbes on Kalshi (prediction market) cofounder Luana Lopes.

H. Pershing Square Holding’s hedge fund manager Bill Ackman explains how finance works.

I. Dr Yaron Brook of the Peterson Academy on the morality and practice of finance.

J. A trailer for the upcoming film Marty Supreme.