Welcome to the weekend,
Here is the best from around the Internet:
“Be careful what you let become critical to you.” A gem from one of the most important things I’ve read this week, Paul Graham’s “The Top Idea in Your Head”.
Economics professor Bryan Caplan writes misinformation wouldn’t be nearly so big a problem if people were less irrational. Prof. Tyler Cowen thinks the explosion of memes is driving this irrationality. I realize they are all over social media, but are people honestly getting their updates on world events – their news – from memes?
How a Magazine Called Amerika Helped End the Cold War.
Seven notes on Anna Wintour’s leadership style. I have the new biography which this is based on, and shall write follow up with my own thoughts. At the moment I’m most interested in how Wintour and Coco Chanel seem to have “old fashioned” leadership styles, but is that more brutal flavor of leadership becoming less tolerable and less common?
Stripe founder Patrick Collison with three tips for getting more out of books. Longtime readers here will find some things we’ve discussed before, but Collison did have some ideas I hadn’t considered before, as well.
Currently reading: Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Enjoy your weekend.
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