Welcome to the weekend,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
A monastery in Hungary races the clock to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation.
“Sabbath hard and go home.” This is a thoughtful piece on the wisdom of observing the Sabbath I wish I’d read months ago before writing my own piece on the topic.
Iceland’s switch to a 36-hour work week, first begun in 2019, has been a success.
What were newsletter writers in the sixteenth century paid? (The original Substack writers, if you will.)
What Jane Austen’s Persuasion, my favorite of her novels after Pride and Prejudice, can teach you about growing up.
Currently reading: Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini
Image: A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase on a Ledge with further Flowers, Shells and a Butterfly, Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder. ca. 1610.
