"Mindful attention is the trick that underlies many of the other tricks. It is a call to attend to the inner world—and thus also to the outer world, for uncontrolled emotion blurs reality as tears blur a view. Anyone who clears their vision and lives in full awareness of the world as it is, Seneca says, can never be bored with life."-Sarah Bakewell (via her book How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer)
Let Go of Self-Justification (LINK)
Video session from the Grant's Conference with John C. Bogle and Steven Bregman debating the Department of Labor’s new Fiduciary Rule (LINK)
Stock Market Valuations and Hamburgers (LINK)
Invest Like the Best podcast: The Art of Tracking, with Boyd Varty (LINK)
This week’s episode is the most unique to date. My guest is Boyd Varty, who grew up in the South African Bush, living among and tracking wild leopards. The main theme of our conversation is tracking, and how the same strategy for pursuing animals in the wild can be applied to all aspects of our lives. Boyd’s family has been tracking animals for four generations, and he is bringing what they have learned to a larger audience around the world.Seneca On Leisure (LINK)
500 years ago, a huge multi-star collision in Orion triggered a ridiculously powerful cosmic explosion (LINK)