A week ago my buddy had his airpods stolen out of his backpack while he was paddleboarding and they just showed up in Peru.

Spending the weekend in rural Idaho with my oldest friends from high school and college. Fishing, swimming, cooking good food. I'm reading Mishima and Herodotus. I'd like to do a thread on John Wesley Powell soon. I hope everyone is maximizing these last summer weekends.

My advice to my friends is to buy a house in the best neighborhood they can afford. But what is the "best" neighborhood? 1. The best heuristic I have is to look for neighborhoods where people are tearing down old houses and building new. Generally, land costs are between 25%

I love the American West

Held open the door at 7/11 for an old lady with a cane and she said "thank you dear".

In the world before the state monopoly on violence, drama between men could mean getting killed. We evolved to brush off the daily slights.

I haven't done this in awhile and I have some free time this weekend - post a picture that you took and I'll see if I can geolocate it.

When I build a space, this is the kind of reality I’m aiming for. And staple reading for any young man entering the design/build world, btw.

The assertion that Lincoln was gay was thoroughly discredited by Goodwin in Team of Rivals. Given how widely read her book was, it's also more likely than not that the writer got the idea from this exact passage and decided to plow ahead anyways for ideological reasons.