Weekend Reads #424

A collection of cross-disciplinary thoughts, perspectives, and opinions

The Great Conversion - How Iran became Shia - Link Regime change is near impossible - Link

Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 - Link

Howard Marks - Repealing the Laws of Economics - Link

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing Deck - Link - Presentation

This post is about managing ADHD. It is divided into two sections: “Strategies” describes the high-level control system, “Tactics” is a list of micro-level improvements. To me, energy is less like a battery and more like voltage.- Link

Running water is a miracle — but the technology that brings it to us and takes the waste away is actually thousands of years old. - Link

Robert Macfarlane: The Most Beautiful Conversation About Language | How I Write - Link

Allure of Autarky: To be successful, political movements have to appeal to something fundamental in everyone’s nature. Our innate sense of the virtue of self-reliance is often the foundation stone on which they build. - Link