Wizard of Waterloo 🤵

Reading Proust and shaking my head so the other spa goers know I’m not a sicko that stuck in the past and obsessed with a courtesan called Odette. In search of lost Time

The reading habits of an autistic man

@HighyieldHarry Buffett jnr

I like how Bill Ackman's whole thing now is just buying Mag 7 names that have traded off.

Keir Starmer and James O’Brien’s Therapy Hour after Wes Streeting’s resignation @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting

@TonyLapidus @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting Legend 🤣

I think about this all the time.

@stephenRB4 @BoylanRoger Classic 🤣🤣

@BoylanRoger Looks like he’s just read Ulysses

James Joyce graduating from University College, Dublin, 1902.

now tell him that the ice cream machine is broken

What the hell has Cramer said ? $RKLB $NVDA

Will the scene at Madame Villeparisis’s tea party salon ever end in the Guermantes Way?

@jmrphy @DnlYn2892212345 Can you see into their mind to know they are lying about enjoying them? 🤣

@DnlYn2892212345 most people who post about reading the classics are lying—they find them tedious but won't admit it because there's social capital in pretending to be the type of person who loves Homer

The Great Books trend of the past 5 years has been a total catastrophe. The simple fact is that Plutarch and Homer and Virgil et al. do have radical insights buried in there, but at the same time most of these books are truly boring and lame and most people pretend to like them, cannot really digest anything, and get absolutely nothing from them! The trend is overwhelmingly powered by these books' aspirational quality; it's like a luxury heritage brand that conveniently only costs $15 a pop. The people on social media who've made brands around how great all these books are, often they are trying to *express* something about *themselves*, which is nice, but does not change how lame and boring the lion's share of these books are! You don't have to pretend to love them! If you're teaching undergrads that's great, or doing real research, fine. But this in no way means that everyone should read these books; it does not even mean that the smartest and most educated adults today need to read these books. The bits of radical alpha in them are great to find, explore, and write about if you are in the .01% of people who are called to do such things, but there is really zero reason why anybody else should read any of these books. Frankly, many of these authors are even somewhat primitive and infantile compared to the best thinkers of modernity. Plato and Aristotle have tons of provocative alpha worth getting, but also they were retarded on many topics, especially religion. The Romans were even worse in many ways. But all of this gets shrouded in the cult of Great Books. There have never been more people professing to love the Great Books, and mass public culture has never been lower brow than it is today. A ton of larping and precious little education, virtually zero novel insight, has come out of this movement.

Perfectly sums up the ads that UK newspapers have online and they wonder why no one reads them anymore.

Keep the page perfectly still, then the exact moment he's about to tap the screen, load an ad and shift everything down half an inch.

Tell Jim Cramer to tell the faithful that Rocket Lab is a future $1 trillion company $RKLB

The median voter thinks the NHS has a 34% profit margin

We have blast off $RKLB $NVDA these leviathans bursting through the surface at will and devouring an Ahab a day

Are you Moby dick or War and Peace or whatever the last one of the two you read ? Melville a monstrous writer on second reading. Please, no one compare Blood Meridian or Huck Fin with Melv

“He’s finally saved up some money. Make all of his appliances fail simultaneously.”

“Tell him to enter the password he knows is correct. Inform him it is incorrect. Invite him to reset it. Watch as he enters the password he believed it to be all along. Then tell him he cannot use it… because it is his current password.”

Is Dave Smith not sick of the sound of his own voice yet? Amazing dedication to speaking nonsense. Similar my dedication to these ridiculous posts