17 Mar 23 Monday Briefing
Hot stinking mess (no, not the post-St Paddy's Day cleanups)
News Roundup
Being declared persona non grata by the US seems to be a badge of honour nowadays, my mother is asking me to check if I need a measles booster for my upcoming travels to the US (seriously wtf), Starmer is stirring a hornet’s nest when it comes to benefits, and honestly, almost everything else in the world of geopolitics seems to be a hot stinking mess so I’ll leave it for a week.
Watch/Scroll
Commodification of spirituality is but another form of colonisation.
I’m actually playing around with DeepSeek for Chinese divination such as bazi and qimen dunjia. h/t
Read
One of the better-written profiles of a modern American dragon slayer.
What can the rise and fall of the Hanseatic League teach us about the constraints and affordances of maritime-heavy cooperation, and why is the west still so ideologically in thrall to the idea of hegemony or bust?
What does hypercuriosity have to do with ADHD, and could it be an evolutionarily adaptive trait?
Ponder
The world’s pre-eminent thought leader on decision-making made the ultimate decision one could ever make about their own life… leaving me with more questions than answers, really, about the epistemology of it all.