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"What could be more important to understand than biological energy? Thought, growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of biological energy." — Ray Peat, PhD By Danny Roddy · Over 4,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmickaO7ur7OnZuyZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonw%3D

15 years ago today, Wes Anderson released The Darjeeling Limited (available to stream on Hulu) into the world. Within the familiar setup of forced family fun between the Whitman brothers — Owen Wilson’s Francis, Adrien Brody’s Peter, Jason Schwartzman’s Jack — Anderson portrays and dissects the complexities of familial interactions. The brotherly bonding, or lack thereof, is raw and real in a way the filmmaker’s work rarely is. And perhaps most crucially, the frequently self-contained artist opens his film outward and invites us to see how the Whitman family’s journey has resonance for the larger human family.

Building products across India, SE Asia and Europe, I have first-hand witnessed the contribution and impact of Marty Cagan’s work on the product world. Once in many decades, someone brings a near absolute clarity on craftsmanship of a field and Marty Cagan brought that moment to the product world through his famous book INSPIRED and his other works. By now, most of us who have read Marty’s works know (by heart) that Product Manager is fully responsible for the value (Will customers find value in the product?

While Chandler’s news rocked much of the Evangelical world, there is a great deal that is being missed, dismissed or overlooked. Spiritual and leadership abuse can be very hard to spot because the exact nature of it is so insidious. While many people chose to see a tearful and heartfelt apology from a “broken” man, the truth is, it was a very elaborate and carefully planned show that I believe was put on with one very disturbing aim: to keep the money train rolling.

And they are starting to listen to your audio book. They are up to the Green Book and traveling down South. R. was there during your presentation at UCSD. Yeah, she remembers you talking about the Green Book and traveling down South but there was no punch line, no racial horror. There was an expectation and people did not get the horror. — Morning Conversation with my Wife In my life and for the most part, there has been no story arc of racial horror.

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World." It was a poet who said that, exercising occupational license. Some sage, it may have been I, declared in similar vein: "I don't care who writes a nation's laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economic textbooks." The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner's tabula rasa at its most impressionable state. The opening paragraph in Paul Samuelson's Foreword to The Principles of economics course: a handbook for instructors (Saunders and Walstad 1990, p.

The predicted high that day was 72. We wanted to be outside. We meant to spend the afternoon at Bayou Sauvage, home to the American Wigeon, the Short-billed Dowitcher and few unpopular mammals, including nutrias and feral hogs. Newbie Orleans, having paid a previous visit to the reserve, suggested the idea. The mapping app routed us in a funny loop-de-loop down the highway; we blew past Bayou Sauvage without realizing it.

“This is the West. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” —The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Old West had already become legend even before it was done being history. Even as the frontier was closing down, traveling exhibitions such as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show brought the legends of the west to millions of Americans. Bill Cody’s troupe, which featured real-life legends such as Chief Sitting Bull and Annie Oakley, even performed for Queen Victoria in London.

Artwork: Drew CooksonIn Santa Rosa, California, you’ll find a Peanuts museum with a thorough documentation of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. The exhibits cover more than fifty years of his career and include obsessive tributes such as a recreation of his study or a collage of thousands of strips dedicated to Charlie Brown’s famous football fumble. Maybe the meaning was about being humble. I don’t know. I don’t care about Peanuts.