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Reading about Coronavirus all the time is getting me down, so I& #39;m going to try an experiment. Every day, for the next 15 days, I& #39;ll post an interesting non coronavirus read. These aren& #39;t necessarily recent: I& #39;ve collected these over the years.
Day 1: "Buddhist Economics: How to start prioritizing people over products and creativity over consumption." via @brainpicker https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/07/buddhist-economics-schumacher/">https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/0...
Day 2: I love this piece on how the escalator transformed spaces, public and private. What will bring about such changes in the future? Self-driving cars? Good, wide-reaching mass transit? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-escalator-forever-changed-our-sense-space-180972468/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovatio...
Day 3: In this time of travel restrictions and social distancing, it& #39;s worth remembering why we travel. One of my favorite authors @PicoIyer on travel: "We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves." https://www.salon.com/test/2000/03/18/why/">https://www.salon.com/test/2000...
Day 4: Another one on going places (this time: Tokyo). A lovely meditation on rushing, waiting and the weird signaling involved with long lines. https://www.afar.com/magazine/tokyos-long-lines-lead-to-magic-and-life-changing-ramen">https://www.afar.com/magazine/...
Day 5: A great piece by @udupendra on a noteworthy aspect of one of my favorite cities: Bangalore. I speak 4 1/4 languages. However, I too am guilty of learning hardly any Telugu after moving to Hyderabad. http://brownpaperbag.in/bangalore/intel/with-tongue-a-polyglot-is-the-most-bangalore-thing-ever/">https://brownpaperbag.in/bangalore...
Day 6: Re-reading "The Great Gatsby" with a grown-up lens. I see Gatsby as a quintessentially American creation, but this grown-up re-reading puts a fatalistic twist to it that makes you see the book and Jay Gatsby in an entirely different light. Read: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/jesmyn-ward-great-gatsby.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/1...
Day 7: We live in an age where just achieving isn& #39;t enough. Running isn& #39;t enough: running an ultra-marathon is where it& #39;s at. Hiking isn& #39;t enough: summit Mount Everest, or bust. What if there is a different way? https://hbr.org/2018/06/in-praise-of-extreme-moderation">https://hbr.org/2018/06/i...
Day 8: Since eating out is now verboten, some history on the food that most of us only eat in restaurants. Vice did a wonderful piece on the origins of Indian-Chinese cuisine: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/mgykeb/inside-the-birthplace-of-indian-chinese-cuisine">https://www.vice.com/en_in/art...
