Hello there. I couldn’t get around to writing the Kable as usual this past weekend even though I’d curated a list of ten things to read. I thought I’d eventually do it, but I haven’t been able to. So here’s the list, without my usual commentary. Regular programming will be back this weekend.

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1. Tune In, Drop Out - about South Korea’s honjok culture, which is empowering and supporting people to step out of societal pressures and pursue their lives by themselves.

2. Economists on the Run (soft paywall) - “Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization:

It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would.”

3. ‘It’s a Superpower’: How Walking Makes Us Healthier, Happier and Brainier

4. Frog and Toad and Me - a touching account of what the Frog and Toad books mean to their (quite large) fan base.

5. Robinhood and How to Lose Money

6. The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty

7. How McKinsey Helps Companies Avoid Responsibility

8. Secrets of the Skyhook - I’m not a big basketball fan, but I enjoyed this essay about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s signature shot, the “skyhook”.

9. Just Too Efficient - A nice article from Tim Bray (of quitting Amazon fame) about how many of our modern systems are designed for maximum efficiency, at the cost of resilience, flexibility, and even humanity.

10. Can the pandemic help us fix our technology problem?