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November 7, 2020
Welcome to End Notes, a (soon to be) weekly newsletter with curated reading recommendations and a recap of the new posts on E2B. Below you'll find high-quality stories with long shelf-lives that rise above the rest of what I've read.
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"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons."
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Definitely worth checking it out if you're in the market for a fast-moving intergalactic adventure story. And as a reminder you can keep track of what else I'm reading and watching on my Consumption Calendar which goes back to mid-July.
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New Posts on Eric's Two Books
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My first original essay covers podcasts, friendship, and how we choose to allocate our time.
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Stories Worth Sharing
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Fine Wines
Albert E.N. Gray | Published in 1940 | Medium read
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"If the secret of success lies in forming the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do, let's start the boiling-down process by determining what are the things that failures don't like to do. The things that failures don't like to do are the very things that you and I
and other human beings, including successful men, naturally don't like to do. In other words, we've got to realize right from the start that success is something which is achieved by the minority of men, and is therefore unnatural and not to be achieved by following our natural likes and dislikes nor by being guided by our natural preferences and prejudices."
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The Sporting Beat
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The New Yorker | Published in June 2019 | Long read
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"In 2004, when Pinto was fifteen, his team, F.C. Porto, won the Champions League, led by a brash, exacting coach named José Mourinho. Pinto was ecstatic. “He came very happy to class,” Falcão recalled. But most of the time he was not there. Pinto’s father often apologized for his son’s poor attendance. “What can a father do with a teen-ager who passes all the night with the computer?” Falcão said. Pinto digitized the records of the school library. When I asked Falcão whether he agreed with Pinto’s description of himself as a normal computer user, he said, “No,” and then repeated the word eight times."
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Stuff You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know
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The Atlantic | Published in June 2019 | Long read
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"In truth, a lot can now be known with certainty about the fate of MH370. First, the disappearance was an intentional act. It is inconceivable that the known flight path, accompanied by radio and electronic silence, was caused by any combination of system failure and human error. Computer glitch, control-system collapse, squall lines, ice, lightning strike, bird strike, meteorite, volcanic ash, mechanical failure, sensor failure, instrument failure, radio failure, electrical failure, fire, smoke, explosive decompression, cargo explosion, pilot confusion, medical emergency, bomb, war, or act of God—none of these can explain the flight path."
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