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October 4, 2020
Welcome to End Notes, a (mostly) weekly newsletter with curated reading recommendations and a recap of the new posts on E2B. Below you'll find high-quality stories and articles with long shelf-lives that rise above the rest of what I've read.
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In some personal news, I moved last week, which helps to explain the lack of activity on the site. With that behind me you can expect new posts with increased frequency going forward. Hope you enjoy!
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New Blog Posts on Eric's Two Books
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Wandering in the woods and finding a reminder for how to live life.
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Stories Worth Sharing
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Life Lessons
Stay in the Game
Albert Bridge Capital blog | Published June 17, 2019 | Short read
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"He chose a destination a lot of rudderless kids like to visit. It might as well have been Goa, Tulum, Koh Tao or Maui, but he chose Costa Rica. A friend of his, a good guy, was backpacking there, and invited him to come. I told Max we’d cover the first week, but if he wanted to stay longer, he had to get a job and support himself. We honestly didn’t know what to expect, but it felt like a last shot for him."
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The Crime Beat
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"The estimated 250,000 guns smuggled into Mexico every year are only a fraction of the millions sold annually in America, but the black market has an outsize impact on the southern border, where gun stores are concentrated. A 2013 University of San Diego study found that nearly half of all gun stores in the United States would go out of business were it not for the sales boost provided by the carnage in Mexico. “It gives you some idea of the gravitational pull,” says Topher McDougal, the study’s lead author."
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My Country 'Tis of Thee (stories about America)
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Chris Arnade | Published August 7, 2019 | Short read
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"I keep thinking I am missing something and I keep feeling awful for thinking that. We all want pat answers to explain people’s situations. We want to look at someone who society says has failed and we want to assign it to drugs, stupidity, deviance, or laziness. It is simpler that way. We rarely want to assign it to luck, chance, a lack of proper information, a series of benign choices that spins negative, or accidents beyond our control. Success is easier to live with if it comes with an explanation that involves morality."
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Animal Spirits (on the markets and the economy)
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Epsilon Theory | Published August 26, 2020 | Short read
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"If there is a lesson here, it is this: there is a certain class of games for which winning the game largely becomes a function of how good you are at exploiting the inability of the game’s mechanics to properly model edge cases and extreme behaviors, and how quickly you realize that other players are executing this strategy."
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