August 2022

Posted on August 1, 2022

😀 Updates since last month

Updated: August 1, 2022

📗 Book I’m currently reading

📕 Book I finished reading last month

🎸 Music I’ve been listening to

🎧 Podcast episodes I thought were interesting

🎥 Videos I thought were worth watching

Quote I’ve been thinking about



When we say that our lives are short; short compared to what?

Certainly short compared to the life of a hypothetical immortal being.  But it might make more sense to compare our lives, not to a hypothetical immortal being – but to all the countless hypothetical people who never got to be born in the first place. From that perspective, it’s not really cruel that our lives aren’t longer – rather it’s a staggering, stupendous bonus that we get any time on the planet as conscious creatures at all.

– Oliver Burkeman on the Making Sense podcast