Weekly JOFO — No. 32, 2020

| 11 Aug 2020 min read

Every week I found things worth sharing. If you know what I’m like, you might like these things too.


Financial security

Time for Thinking — A memo by Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital (pdf)

Howard Marks has a knack for saying “we don’t know” for many many memos. In this memo, he was bullish about the state of the market for a change.

Market is moving

Caring for others

The Worst Epidemic — A conversation between Sam Harris & Gabriel J.X. Dance (podcast)

A glimpse of how online child abuse issue has become worse in the recent Covid time.

Sam Harris


Wisdom

What It Means to Be Human — A conversation between Krista Tippett & Jane Goodall (podcast)

Science needs more empathy. Before Jane Goodall befriended the chimps, humans thought we were the only ones who make tools. We weren’t special then, we’re not special now.

To understand

Meaning of Life — A catalogue of meaning you can choose from (book)

Asking about the meaning of life often brings existential dread. It doesn’t really matter what you choose, as long as you pick one to execute. This book gives you a wide range of sources of meaning, including ones you never thought of like from clothing (I kid you not).


What’s JOFO?

JOFO is the Joy of Finding things Out.