People I (Mostly) Admire - #82: Is This the Future of High School? My initial reaction is to envy all of those children with this incredible opportunity. My more enlightened next feeling is excitement: to see what my children’s education looks like.

Honestly - The Holy Anarchy of Fun Walter Kirn’s essay about enjoying life again was phenomenal.

[Making Sense - #287: Why Wealth Matters]() Morgan Housel’s wisdom about the psychology of money and investing justified the two-hour running time. It’s all about compound interest, baby.

Cautionary Tales - Gladwell on Doctors’ Prescriptions, Carbon Copies, and the Opioid Crisis They played and discussed the recent episode of Revisionist History: In Triplicate. In states that required paper copies, doctors were reluctant to prescribe OxyContin.

The Fifth Column - #364: Rejecting Boris, Reeducating Macy, Ridiculous Gavin Matt’s eardrum woes sounded gruesome. Michael’s read of Boris wasn’t too absurd. I appreciated the nuanced analysis of how relatively uninvolved Trump remained in the culture wars.

Very Bad Wizards - #240: Evil Tamler and David did a D&D moral alignment test before talking about evil. I think it’s useful as a socially constructed concept but doesn’t say anything real about a distinction that lies in human psychology.

Lexicon Valley - You Are So Articulate. Really. John went through a small number of the ways we unconsciously process semantic meaning in English.