A few weeks ago, I received an email that began with “Your Settlement Payment”. Thinking it was spam, I reached for the delete key before remembering what it was for. Common in the United States, class actions are “a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented …
Although I had plenty of positive experiences, my general impression of primary and secondary education was unfavorable. Classes were frequently unchallenging, originality was punished, and my social ineptitude led to years of bullying. Sometime after I graduated from high school, I discovered Paul Graham’s Why Nerds are Unpopular. Suddenly, everything made sense. The essay was …
Every year, China celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the traditional Chinese calendar. For 2020, that’s June 25th – today! Originally a cultural holiday, it was accorded public holiday status in 2008. The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of …
In last week’s newsletter, I mentioned that today is both the beginning of a new week as well as a new month, suggesting that it would be a good opportunity to start a new habit or project. Thinking about potential habits and projects led me to wonder what I could do to make June 2020 …