Weekend Reading: Notes Meta Layer, PG, and the Trump Era
September 5, 2020 • #đź“ť A Meta-Layer for Notes
Julian Lehr raises an interesting idea on taking notes: the importance of spatial context.
đź’¬ PR Interviews Paul Graham
Antonio Garcia-Martinez’s newsletter kicks off with an interview with Paul Graham.
🏛 The Trump Era Sucks and Needs to Be Over
Matt Taibbi is always good for cutting to the chase.
Donald Trump is so unlike most people, and so especially unlike anyone raised under a conventional moral framework, that he’s perpetually misdiagnosed. The words we see slapped on him most often, like “fascist” and “authoritarian,” nowhere near describe what he really is, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. It’s been proven across four years that Trump lacks the attention span or ambition required to implement a true dictatorial regime. He might not have a moral problem with the idea, but two minutes into the plan he’d leave the room, phone in hand, to throw on a robe and watch himself on Fox and Friends over a cheeseburger.
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