Samuel Johnson on his Dictionary
In the book of prefaces I’m reading right now, this one by Samuel Johnson, in the preface to his dictionary, made me think of my
In the book of prefaces I’m reading right now, this one by Samuel Johnson, in the preface to his dictionary, made me think of my
On my drives to and from work, I listen to podcasts. Most of the time, I try to use the time to expand my knowledge
I have been listening to a bunch of round table discussions, with panelists on both sides, about Critical Race Theory, because I want to hear
So I found out about this woman on twitter. I think twitter is generally dangerous as a platform specifically because it only supports ‘bites’ of
I was listening to some more of the Darkhorse podcast discussion between brothers Bret and Eric Weinstein, about Fundamental Truth, and How to Think About
So I was listening to a podcast, Fundamental Truth and How to Think About It. It was a discussion between brothers Eric and Bret Weinstein.
So, the current volume of the Harvard Classics series is Famous Prefaces. I had wondered why bother with ‘prefaces’ to works. It is explained like
I was having a conversation the other day about consumerism. One of the things the other person brought up was the desire for something new.
I thought it might be fun to walk through a few of the apocalypses that were supposed to have happened since I was a kid.
So, I went to Catalina earlier this month, and while we were there, the guides took a pic of my wife and me on the
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.