Of Note

Volume XI

A recurring listicle; reads I loved to read.

• Michael Carney, How Motif helped two 11-year-olds beat Ivy League MBAs in an investing contest
• Dylan Walsh, The Crimes of Children
• Mrs. Frugalwoods, Strategic Luxury: The Difference Between Frugality And Miserliness
  • I’m a super devoted reader-because I struggle with this and they identify these points so specifically:
    “Once Mr. FW and I taught ourselves to strip away all of the external reasons why we were spending money–to impress others, to keep up with our friends’ spending, to follow someone else’s advice, to adhere to cultural norms–we concluded there’s very little we need to buy in order to live our version of the good life.” *
• Andrew Kahn and Chris Kirk, What It’s Like to Be Black in the Criminal Justice System
• Michael and Robert Meerpol, The Meeropol Brothers: Exonerate Our Mother, Ethel Rosenberg
• Kiran Ghandi, Sisterhood, blood and boobs at the London Marathon
• Karen Valby, How Princess Reema Is Opening Doors For Women In Saudi Arabia
  
• Julie Beck, Life’s Stories
• Homegrown, 20 Eye-Opening Pictures Of Toilets Around The World
• Lexi Mainland, 20 Surprising Things About Parenting in Kenya
  • “President Obama visited Kenya this summer, and in his speech, he talked about the treatment of women and girls in Kenya, and about the fact that some Kenyan girls are not sent to school. He encouraged Kenyans to leave behind their traditions that treat women and girls as second class citizens, saying, “Any nation that fails to educate its girls or employ its women… is doomed to fall behind in a global economy.” * (Thanks, Obama!)
• (The Onion) New Roommate Bestows Apartment With Unexpected Windfall Of End Tables
• Bahar Gholipour, What Can Herpes Do to Your Brain?
• Tim Brown, The Little Book of IDEO: Values
• The Space Within (image credit: Adam Simpson)
• Alexander Alter, Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief

Image source my own.

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