Monday Links: 8

Back by…my demand, I suppose. This is sort of a micro-browser history bit of journalling.

The Seduction of Clarity: Found this in a HackerNews thread. Feelings of clarity and premature stopping.
Feast of C.S. Lewis: I was charmed by this. I was charmed. I’ll always appreciate Lewis, even if not in the same ways I once did.
Eric Adams Searches a Room: Not timely, not immediate, but a little nugget of joy I return to periodically.
Shannon’s Demon: I learned this. It makes a certain kind of sense and I consider myself above the average in terms of investment knowledge, but it was new for me.
Kessler Sisters obit: I ended up watching 50 plus year old nightclub sets because of this.
Haydar Haydar: I’ve been interested in Bektashi culture since the spring, found an album linked on the Smithsonian website, found it on Spotify, then have been off the races with it.
Squirrel Etymology: It links back to Greek, apparently, and shares a root with “shadow” in that language. This is one of those little nothing things that ended up being surprisingly interesting.
The Rain Beast: As far as I can tell, the story I’m familiar with is on the front page right now, but doesn’t have its own permalink. A friend from a local writer’s group wrote this and found an outlet.
Alton Brown Cooks: Nothing groundbreaking here, but it was just good to see a dude I used to enjoy talking about food now again in the present talking about food.
Can We Know the Universe?: Sagan’s subtitle here is better: “Reflections on a Grain of Salt.” I was on the hunt for encapsulated philosophy of science statements, and there are definitely parts of this that fit.