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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • The one podcast I listen to every week as it comes out is Lateral, a trivia show hosted by Tom Scott with rotating guests.

    Other than that, I have a thing for casual and conversational history podcasts, including:

    • The Lesser Bonapartes (old but gold, the full backlog’s only available on spotify under the title ‘From the desk of Glen’)
    • Dead Ideas
    • Some ‘leader ranking’ podcasts with the same formula: Rex Factor (British monarchs), Totalus Rankium (Roman Emperors and then American Presidents) and Pontifacts (Popes)










  • Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy is a great little collection of some central texts, with minimal but helpful commentary. Some, like the Analects and the Daodejing, are short enough to be printed in full, and others have selections.

    For Indian philosophy, I don’t have any immediate recommendations. I’ve heard good things about Edward Conze’s books on the history of Buddhism, but have never read them myself. Odds are they might be a bit dated, but still a strong introduction.

    For a general overview, Peter Adamson’s podcast and book series History of Philosophy Without any Gaps is usually great, and his strong suit is in medieval islamic thought.







  • I second the recommendation of Go. I’m very much a beginner, but the subtlety and variety of every game kind of ruined chess for me.

    Some more recommendations of learning or beginner resources:

    Go Magic has a lot of really in depth video and interactive tutorials. There’s a paid plan, but the beginner and early intermediate courses are free and way more thorough than anything else online right now.

    The Conquest of Go is a great little game on steam that has its own tutorials and a campaign mode with scaling difficulty. It’s my favorite way to play against bots, but you can also connect your OGS account and play online through there.