Twitter...

I have deactivated my Twitter account. Looking over my old tweets, little of value will be lost.

There are a few quotes and references to books that I'm saving here...

In 2011 I read three books about Charlie Munger... Seeking Wisdom, Poor Charlie's Almanack & Munger's Worldy Wisdom

2011, I read "A Theory of Everything" by Stephen Hawking. 

2011-- Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

2012-- Quote from Salon... "Capitalism involves for basic principles... Absolute responsibility for anything and everything that happens to  your company, equal justice under the law, compensation based on the real value created for society, and competition which involves failure and what is often called creative destruction."

2012-- Quotes from... The Antidote

A Gentleman in Moscow

By Amor Towles. 

A fantastic novel about a man who spends decades under house arrest at a hotel in Moscow.

"If a man does not master his circumstances, he is bound to be mastered by them."

"Imagining what might happen if one's circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness."

"For the times do, in fact, change. They change relentlessly. Inevitably. Inventively. And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns... but all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness."

"By their nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration-- and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour."

"For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim."

"The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness."

"It is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love."

The Guest Cat

By Takashi Hirade

A pleasant, warm blanket of a book, about a couple who befriend a neighbors cat when it begins visiting their home. It hits upon the beauty, joy and sorrow of getting to know an animal. Animals have their own lives. They will live and they will die.

40 Songs, One Story

By Bono.

I'm enjoying Bono's Autobiography. It's got me relistening to U2's old music. At one point Bono states that U2 originally wrote their owns songs because they weren't good enough to play others. Their song writing style was meant to showcase what they could do and avoid what they couldn't. Two cord guitar riffs instead of three. Over their first four albums, you literally hear the band become better musicians.