- Just finished The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. If I had read this book eight years ago, I would be finishing a dissertation in a completely different field.
- Snagged a monograph called Depression and Philosophy by Robert Redeker from the library's New Books shelf, and loved it. Two lines stand out: "The illusion of being an individual is the fake nose of conformism" (37) and "[The massification of the human] constructs a flat human, the human without obscurity, whose wind-swollen vanity drives shamelessly the loud gondolas of tele-reality" (34).
- I biked yesterday. It was -30 or so with the wind chill. I fell in front of a blue mini as I turned off of Como onto the transit way. Humbling, but I was late, so picked myself up and pushed on. When I got to the center, I had to run my thumbs under warm water.
