Join 📚 Josh Beckman's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
Nowadays, I try to find every way to not have to say things. If I can show it, perfect. It's better storytelling if I don't go through the process of telling you how I feel all the time.
Will the Next Scorsese Shoot With an iPhone? | Ft. Ryan Ng
Digital Spaghetti
This is one of the main things that happens in finance. It describes how companies work — they issue debt and equity, etc. — and your mortgage, and banks. In its purest form, where you just have some set of cash flows and you slice them up into junior and senior claims, it is often called “securitization,” or “structured finance.”
Money Stuff: Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings
Matt Levine
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
[...]
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
wikipedia.org
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise