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# five friday finds: time, tail end, libraries
- URL: https://flyways.snowbird.global/five-friday-finds-time-tail-end-libraries/
- Published: 2023-09-08T07:38:55.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-05T05:52:26.000Z
- Author: Gautam Ramdurai
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1730785798323, #Import 2024-11-05 13:50

Hey folks

Rough week - the kiddo just came home sick, and two days ago I lost an extended family member. 

Loss has more dimensions than we assume, and I don't think we understand it until we are faced with it. I grew up in a large extended family, packed in a very small house - so even though I wasn't particularly close to them in the past decade, I lost chunks of the first decade of my life that I **did** spend with them in the same house. 

The finds that helped me this week are about time, humanity and hope:

1. [**ENERGY MAKES TIME**](https://everythingchanges.us/blog/energy-makes-time/?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) tradeoffs between work, life, time, energy, responsibility, and art.
2. [**TAIL END** ](https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html?ref=flyways.snowbird.global)Instead of measuring your life in units of time, you can measure it in activities or events.
3. [**HUMAN MATH** ](https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-mathematical-proof-is-a-social-compact-20230831/?ref=flyways.snowbird.global)Then there’s this notion of objectivity — of being sure that what is claimed is right, of feeling like you have an ultimate truth. But how can we know we’re being objective?
4. [**LOOKING IN LIBRARIES**](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/books/what-you-are-looking-for-is-in-the-library-michiko-aoyama.html?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) This is a review of a book I've been waiting to read - but more importantly, while popular culture is in a doom cycle it's a testament to the skill needed to make kindness and good fortune compelling in a novel.
5. [**QUEST FOR VACCINE**](https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-didnt-get-a-malaria-vaccine-sooner?ref=flyways.snowbird.global) Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it.

This weekend will be about finding oases of attention.

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