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The Role of Luck ...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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An excellent long read via Scientific American: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/
It should be noted that while I don't question the research or the results I don't view it as an "enabling" worldview - I generally prefer to take agency for ones actions and outcomes, but that is an "outlook" and the article deals with facts.
Leave No Trace
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Very good, well written, slowly paced, about a Vet and his daughter living homeless off the land near Portland, a sort of the tale of those countless people broken and tossed aside by the system.
I enjoyed this, and it was a different sort of story-telling. Expect a lot more movies like it when the Pandemic has passed.
Of fine things at a thrift shop
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I'm at a thrift shop, WIN, I think, somewhere between here and there, I'm going to say Red Deer not Red Deer. More an antique or junk shop, and I'm there with my son and my father, treasures galore...I'm on the main floor, collecting antique candlesticks, there's a a glass display case filled with beautiful things, I've set my candlesticks down, looking at vintage watches, all sorts, I'm laying aside a pile, rarities and brands I've never seen before...
Looking through the case, then upstairs, another glass case, and now I'm finding expensive fountain pens, Mont Blancs, all sorts of designs, new, in the box, I can't keep up with all the treasures, and as quickly as I'm piling them up they're disappearing, and I'm getting a little panic-stricken, can I afford them all? And where are they going to?
My father, he's had enough, he wants us to hurry, get out of here, time to continue onwards to our destination, ...
Prisoners
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Jake Gyllenhaal & Hugh Jackman. Good, suspenseful, but a watch-once sort of movie. I enjoyed the "war on terror" allusions and metaphors, and was drawn in somewhat by the plot - but - could have as well found something a little richer.
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