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Six short essays, and other fruitings growing sideways from Málaga.
I write here to figure out what I think, and to find better questions.
Yan Telón
THE MYCELIUM
CURRENTLY
READING
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan
Pollan treats consciousness as a live mystery and walks you through neuroscience, philosophy, psychedelics, AI, and plants in search of it. The attraction is watching a very good guide step into territory where experts disagree. You find yourself wondering whether your own ordinary experience of being 'you' is stranger than you normally notice.
LISTENING
The Beginning of the End
Headache
I keep coming back to this one; timeless, funny, sad?, with life insights: "There's so much shit in the world. There's good, bad, mad, sad, ugly, happy. But I just love beauty."
PONDERING
The Spanish housing crisis
good intentions, bad arithmetic
Many fixes make it worse. Long tenant contracts block young renters because landlords need certainty. Rent caps shrink supply and push more into the black market. Forced prices rarely beat actual supply and demand. Half of it looks like policy naivety, the other half like too many are in charge. Would be entertaining if the pain was not so real for so many.
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”
— Unknown