A thread of my favorite libraries. Up first, the Library of the Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum in Osaka, Japan. Designed by Tadao Ando in 2000. buff.ly/32f2VM9
The "Library-Dining Room" in Sir John Soane's Museum, a house museum in the former townhouse of John Soane, a 18th-19th century English Neo-Classical architect. reddit.com/r/RoomPorn/com…
The library with the most memories for me will always be UGL or the Undergraduate Library at @Illinois_Alma. The library was dug 3 stories into the ground. library.illinois.edu/ugl/history/ab… A couple of words about it. 1/4
Everyone thinks it was dug out of the ground so as to not disturb the Morrow Plots, oldest continually used experimental agricultural fields in the US. Rather, it was built into the ground to "maintain the open appearance of the [campus]." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_of… 2/4
In the mid 1960s, the designers of UGL added "additional telephone and electric conduits 'for eventual use in a computerized on-line circulation system.'" Illinois has a storied history in computing that isn't well appreciated . But that's for another time. 3/4
UGL isn't the most beautiful library, but it will always be a favorite for the memories. 4/4
The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building Main Reading Room loc.gov/item/event-393….
Judi and Howard Sadowsky's home in Los Angeles, renovated by Griffin Enright Architects, in collaboration with architect Elyse Grinstein: architecturaldigest.com/gallery/enrigh…
A personal residence in Paris. If you're feeling it, you can rent this space for a couple of nights: plumguide.com/homes/14930/re…
When I lived in Chicago, I used to read in the Atrium at the Harold Washington Library. In the late 2000s, I was here as the snow began to fall. I can still remember the beauty of the scene.
To end tonight, here is my reading nook. More soon.
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I’m throwing pickles into the late night ramen I’m making. Wish me luck.
Honestly I may have gotten a good combo.
Got it. Here’s what I did. I broke down a Black sea bass with my neighbor last weekend. We made a bunch of fumet. So I used one quart to make a ramen broth. Before putting in the fumet, I sautéd, garlic, green onions and cilantro stems. 1/x
To help make sense of today’s antitrust hearing, I put together an old school FAQ with help from my colleagues at @cgousu that details some of the key questions and remedies to be discussed: medium.com/cgo-benchmark/….
Here are a few highlights. 1/6
Zuckerberg will face questions over FB’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp. In attention markets, however, consumer exit is key. My own estimates suggest consumers have taken back nearly $200 billion of their time since the CA story broke: medium.com/cgo-benchmark/… 2/6
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be in the hot seat today for his company’s advertising business. And yet, online ad prices have seen a dramatic drop in the past decade, according to the BLS and are now nearly half their 2009 level. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU365 3/6