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Jim OShaughnessy

@jposhaughnessy

23 Jan

1/ Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known to English-speakers as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus, Rome's first, and in the eyes of many historians best, Emperor.

2/ Many of Horace's maxims survive to this day and are seen as excellent life advice.

I was drawn into reading Horace by this quote, which I thought was an excellent lens to view the ups and downs of life:

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“Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.”
~Horace, "Ars Poetica"

I started back through my notes on him, and found several others that I thought others would enjoy, Here are some of the best of them:

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Jim OShaughnessy

@jposhaughnessy

21 Jan

1/ I enjoy rereading books that provided me a lot of insights and ideas on the first go around.

just reread this, and I highly recommend reading it if you haven't yet:

amazon.com/When-Breath-Be…

2/ The author, Paul Kalanithi, was a neurosurgeon and writer who got a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis when only in his mid-30s. He died at age 37 in 2015, but not before writing "When Breath Becomes Air."

It's filled with insights that perhaps only a dying man could see clearly

3/ “There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”

And

“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”

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Jim OShaughnessy

@jposhaughnessy

1 Jan

@pinkfloyd

"Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight...
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall"
~@pinkfloyd

I've often thought in an earlier era, they would have been poets or in the philosophy department of Oxbridge. This, for example, reminds me of T.S. Eliot:

"Far away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell"

And it's not just Pink Floyd, obviously.

I think you can find brilliant insights in many forms of music today, for example, the song "Patience" by Nas and Damian Marley is bursting with incredible ideas that really fit into an quest for a better understand of the 'truth'

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Jim OShaughnessy

@jposhaughnessy

28 Dec 20

@InvestorAmnesia

1/ Our 5 most popular podcasts by downloads for 2020 plus the 2 fastest growing in downloads, thanks to my co-host @InvestorAmnesia and producer @MathewPassy for providing this list:

#5 Our chat with @AnnieDuke about her new book

infiniteloopspodcast.com/annie-duke-how…

@profplum99

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#4 Our discussion with @profplum99 on his hypothesis of what long term trends are driving stock performance

infiniteloopspodcast.com/michael-green-…