Monthly Art #49

Wed, Jun 23, 2021

This is a monthly “newsletter”, containing a list of what I enjoyed the most last month. Whether it was a full length movie, short film, music album, book or even a painting.

What I am watching

• The Painter and the Thief (2020)

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Every now and then I feel like I can’t be surprised any more. But then comes a documentary or a book which just blows my mind. This is certainly one of those. A painter from Oslo meets a thief who stole two of her paintings. Over time they become close friends helping each other through dark times.

“Through Darkness Comes Light, Through Fear Comes Love and Through Pain Comes Triumph” Mary Paleologos.

What I am reading

• WallStreetBets is trying something unprecedented in history and the media’s not reporting on it at all

A little bit outdated, but still worth reading if you haven’t seen it.

• Coordination, Good and Bad

“While it is emphatically true that “everyone coordinating with everyone” leads to much better outcomes than “every man for himself”, what that does NOT imply is that each individual step toward more coordination is necessarily beneficial. If coordination is improved in an unbalanced way, the results can easily be harmful.”

• Books

  • Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness, and Following Your Heart 3/5
  • How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease 4/5
  • Money 5/5
  • A Hero of Our Time 4/5
  • Лестница в небо. Диалоги о власти, карьере и мировой элите 5/5
  • The End of Eternity 4/5
  • Мифы Экономики. Заблуждения, которые распространяют СМИ и политики 5/5
  • A Man Called Ove 5/5
  • The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors 3/5
  • Конец привычного мира 5/5
  • The Queen’s Gambit 3/5
  • Shadow and Bone trilogy 2/5
  • You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits 5/5
  • Sidhartha 4/5
  • Station Eleven 4/5
  • Liar’s Poker 2/5
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 2/5
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think 4/5
  • The Death of Ivan Ilych 5/5
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 3/5
  • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt 5/5
  • Catch-22 4/5
  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing 2/5
  • Memoirs of a Geisha 3/5
  • One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market 3/5
  • Permutation City 3/5
  • Shantaram 3/5
  • The God Delusion 4/5
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny 3/5
  • Lord of Light 2/5
  • Русская модель управления 4/5
  • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race 3/5
  • Дневник Реалиста 4/5
  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art 3/5
  • How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future 4/5
  • Greenlights 4/5
  • Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination 5/5
  • Games People Play 3/5
  • World Order 5/5
  • The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are 3/5
  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention 4/5
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life 2/5
  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business 5/5
  • What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars 4/5

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So long