Fire & Motion 20

Fleeting Quotes

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Reading

📕歧路行

廣場沒打死人* （*官方媒體聲稱）

其實我真沒讀懂這本傳記式的長詩集，因此匆匆番過後放回架上，來日再讀。

📕同婚十年：我們靜靜的生活

現在的我們，早就沒有什麼強烈激情，也很少黏膩再一起，然而卻可以一起做許多事，自然地出入彼此的生活中，對我們來說，伴侶的意義，就是可以與你自然生活在一起，卻不是成癮的關係。不是沒有對方不行，而是獨立很好、在一起更好，一個人自由，兩個人開闊。一起成長。

理想，與目標。

📄Walking Amman (Jordan)

Getting into a new part of town means descending an absurdly steep crumbling staircase, then playing a real life Frogger game across six lanes of traffic, before ascending another absurdly long, crumbling staircase. Often after trying three or four other staircases that end in private homes, or abandoned fields of garbage, bricks, and cats.

One of my favorite walking-related publications. I do enjoy those lines written by Chris Arnade, which always bring me alongside with him. All the details matter, and won't be so vivid if they hadn't been recorded by such a committed wanderer.

📄A Two-Part Look at: 1. Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises, and 2. How They Apply to What’s Happening Now

Big debt crises come about when the amounts of debt assets and debt liabilities become too large relative to the amount of money in existence and/or the amounts of goods and services in existence.

Too little credit/debt growth can create economic problems as bad or worse than too much, with the costs coming in the form of forgone opportunities. That is because 1) credit can be used to create great improvements that aren’t profitable that would have been forgone without it, and 2) the losses from the debt problems can be spread out to be not intolerably painful if the government is in control of the debt restructuring process and the debt is in the currency that the central bank can print.

Outside Interest!

🎶棲居在溪源之上 Seeking the Sources of Streams

🎥Subprime crisis explanation by The Long Johns

🔗【黑珍珠隕落】他笑擁世足三冠、啟發千萬孩子足球夢──比利，史上第一個「足球國王」