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The famous nightmare counseling scene. The cardinal is dead. Cromwell is a councillor now. The great schism is almost upon us. An affair with Johane?

IDK, it kind of seems like she has no idea what she's doing and her employers don't like her.

The cardinal has been exiled. Cromwell is talking regularly with Henry, and sparring with Stephen Gardiner + Thomas More.

Flashback to Cardinal Wolsey browbeating Thomas Boleyn. "Always find out what people are wearing underneath their clothes".

"The only thing running in the cooks' noses" LOL

The cardinal in disgrace.

Reread! Finished the prologue.

Done!

Loss aversion — possession is 9/10ths of the law.

The endowment effect.

Skipped over a lot, but a dense section on prospect theory is upon us.

Associations, priming, cognitive ease and strain. Our intuition improves in a good mood (System 1 takes over)

First section. System 1 & System 2.

Calculus, Euler. They lost me.

Indian mathematics

Past chinese mathematics

Done!

Emily has run off with Steerforth

Dilla legacy

Dilla's early life. His fascination with vinyl records. Formation of Slum Village.

Started! Detroit history lesson. Polyrhythms.

Finished! Really loved the ending—the analogy to an actor complaining that thr play is over.

End of Book 9. On a tear at the end—to pray for a change in your response instead of a change in the events, on the inevitability of badness in the world (so stop being shocked)

End of Book 8. I laughed when he said that the Generations To Come that people worry about leaving a legacy for are “the same annoying people you know now.”

Adolescence. Fight with the butcher. Failed crushes

End of Book 2. What to tell yourself when you wake up in the morning. Flesh + spirit + intelligence. You are part of Nature. Life is shrinking. Your own soul > others’ souls. External things — neither noble nor shameful, therefore neither good nor bad. The present is all we have, no matter how long we live. Everything is the same; the elements just change all the time. That’s all death is.