Links I liked

  1. How to be efficient and, as usual, all the other links fro David McKenzie
  2. Median wealth in the USA? $134k if white, $11k if black.
  3. Facebook makes you envious and sad
  4. Children’s books have 50% more rare words written in them than words in the average adult prime-time television show
  5. Knausgaard goes to Newfoundland. Then America:

“So your idea is to drive across America and write about it without talking to a single American?”
“Yes,” I said.
“That’ll be a challenge,” he said.
“I know,” I said.

8 Responses

  1. I like #4 and find the general point to be convincing, but I also imagine that any medium that caters to a specific audience (in this case children) will use words specific to that audience and which are therefore less common across language generally. So “rarer” for children isn’t necessarily “harder” and won’t necessarily carry over to the most useful / impressive / thoughtful words in adult communication.