It’s 2 July! Which, in years past, would have been the feast of the Visitation; but that’s been moved to 31 May, a chronologically more sensible date. In any case, I went to go look up the propers. Here’s a rather nerdy recording of a medieval setting of the propers of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Worcester. Happy feast!

real-life training in critical thinking

You might be surprised, but I enjoy reading tangentially work-related stuff, even though I don’t understand quite all of it. (And of course, helps to get a handle on how other people write about money!) Today’s highlight was this, published in the Business Times over the weekend: Annabeth Leow’s “Sherlock Holmes of Shenton Way”, about forensic accounting in Singapore. White-collar crime is fascinating (to me), but what I really liked about this article in particular was this aside from a lawyer:

Sometimes companies may think that, as a corporate lawyer with no litigation background, I will be a pushover. But, being the mother of a 19-year-old boy, I’ve had every excuse and deflection in the book thrown at me, and have developed a healthy store of scepticism.

Separately, the highlight of my night/morning commute is often Matt Levine’s Money Stuff column. It’s a riot. He also called something a “Chestertonian-fence problem” (i.e. don’t take down a fence before you know what it’s for, lest you send people merrying careening off a plateau into a chasm) the other day, which I much appreciated.