Weekly Links, 08/04/2023
- TIL: 18th century English aristocrats kept hermits on their country estates. The hermit’s main job was to be silently picturesque, and thus to delight visitors. “By 1750, if you only put in one structure in your garden, it would have been a hermitage” Ornamental Hermits Were 18th-Century England’s Must-Have Garden Accessory
- No one pays as much attention to the wisdom found in books and to a well-examined life as Maria Popova (@brainpicker) does. So it is an honored to be included in her library. Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier
