20220704 #breakfastdiary 485, 27°C/partly cloudy, 20 min/exercise
Blanch broccoli in boiling water. Cut tofu into small pieces, season with pepper, and pan-fry until the surface is crisp. Add vinaigrette dressing — #broccolitofusalad
People describe the current signs as a compound global economic crisis, a perfect storm, and so on — but wasn't the liquidity party we all enjoyed these past few years really the 'world turned upside down' in the first place? Everything you bought went up in price, everyone briefly felt like an investing genius with a windfall just around the corner, and 'money-printing' became a phrase people casually tossed around. Isn't that where everything started flipping upside down?
Kim Jin-hwa, The Strange Tale Called Economic Crisis
Times like this call for (as the latter half of the piece notes) protecting the economically vulnerable, modernizing regulation (not scrapping it), and working toward a shared understanding of technology so refined and useful that it becomes invisible.