Lucre in the sky with diamonds Dale Vince doesn’t look like your typical diamond dealer. On the day we talk, he’s got his long grey hair stylishly slicked back and is dressed in a casual black T-shirt with a red and white keffiyeh-style scarf knotted around his neck. If you gave him a placard he’d blend easily into a crowd of […]
Why do you believe what you believe?
You’ve been lied to. Probably a lot. We’re always stunned when we realize we’ve been deceived. We can’t believe we were fooled: What was I thinking? How could I have believed that?
We always wonder why we believed the lie. But have you ever wondered why you believe the truth? People tell you the truth all the time, and you believe them; and if, at some later point, you’re confronted with evidence that the story you believed was indeed true, you never wonder why you believed it in the first place. In this incisive and insightful taxonomy of lies and liars,
Better Things on Hulu if you have children, this is a must.
The last book I read was
Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin, which takes place during the German occupation of Paris. And Ronan Farrow’s book
Catch and Kill. I also enjoyed
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, and
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden a must-read for anyone in the jewelry business. But my absolute favorite TV is escapism, and I’ve already watched all the episodes twice of
The Durrells in Corfu, based on Gerald Durrell’s trilogy,