They'd be better off with a great books program - SJCA in annapolis comes to mind here. You won't get much that's not hand fed to you if you are just reading some Lattimore translation anyways
Since you asked for tips: The DJI mics have an omnidirectional pickup pattern, so they'll pick up everything around them. They're a good option for a quiet room but not a noisy convention.
I think a better option would be each person holding a cardioid microphone. A cardioid pickup pattern rejects noise from the sides and back. The canonical hand-held cardioid microphone is a Shure SM58. It's cheap (around $100 USD) and is built to lessen handling noise while moving it around. Do a web search for "interview microphones" for other models.
I, for one, am not well read -- I just read trashy genre fiction and Substacks, and then otherwise have my well read friends explain things to me using small words
For we are lovers of the beautiful in our tastes and our strength lies, in our opinion, not in deliberation and discussion, but that knowledge which is gained by discussion preparatory to action. For we have a peculiar power of thinking before we act, and of acting, too, whereas other men are courageous from ignorance but hesitate upon reflection. And they are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense both of the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger. In doing good, again, we are unlike others; we make our friends by conferring, not by receiving favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would rather by kindness keep alive the memory of an obligation; but the recipient is colder in his feelings, because he knows that in requiting another's generosity he will not be winning gratitude but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit. To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state. For in the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries is superior to the report of her. No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the reverses which he sustains at the hands of such a city; no subject complains that his masters are unworthy of him. And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose poetry may please for the moment, although his representation of the facts will not bear the light of day. For we have compelled every land and every sea to open a path for our valor, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity. Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died; they could not bear the thought that she might be taken from them; and every one of us who survive should gladly toil on her behalf.
If "Thucydides" doesn't start trending today I will be very disappointed
That's pretty cool they're still teaching Thucydides in US military schools.
They'd be better off with a great books program - SJCA in annapolis comes to mind here. You won't get much that's not hand fed to you if you are just reading some Lattimore translation anyways
If you want to know what really happened at the Peloponnesian War you need only ask Substack's very own immortal Greek goddess! (Me)
Excited to listen to this one
Love this ❤️
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Since you asked for tips: The DJI mics have an omnidirectional pickup pattern, so they'll pick up everything around them. They're a good option for a quiet room but not a noisy convention.
I think a better option would be each person holding a cardioid microphone. A cardioid pickup pattern rejects noise from the sides and back. The canonical hand-held cardioid microphone is a Shure SM58. It's cheap (around $100 USD) and is built to lessen handling noise while moving it around. Do a web search for "interview microphones" for other models.
Thank you!
I call that pessimism you guys were talking about “the Hardcore Atheistic Fallacy.” Or “this makes me feel bad, therefore this is true.”
In case anyone needed that mansplained.
Another big takeaway, everyone who works at substack is super duper well read.
Yeah I was surprised how well read everyone is. Almost across the board it seems people love reading and writing.
Gotta say, I feel like a real putz.
I, for one, am not well read -- I just read trashy genre fiction and Substacks, and then otherwise have my well read friends explain things to me using small words
That feel when you got most of your Shakespeare from Gargoyles the Animated Series.
I fear you guys asked for it:
For we are lovers of the beautiful in our tastes and our strength lies, in our opinion, not in deliberation and discussion, but that knowledge which is gained by discussion preparatory to action. For we have a peculiar power of thinking before we act, and of acting, too, whereas other men are courageous from ignorance but hesitate upon reflection. And they are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense both of the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger. In doing good, again, we are unlike others; we make our friends by conferring, not by receiving favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would rather by kindness keep alive the memory of an obligation; but the recipient is colder in his feelings, because he knows that in requiting another's generosity he will not be winning gratitude but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit. To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state. For in the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries is superior to the report of her. No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the reverses which he sustains at the hands of such a city; no subject complains that his masters are unworthy of him. And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose poetry may please for the moment, although his representation of the facts will not bear the light of day. For we have compelled every land and every sea to open a path for our valor, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity. Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died; they could not bear the thought that she might be taken from them; and every one of us who survive should gladly toil on her behalf.
http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/thucydides.html
Good episode but weak curls game from @sophia
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The loft seems really fun. Curious is Sophia has watched Kaos on Netflix…all things Greek mythology, as interpreted by Jeff Goldblum & Eddie Izzard
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Love the thought of live Substack events. I’m all in for a literary happening. Count me in.