Take Five: What is and what should never be

This leads to that in a week of the mind, with tech bros, Nick Cave, the Marginalian, Richard Hell, Benjamin Labatut and John Koethe. Then the mind shuts off for a romp with Led Zeppelin

“Take Five” is posted each Friday, and offers five things I spent some time with over the course of the previous week. No criticism, no in-depth analysis, just a few things I think you might be interested in checking out. When the spirit moves me, I’ll post other things at other times.

Everything is more interconnected than usual this week. I often feel …