Five Point Update - January 30, 2016

This one's a total rip off from Tim Ferriss' Five Bullet Friday email updates. It's a quick and dirty template to help me build a blogging habit. 

1. What I’m reading - Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty. This book has popped up in two of my subjects this quarter. I want to find out what all the buzz is about (hopefully I can blog about the book at length later). 

2. Song in heavy rotation on my playlist -  Electric Guest's Waves.

3. Favorite stuff right now -  Anything that uses Heat Tech fabric, thin and light but could retain body heat pretty well. Like mithril for body heat. I always have a layer on, and it was handy when it snowed in Fukuoka last week. 

4. Quote I’m pondering -  “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ― Seneca

5. Next purchase I'm thinking about - A new phone. The trusty old Nexus 5 just turned 2 this month. The battery is starting to go bad, and the processor may no longer be up to spec with the latest versions of Android and apps. Should I go for the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, or hold out for something better?