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Ryan Hoover's...
Do "Shitty" Work
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30-Day First Draft: Week 2.5 Report & Lessons 70,117 Words Later
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Building The Goose Palace The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason....
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The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason. The man who will improve the place is the man who loves it without a reason. — GK Chesterton Dear friends, In May I announced I was going to timber frame a 12x16 barn, though I...
DYNOMIGHT
Paper Paper is good. Somehow, a blank page and a pen makes the universe open up before you. Why paper has...
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Paper is good. Somehow, a blank page and a pen makes the universe open up before you. Why paper has this unique power is a mystery to me, but I think we should all stop trying to resist this reality and just accept it. Also, the world needs way more mundane blogging. So let me...
Charlie Becker
Orson Welles as Falstaff on Late Night TV This post is in the Notebook - my digital workshop for anecdotes, links, excerpts, sketches, lists,...
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This post is in the Notebook - my digital workshop for anecdotes, links, excerpts, sketches, lists, and anything else I want to explore in brief, revisit later, or post for reference.
Unfiltered by Tim...
Obsession Beats Talent and Intelligence Every Time "The most dangerous people in the world are intelligent people who are unsuccessful."
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Fire Hydrant Fury If you are an artist living in a city with a public art project you hope nobody blames you for it....
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If you are an artist living in a city with a public art project you hope nobody blames you for it. Lincoln, Nebraska is covered with ugly bike-shaped sculptures covered with even uglier paintings. Loveland, Colorado lets people paint their electric boxes. Your city probably has...
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ML® Wallpaper Pack Since the relaunch of minimalism.com, where we created a series of technical drawings inspired by...
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Since the relaunch of minimalism.com, where we created a series of technical drawings inspired by some iconic and beautifully designed objects to the homepage modules, I wanted to further explore this line art direction. So I continued my collaboration with Bakir Fazlic to...
Diaries of Note
Y’all are under arrest On 4th May, 1961, a courageous group of activists, later known as the Freedom Riders, set off on an...
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On 4th May, 1961, a courageous group of activists, later known as the Freedom Riders, set off on an arduous journey during which they would protest the segregation laws of various states. Beginning in Washington, D.C. they headed for the South aboard two buses, their ultimate...
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 26 The Power of Meeting Weirdos
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The Convivial...
The One Best Way Is a Trap The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
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12 Things to Live Without In 2018 I undertook a social experiment to see if I was self-disciplined and self-aware enough to...
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In 2018 I undertook a social experiment to see if I was self-disciplined and self-aware enough to live without 12 things. These 12 things would last just one month at a time between January–December, with the intention of identifying whether or not doing without these things...
The Intimate Mirror
Predictive Processing and The Sacred Liberating Reality from Our Priors
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Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: against the destructive will of Mammon It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely...
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It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely opposed to the modern world, to its infrastructure and to its thinking.
Stoic Simple
A Beginner’s Guide to Practicing Stoicism The ancient philosophy of Stoicism has recently gained popularity as a way to navigate life's...
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The ancient philosophy of Stoicism has recently gained popularity as a way to navigate life's challenges with a clearer, more level-headed mindset. Here, we will explore the key principles of Stoicism and offer practical ways to incorporate them into your daily life....
Thu Le
Between away and home And the paradox of travel.
5 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Asimov on Fame, Fortune, and Creative Breakthrough Part 2 of an Analysis of Isaac Asimov’s Long Lost Letter on Creativity
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RhysTranter.com
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of...
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over a year ago
In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of Terrence Malick's 2019 biopic of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter—executed in 1943 for his refusal to swear allegiance to National Socialism. Cooprider explores...
Isabel Unraveled
embracing my Wild Woman i’m a cheetah, not a house cat
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Scarlet Ink
A Time When I Was Tricked Into Being Honest — Bringing Facts Into Work Discussions Moving discussions from emotional interpretations to facts and metrics can move a group from...
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This death hit me hard Born in 1907 in the Australian city of Wangaratta, Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop was a surgeon...
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Born in 1907 in the Australian city of Wangaratta, Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop was a surgeon and soldier known for his humanitarian work during WWII. Captured by Japanese forces in 1942, he was sent to work on the deadly Thai-Burma Railway where, as a senior medical officer,...
The Convivial...
What Is To Be Done? Audio Version Listen now (20 min) | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 14 (supplement)
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journal – Winnie Lim
why I refuse to learn drawing properly When some people want to learn to draw, they do it the “right” way. They take a drawing class, watch...
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9 months ago
When some people want to learn to draw, they do it the “right” way. They take a drawing class, watch youtube videos, or buy a book – starting from the basics. I...
Laetitia@Work
What's not to like about work-life balance? Laetitia@Work #43
over a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
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over a year ago
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
Nat Eliason's...
The Window of Opportunity is Here Don't get stuck in neutral
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Stoic Simple
Using a Stoic Mindset to See Challenges from Two Perspectives by Bob Cymber I recently watched the intense National Geographic documentary Free Solo. One of the...
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over a year ago
by Bob Cymber I recently watched the intense National Geographic documentary Free Solo. One of the most surprising things about the film is how Alex Honnold, the rock climber who challenges intense heights without a safety harness, approaches his challenges. Before each of his...
The Honest Broker
How Many Visionary Artists Are Mentally Ill? A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in...
9 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Coward Fiction It'll happen to you, probably
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The Honest Broker
How African Musicians Came to Medieval and Renaissance Europe Western music has always been multicultural
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Daniel Bourke
Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images) A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.
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Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: The Power of Positive Intent One small but meaningful shift to make hard conversations a little bit easier
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The Map is Mostly...
quests, failure, desire or: contra defensive postures
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The Honest Broker
When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists They did it for 40 years—so why did they stop?
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Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde Has it disappeared? Does anybody care? Should they?
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The Honest Broker
Here's My Mission Impossible Article—But I Refuse to Talk About the Movie I just care about the theme song
a year ago
Left To Write
#9 Writemas: What Is Driving You? I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably...
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a year ago
I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably well educated, started poker around the same time, and never felt like we were enough. Both of our poker careers were driven by insecurity. We both had this desire to prove...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Frantic Phone Call I got a disturbing phone call the day after I quit my job. The voice on the other side of the phone...
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over a year ago
I got a disturbing phone call the day after I quit my job. The voice on the other side of the phone was sincerely concerned about me. What have I done? She told me I had made a terrible mistake.
Laetitia@Work
Bureaucrats are our heroes now Laetitia@Work #80
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Scarlet Ink
Why You Should Give Feedback — And How to Deliver It Without the Awkward Crying The why and how to write feedback for others.
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Paul Cudenec
In search of the source A personal journey against the flow
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Both Are True
the detonator no, i will not 'grieve' my pre-parent self
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The Honest Broker
I Say Forbidden Things About Sports What's happening in athletics is tragic—but don't expect to hear about on ESPN
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Scarlet Ink
Do Jerks Get Hired For Management Roles, or Does Management Create Jerks? I assumed that certain rude personalities were promoted to leadership positions. Then I both found...
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I assumed that certain rude personalities were promoted to leadership positions. Then I both found myself being promoted, and adopting some of those behaviors.
The Ruffian
Unveiling 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Yes It's an Actual Book With a Cover and Everything
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Paul Cudenec
A call for resistance For once, a video message…
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The Best Lawn in the Entire Post-Apocalypse What kind of an idiot am I that I would be doing lawn maintenance during the zombie apocalypse? Let...
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Nat Eliason's...
To Improve Yourself You Must Know Yourself How to make change stick
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"we are perfect parents" An alphabet of grievances
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Diaries of Note
The most sensual thing I’ve ever seen When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip...
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When Pamela Des Barres graduated from high school in 1966, she headed straight for the Sunset Strip where the rock stars she had idolised from afar roamed—a path that led her to become one of the most celebrated groupies of the rock and roll era. She kept a diary throughout and...
The Map is Mostly...
Resist Summary painfully quick thoughts about AI
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Left To Write
The Narrative Fallacy How narratives can distort our perception of reality and what to do against it
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Luxagraf:...
In The Dunes Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.—Henry David Thoreau,...
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Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, March 22, 1842 Mornings grow colder with every passing day. The sunrise edges a little further south every time I crest the dunes to watch. The wind howls most mornings, a...
Both Are True
the haunting image of a "best newsboy" kid's costume from Target ALSO ALL THE BATWRITE LINKS FOR JULY
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Passing Time
Backyard Skiing You don’t have to go far from home for adventure
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The Ruffian
Banishing The Inner Critic How Madison Keys Learned To Care Less and Win More
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Diaries of Note
A glorious, wonderful climax Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a poet, journalist, and occasional diarist who spent much of her life...
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a poet, journalist, and occasional diarist who spent much of her life advocating for the rights of African Americans and women during the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century. Born in 1875 in New Orleans, Louisiana, her mixed-race heritage...
The Ruffian
Congrats Keir, You Won, Now Change Prime Minister Starmer Needs To Be Very Different To Opposition Leader Starmer
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Mouth Lookers and the Connection Illusion My girlfriend told me I was do it wrong. How was I supposed to know? They don’t teach this stuff in...
over a year ago
The Ruffian
My Year In Reading Books I Read Or At Least Picked Up In 2023
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The Honest Broker
Tell Us What You're Doing Here's your chance to strut your stuff
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The Honest Broker
What's Happening to Students? Here's the latest news from the zombie wars
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Diaries of Note
A disgusting day! In April of 1891, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky made the long journey to New York where...
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In April of 1891, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky made the long journey to New York where he was to play a pivotal role in the inauguration of the city’s new music hall, later known as Carnegie Hall—a momentous occasion and the first time he had set foot in the United...
journal – Winnie Lim
gathering different pieces of myself I’ve been back home for a few days now. It feels good to be where I feel the safest, slowly working...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been back home for a few days now. It feels good to be where I feel the safest, slowly working to get back to the routine I had before. Yesterday I...
The Map is Mostly...
Why Buy a House (or Land)? A lesson in ignoring economics
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The Convivial...
Care, Not Control The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 11
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
One feels as if one is dissolved into Nature Albert Einstein’s trip to the California Institute of Technology in December 1931, for the first of...
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a year ago
Albert Einstein’s trip to the California Institute of Technology in December 1931, for the first of three annual visiting professorships, marked a crucial juncture in his life. The rise of the Nazi party in Germany, with its vehement anti-Semitism, was forcing the physicist to...
Luxagraf:...
Gear Review: Hilleberg Akto Tent TL;DR version: If you want a reasonably lightweight, bomb-proof solo shelter that will last years,...
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TL;DR version: If you want a reasonably lightweight, bomb-proof solo shelter that will last years, the Hilleberg Akto is the tent to get. Also worth considering is the Hilleberg Enan, which is discussed in the review below. Most of the best days I can remember, I woke up in a...
Diaries of Note
Oh Misery or the reverse! In January of 1932, Barbara Pym was diligently studying English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford,...
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over a year ago
In January of 1932, Barbara Pym was diligently studying English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, honing her craft eighteen years before publication of her debut novel, Some Tame Gazelle. It was around this time that she was thinking deeply of Henry Harvey, a fellow student two...
Charlie Becker
The Scrutiny Gap Critical Thinking at Critical Times
over a year ago
Jason Fried
Randomly right One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing. Every forest, every...
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3 months ago
One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing. Every forest, every field, every place untouched by humans is full of randomness. Nothing lines up, a million different shapes, sprouting seeds burst where the winds — or birds — randomly drop...
Both Are True
upcoming batwrite sessions + links here they are for you, dear bathead
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Both Are True
Beautiful Disasters “you can’t get addicted to weed.” wanna bet?
a year ago
Charlie Becker
Once the Cosmos Become Commonplace Castles in the Sky #59
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
practicing creativity while in recovery Prior to getting covid I revolved my life around getting healthier: exercising, recovering from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Prior to getting covid I revolved my life around getting healthier: exercising, recovering from exercise, cooking. Now I am just focused on getting back to my baseline, which till now I am...
Paul Cudenec
Video: The Corruption is Real and Sickening I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by Drs Mark and Sam Bailey in New Zealand, based on some of my recent writing.
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023] Big, Big News!
over a year ago
Both Are True
and baby makes four??? lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024 Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
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Both Are True
most hated essays from last year (also the ones you loved fine) 2023's flops and favs, bombs and bangers, yucks and yums, duds and dopes, bads and goods, letdowns...
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Diaries of Note
Poor wreck that I am John L’Heureux, a renowned Massachusetts-born novelist and poet, spent seventeen years of his life...
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over a year ago
John L’Heureux, a renowned Massachusetts-born novelist and poet, spent seventeen years of his life as a Jesuit before embracing the literary world. On June 11th, 1966, after twelve years of rigorous study, he was ordained as a priest. During the three years leading up to this...
Abhishek Chakraborty
The Perks of Being Resourceful Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his...
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over a year ago
Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his one-liners and uplifting sense of humour (even in the direst of situations), what makes Mark Watney standout from the rest of us is his limitless resourcefulness.
DYNOMIGHT
Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange (espissange? asspionage?) Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage?...
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a year ago
(espissange? asspionage?) Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage? Why is the US so obsessed with getting its hands on him? At dynomight.net we don’t like to answer questions. Instead, we prefer to replace them with more abstract questions that we...
The Map is Mostly...
Efforts and Goals and Joy There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to...
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a year ago
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and...
Scarlet Ink
Three Tales from an Amazon Bar Raiser A few examples of situations I went through as a bar raiser, one of the most entertaining positions...
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7 months ago
A few examples of situations I went through as a bar raiser, one of the most entertaining positions at Amazon.
Both Are True
and the record for 'most fears shared during a livestream' goes to... the minutes, hours, and flowers of BAT's first ever town hall
3 months ago
Both Are True
we laugh so that we do not cry but we end up crying anyway a recap + recording of BATWRITE #001
2 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Basketball, neo-imperialism and Zionism Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
6 months ago
The Honest Broker
How I Take Notes In response to reader requests, I share my 3 levels of note-taking
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Use AI for Slow-Solve-Fast-Check tasks just another human having thoughts about LLMs
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Diaries of Note
May they never give me peace Patricia Highsmith was an author who mastered the art of the psychological thriller, leaving an...
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a year ago
Patricia Highsmith was an author who mastered the art of the psychological thriller, leaving an indelible mark on the genre with works like The Talented Mr. Ripley, published in 1955, and her compelling debut, Strangers on a Train—two highlights from an incredible collection of...
The Honest Broker
30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok And why did youth mental health problems accelerate after 2010?
a year ago
Farza's Newsletter
just ate a croissant but then realized it was a steak what a stupid mistake Hey all — been a while. My last newsletter was 6-months ago. In it I was telling you all that we...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey all — been a while. My last newsletter was 6-months ago. In it I was telling you all that we were pivotting away from ZipSchool to this random thing called buildspace. Like with any pivot, you don’t really know what it’ll turn into. You don’t know the vision —
Luxagraf:...
Low Oak leaves shimmer and dance in the wind. Morning sunlight filters in through the trees, the rays...
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Oak leaves shimmer and dance in the wind. Morning sunlight filters in through the trees, the rays fighting their way through wisps of Spanish moss. You can find this scene anywhere in South Carolina below the fall line, a vague geographic boundary that runs along the southeastern...
Left To Write
№ 69: What's It Like To Have An Autistic Brother My brother Alan has autism. We are four years apart — I'm the older sibling. My brother is a gentle...
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a year ago
My brother Alan has autism. We are four years apart — I'm the older sibling. My brother is a gentle soul. Yes, there are times when he can be irrationally angry. But most of the time, he’s so quiet and lost in his own world that it’s difficult to sense out what he’s thinking.
The Intimate Mirror
The Avoidant Dharma How Western Buddhism Validates Emotional Withdrawal
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Ryan Hoover's...
“Holy shit, this thing actually works”
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult? Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Why make something beautiful? on starting a rose garden
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The Convivial...
Reading As Counter-Practice The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
over a year ago
Raptitude.com
The Tiniest Mission Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is:...
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Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is: placing a jigsaw puzzle piece into the right slot, wiping your phone screen spotless, returning a tool to its designated hook, or making a nice diagonal cut across a lovingly-made...
The Honest Broker
Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next Are you ready? Is anybody ready?
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The Ruffian
Seven Features Of Post-Literate Politics Inspired By Walter Ong's Classic Book, 'Orality and Literacy'
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Diaries of Note
It was so horribly fascinating that I felt spellbound During World War I, the skies over Britain were periodically lit up by German Zeppelins in what...
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During World War I, the skies over Britain were periodically lit up by German Zeppelins in what would become known as “The First Blitz.” These enormous airships seemed almost invincible as they loomed over cities, striking terror into the hearts of civilians below, and between...
Diaries of Note
The century of Voltaire Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be...
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over a year ago
Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be renowned for his dramatic, emotive works, his use of bold colour and brushwork setting him apart. But his influence extended beyond the canvas, as at the age of twenty-three he...
Luxagraf:...
Frozen The last few years in this area have not been good to ice fishermen. At least that's what I hear....
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The last few years in this area have not been good to ice fishermen. At least that's what I hear. Last year the lake barely froze over. By March it had thawed. This year started more optimistically. Parts of the bay were already frozen by New Year's -- the shallower, calmer water...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Qualifying for Boston in 2021 Will Be Harder than Ever Registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon has closed and there is a brand new set of data ready for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Registration for the 2020 Boston Marathon has closed and there is a brand new set of data ready for analysis. If you are one of the runners who was accepted, congratulations! Qualifying for Boston is not easy, and as we will see shortly, it shows no signs of getting easier.
Diaries of Note
I fell on the flagstones It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by...
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It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by emotional distress, declining health, and unwavering artistic spirit. Kahlo endured multiple surgeries and spent long periods in hospital during this period, and in 1953, already...
RhysTranter.com
Ignatius Loyola: A Saint Reads the Saints 31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus...
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over a year ago
31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus (more commonly known as the Jesuits). In a breviary, I come across a passage from the Acts of Saint Ignatius taken down by Luis Gonzalez, which describes the growing influence of...
The Ruffian
27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person Plus a rattle bag of goodies
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Ten Warning Signs A huge change is coming
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Diaries of Note
Then a sailor, now H. M. author On 11th October 1849, two years before the publication of his opus, Moby-Dick, American novelist...
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a year ago
On 11th October 1849, two years before the publication of his opus, Moby-Dick, American novelist Herman Melville boarded a liner in New York and headed for London where he was to live for a few months while finding a publisher for his next book, White-Jacket. He wrote this...
Jason Fried
Why am I still doing this? I’ve been doing this for 25 years, so I’ll often be asked why I’m still in it and how I stay...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been doing this for 25 years, so I’ll often be asked why I’m still in it and how I stay motivated. It ain’t the money, as I’ve been fortunate enough to make more than I’ll ever be able to spend. I enjoy the work and we have a great crew, each a true pleasure to work with. I...
DYNOMIGHT
Links for January (1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a...
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(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a pond in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. After returning to DC, he mentioned to some White House staffers that a large rabbit had swum towards him “hissing menacingly” and he’d had...
The Ruffian
On not tolerating intolerance Why all companies, institutions and leaders should care about free speech
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
a year ago
Left To Write
Sinking To Survive I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is...
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over a year ago
I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is inherited and how much of this is self-inflicted. Last year, I read an article on Epigenetics. The gist of it is that we’re shaped by the genes of our parents and grandparents,...
Diaries of Note
The power of language can make people crazy Born in New York in 1933, the distinguished novelist Leonard Michaels was celebrated for his sharp,...
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over a year ago
Born in New York in 1933, the distinguished novelist Leonard Michaels was celebrated for his sharp, compelling prose and deep insight into the complexities of human relationships. Although he first became a published writer in 1969, his private diary entries, which he began...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Break Society's Money Rules If You Want to Be a Quiet Millionaire And never worry about money again
7 months ago
The Intimate Mirror
Power, Vulnerability, and Soulful Collaboration A Conversation with Dechen McSweeney on the Nine Mistakes We Make in Relationship to Power
2 months ago
The Honest Broker
The Most Dangerous Thing in Culture Right Now is Beauty You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....
a year ago
The Convivial...
Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist... The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
a year ago
Thu Le
Reading out loud Lately I find myself reading stuff out loud and enjoying it.
6 months ago
Diaries of Note
Come ennui When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran...
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When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran of the ambulance service, having served in the battlefields of Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917, as well as on Italy’s Mt. Grappa. But he now found himself entangled in the...
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Jemima Kelly on Trump: Part II On Melania, and Trump's Taste In Music
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On globalism and immigration Somebody commented on my article “The British population is under attack” that I had not made any...
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Somebody commented on my article “The British population is under attack” that I had not made any mention of immigration.
Stoic Simple
What Did Epictetus Teach About Stoicism? Stoicism is a philosophy that has been gaining popularity in recent years. It emphasizes personal...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been gaining popularity in recent years. It emphasizes personal ethics, rationality, and self-control. One of the most influential Stoic philosophers was Epictetus, who lived in the first and second centuries AD. Epictetus was born a slave but...
The Ruffian
Is Culture Dying? And if it is, should we mourn it?
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A Job Interview Trap Designers Might Avoid I was caught off guard during a job interview after I told the story of my Ghost-O-Meter app. My...
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over a year ago
I was caught off guard during a job interview after I told the story of my Ghost-O-Meter app. My audience was several designers and one developer who sat quietly on the edge of the group eying me skeptically.
The Ruffian
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Both Are True
remember me nots why do i forget the things i most want to remember?
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Five Words That Might End Your Design Career It is rare to be confronted with a truth so obvious, so devastating, that it causes you to abandon...
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It is rare to be confronted with a truth so obvious, so devastating, that it causes you to abandon your belief system, to walk away from the thing that defines you as a person. My design career ended when I read five words.
Mark Manson
How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In...
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a year ago
What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that by teaching you five tactics to conquer anything you might be afraid of. Heights, spiders, small spaces, strangely-shaped...
The Ruffian
A Brief History of Suburban Creativity The power of not being with the in-crowd
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The Prism
The Rise of Neotoddlerism Why activists are behaving like infants
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Eavesdrops and Dropouts I heard my name as I was coming up the stairs from the basement of the art building. Two art...
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over a year ago
I heard my name as I was coming up the stairs from the basement of the art building. Two art professors thought they were alone and were talking freely about their students. So before I opened the door, I eavesdropped. It was a chance to hear what they really thought of me. I was...
Laetitia@Work
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The Pathologies of the Attention Economy The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16
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Gordon Brown and the single global mafia Gordon Brown was prime minister of the UK from 2007 to 2010, having, from 1997, been chancellor of...
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Gordon Brown was prime minister of the UK from 2007 to 2010, having, from 1997, been chancellor of the exchequer under Tony Blair, whose links to the Rothschilds I explored in 2023.
Passing Time
Full of Eternity Home is a place where you have never been.
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journal – Winnie Lim
reviewing my past selves with obsidian Around this time last year I started manually entering my tweets, facebook statuses, select quotes...
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Around this time last year I started manually entering my tweets, facebook statuses, select quotes from dayone entries, etc into Obsidian and used Dataview to generate an “on this day” table view...
Laetitia@Work
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Eight Ways to F*ck up Your Life Without Trying Toxic mindsets we all have that will unconsciously ruin your life
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Both Are True
i went to the woods and realized the internet is insane you don't know what you've got till it's gone fishin'
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Diaries of Note
It is like a building site, abandoned in November Seamus Heaney, born in April 1939 in Northern Ireland, was a towering figure in the world of poetry...
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a year ago
Seamus Heaney, born in April 1939 in Northern Ireland, was a towering figure in the world of poetry whose mastery over the lyrical evocation of place and past earned him numerous accolades, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. It was fifteen years before this...
Tech and Tea
Under the Old Ginkgo Everything I’m learning about uselessness, thriving, and not needing to scale from our backyard...
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Everything I’m learning about uselessness, thriving, and not needing to scale from our backyard ginkgo tree.
Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: beyond left and right The global industrial-financial complex has been doing its best for decades now to ensure there is...
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The global industrial-financial complex has been doing its best for decades now to ensure there is no real ideological opposition to its life-hating agenda.
Farza's Newsletter
i got suitcases full of matcha tea don't mess with me punk Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a...
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over a year ago
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a live gameshow I hosted and gave away $100,000, had 225 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in SF, and then the following week had 125 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in...
Charlie Becker
The Moral Case for Small Business Starting, running, and supporting our way to a better world
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Passing Time
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The Ad That Radicalised Me Britain's Assisted Dying Debate
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Mind Mine
gossip steals your sovereignty talk is easy, action is hard
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Hungry Scalpels A wise designer's sharpest tool is an ability to reduce. Reduction requires a ruthless desire to...
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over a year ago
A wise designer's sharpest tool is an ability to reduce. Reduction requires a ruthless desire to slice through the clutter searching for a truth worth saving. Find truth and our job feels like a noble occupation.
Ryan Hoover's...
How Has Turntable.fm Grown So Rapidly With No Marketing?
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Stoic Simple
Developing Emotional Resilience Through Stoicism Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity, setbacks, and difficult...
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over a year ago
Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity, setbacks, and difficult situations. It involves effectively managing one's emotions and thoughts in challenging circumstances. Developing emotional resilience is important for mental health and well-being, as well...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
White Space You’ve probably heard the term ‘white space’ before, which is also often referred to as negative...
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over a year ago
You’ve probably heard the term ‘white space’ before, which is also often referred to as negative space and is used widely in digital and print design. It is the portion of a canvas left unmarked: margins, gutters, and space between columns, lines of type, graphics, figures, or...
The Honest Broker
Substack Has Changed in the Last 30 Days The people who hate us now love us—should we be worried?
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The Anti-Tech Canon: 30 Books My reading list for reviving human values in today's digital desert and liberating yourself from...
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My reading list for reviving human values in today's digital desert and liberating yourself from tech overreach
Jason Fried
Avoiding pile-ups One of the reasons we work in six week cycles, is that it gives us a different definition of...
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a year ago
One of the reasons we work in six week cycles, is that it gives us a different definition of later. When you work on really long projects — say 3, 6, 9 month projects — or projects that don’t have any end in sight, “we can do that later” typically means you’ll get to it...
Both Are True
due to sick, today's batwrite is cancelled next batwrites are Wed and Thur of this week and there are links for you to register here
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Left To Write
№ 66: Why Do We Brush Our Teeth? The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to...
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The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to conclusions
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My Masterclass on Better Storytelling 2 Years in 2 Hours
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I used to knock on the doors of old ladies No, it wasn't a prank. Lonely women were the only people home in our apartment complex during the...
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over a year ago
No, it wasn't a prank. Lonely women were the only people home in our apartment complex during the days when I was homeschooled. Most of the time the ladies would invite me in. They would offer me dry cookies or hard candy and tell me stories about their grandkids. Sometimes I...
journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts on the suicidal mind [tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of...
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a year ago
[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am writing...
journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes from busan I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
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9 months ago
I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
bookbear express
no exit love is the best kind of trap
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DYNOMIGHT
What if you just bought everyone air purifiers? I haven’t written about air quality in a while. Ominously, sometimes people ask me if I still care...
a year ago
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a year ago
I haven’t written about air quality in a while. Ominously, sometimes people ask me if I still care about it. So, lest anyone think I have some kind of dreadful healthy mental balance, I thought I should do some Fermi estimates. Say you’re one of the five humans who have $100...
Mark Manson
How to Stop Caring About What People Think There's this weird fantasy we all share of not giving a flying fuck about what people think. We all...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's this weird fantasy we all share of not giving a flying fuck about what people think. We all wish we could be impervious to others' opinions, like Superman deflecting bullets. But instead of bullets, we're out here trying to deflect the fucks we wish we didn't give. We...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Successful People Use "Anti-Productivity" to Achieve Extraordinary Results. You Should Too. Here's what it bizarrely is (without complexity)
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Both Are True
anxiety at work!! hey boss, are you mad at me?
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Diaries of Note
I bowed to the will of the gods and descended Dame Barbara Hepworth was a trailblazing force in 20th-century British sculpture who profoundly...
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a year ago
Dame Barbara Hepworth was a trailblazing force in 20th-century British sculpture who profoundly impacted modern art with her dedication to form, space, and abstraction. Born in Yorkshire in 1903, she endured a heart-wrenching tragedy in February 1953, when her son Paul, an RAF...
Atoms vs Bits
Did the Cybertruck Bomber Have CTE? In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism...
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6 months ago
In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism within just a few days. The Cybertruck bombing, in particular, is notable because the alleged perpetrator was in the US Army special forces. This suggests two things about him: He...
Charlie Becker
I was selected for a $100,000 O'Shaughnessy Ventures Fellowship to empower used bookstores with AI. CBL #94 | Big Update on Life & Work
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Farza's Newsletter
just bit into a baklava but it was a cement brick damn what a scam It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing...
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over a year ago
It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing where learnings really stack on top of each other regardless of the product/company… Going to try our best to keep the growth going into next week! Something that’s going well:...
Ryan Hoover's...
Teaming up with Amazon
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Tech and Tea
How do you want to spend your time? a question that seems to be on lots of people's minds
over a year ago
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: Zionism and the criminocracy In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
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In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2024.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalissimo Shop V2 The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know...
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over a year ago
The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know why I held WordPress in such high regard for so many years—it’s Starbucks of the CMS world. So migrating my sites over to Kirby is a great feeling. The latest of which was the...
Ryan Hoover's...
Please be kind on launch day 😊
over a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Intuitions for Georgism Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
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11 months ago
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
Isabel Unraveled
the mind is a trap be careful what you convince yourself of
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The Honest Broker
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The Ruffian
Barbearheimer Notes on Barbie, Oppenheimer, and The Bear
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Diaries of Note
It was the finest excitement I ever had Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine Corps aviator, was born on March 8, 1882, in Atlanta,...
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a year ago
Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine Corps aviator, was born on March 8, 1882, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1917, under the directive of Major General Commandant George Barnett, he embarked on a crucial mission to France to observe Allied air operations and training during...
Unfiltered by Tim...
11 Decisions I'm Making At 38 To Avoid Regret At 58 The future you is formed by every small decision you make today, not luck or fate
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bookbear express
How they made it: The Molehill's Viv Chen on career transitions and fashion writing creativity, security, and changing careers in your late 20s
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journal – Winnie Lim
unexpected surprises in osaka Last night I spent hours trying to book a hotel for today’s arrival at tokyo, so this post intended...
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a year ago
Last night I spent hours trying to book a hotel for today’s arrival at tokyo, so this post intended for yesterday is now being written on the bullet train instead. I could...
The Honest Broker
What's the Greatest Live Music Event You Ever Saw? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker
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Both Are True
prompts for human beings if you try putting these into AI, a shoe will fall on your head
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FLASHPOINTS #12: Are machines becoming more intelligent than us - and what does that even mean? A conversation with Professor David Krakauer
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The Honest Broker
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
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Luxagraf:...
Everyday It's 1984 Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying,...
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a year ago
Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying, hmm, maybe we lost something between then and now were... bad? The American Psychological Association considers nostalgia a subset of depression, which is, ahem, depressing. But...
Raptitude.com
In Favor of Reading Aloud When I read Jane Eyre, I stalled for a full year between the opening part at the boarding school and...
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10 months ago
When I read Jane Eyre, I stalled for a full year between the opening part at the boarding school and the rest of the book. I tend to dislike boarding-school openings in books, but the real problem was I found myself having to reread too many of Charlotte Brontë’s winding,...
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Internet Will Pay You More for Your 9-5 Skills than an Employer Ever Will (Few Understand) Stop stealing from yourself
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Diaries of Note
I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
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Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Divorce, Separations & Breakups: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Diaries of Note
Wonder, astonishment, and devotion In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of...
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In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of scientific thought for generations to come. Aboard that ship, with a mere 22 years under his belt, was Charles Darwin, whose role would lead to remarkable discoveries about the natural...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Losing a Loved One: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Mind Mine
embracing my Wild Woman i’m a cheetah, not a house cat
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Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
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Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity Knowing what you're building
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Adults Have Totally Misunderstood How AI Will Affect Society Time to look at the other side of AI (this will affect us all)
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Mark Manson
The 5 Levels of Understanding Yourself Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the...
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a year ago
Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the self. We'll be exploring the concept of self at five different levels, from simple explanations to brain-melting ideas that'll leave you questioning your very existence. Ready? Let's do...
Luxagraf:...
History We crossed the Mason Dixon line on our way to Assateague, but it didn't really feel like we were in...
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a year ago
We crossed the Mason Dixon line on our way to Assateague, but it didn't really feel like we were in the south yet. No offense Maryland, but it wasn't until I stopped at a gas station in Virginia that I heard the friendly twang of a southern accent. A few miles later I passed a...
Unfiltered by Tim...
"Late Bloomers" in Life in Their 40s, 50s, and 60s Are Incredible Some naive people make the mistake of thinking you can only do big things while you’re young. But...
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Some naive people make the mistake of thinking you can only do big things while you’re young. But these “late bloomers” showed me this is untrue.
The Convivial...
Vision Con The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
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Why Are Some Of Our Most Successful Leaders Mentally Ill? On Milei, Musk, and Trump
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Both Are True
bad hair day (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tbh) a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander
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Planet of the Apps + Product Hunt, Coming to a City Near You 🙌
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What’s Your Talent Stack? Could understanding Donald Trump’s success help designers get hired?
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Letters of Note
Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter...
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over a year ago
On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter to his father. To read his diary entry from that same day, visit Diaries of Note. And don’t forget to sign up for the Letters of Note newsletter. Born in Scotland in 1847,...
Daily Stoic
How To Cure Anxiety: 9 Stoic Techniques That Work “We suffer more from imagination than from reality.” — Seneca The 21st century has been described as...
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“We suffer more from imagination than from reality.” — Seneca The 21st century has been described as “The Age of Anxiety,” “The United States of Stress,” “The World of Worry.” The implication is that what we are experiencing—pandemics, terrorism, political and economic turmoil,...
Rubenerd
Brolific R.L. Dane enquired about how one maintains a regular blogging habit, and counted my number of posts...
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R.L. Dane enquired about how one maintains a regular blogging habit, and counted my number of posts with a simple bash script. I wouldn’t say I have a specific recipe for a successful blog, though there are always a few points to keep in mind: Never write filler. People can tell...
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Hida Folk Village… eventually! I start this post about our second day in Takayama with a confession. If you’re a weeb and/or otaku,...
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I start this post about our second day in Takayama with a confession. If you’re a weeb and/or otaku, you’re likely familiar with convenience store bundle offers. In exchange for buying from a list of items in store, you can redeem a piece of anime merchandise. I’ve long thought...
The Ruffian
What makes the perfect creative brief? And how to write a brief for yourself
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The Honest Broker
The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024 Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
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The Map is Mostly...
creatures of temperament It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:
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How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture My quest for a healthier relationship with technology
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Both Are True
I got a perfect score on my SAT and all I got was this lousy feeling of never being enough S1E1 is free now, pls read it before the season ender coming soon!
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Paul Cudenec
The Big Plan and the Great Gaslighting Earlier this year I published an essay about “modernisation” in post-WW2 France which exposed how it...
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Earlier this year I published an essay about “modernisation” in post-WW2 France which exposed how it was part of a deliberate strategy of dispossession and control.
The Ruffian
Five Myths About Trump Why We Keep Underestimating Him
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The Best Things I Read in 2022 Plus: the best of the blog, your recommendations, and a vacation announcement
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RhysTranter.com
The Letters of Thomas Merton I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books....
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I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books. Now, I am dipping into the multi-volume edition of his letters...
Both Are True
The one thing everyone in this country has done at least once Five Things I've Learned About America
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A Look at Bill Evans's 15-Year-Old Pianist Grandson And other updates on previous posts
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Raptitude.com
Somebody Has Already Figured It Out for You Let’s say you want to cross a river. There’s no bridge, because it’s 3000 BC and you are a nomadic...
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Let’s say you want to cross a river. There’s no bridge, because it’s 3000 BC and you are a nomadic goat herder. You’ve never seen a bridge that wasn’t just a log over a creek. Crossing a big river is something you haven’t figured out. Maybe nobody has. You could maybe make a...
Diaries of Note
My body is the record of those I have loved American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her...
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American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her large, colour-saturated, wooden column sculptures. Born in 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, Truitt studied psychology at Bryn Mawr College before venturing into art, her studies taking...
Daniel Bourke
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A very wonderfull scene In 1768, British botanist Joseph Banks was one of nearly a hundred crew members to join Captain...
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In 1768, British botanist Joseph Banks was one of nearly a hundred crew members to join Captain James Cook on the first of three historic voyages of exploration. For three years they journeyed, visiting South America, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and Java as they...
journal – Winnie Lim
one year of strength training Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had...
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Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had only 3 sessions with them, but due to a fundamental incompatibility – they had...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Being a High Performer Is Lonely as Hell It's also the best feeling in the world
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Both Are True
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Atoms vs Bits
Doing Things Differently The salience of different-ness gets in the way of doing things differently.
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He really wants me, as usual In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie...
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In 1991, three decades before she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, French author Annie Ernaux published Passion simple, a brief, semi-autobiographical novel in which its narrator recounts her intensely passionate, all-consuming two-year relationship with a married man....
The Convivial...
The Enclosure of the Human Psyche The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13
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You would be so proud Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...
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Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department in 1993, and three years later married Sonya, whom he had met when they were both students at Norfolk State University. In 1999, he was assigned to the World...
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Life Cannot Be Delegated The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
What makes tech fun? When asking this question, I'm not really thinking too literally. For instance, I'm not asking,...
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When asking this question, I'm not really thinking too literally. For instance, I'm not asking, "what is a fun piece of tech?" Because the answer to that would be simple: any game, gaming device, or immersive VR experience that's engineered to be fun to use. That's far too...
Daily Stoic
Perseverance: 7 Stoic Lessons on How To Keep Going “To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea...
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“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.” — Marcus Aurelius The question of why and how we are supposed to live has been contemplated for centuries.  Absurdist Albert Camus wrote that life is like...
The Honest Broker
Is Disney Trying to Sell Star Wars? I pick out winners and losers in my latest culture briefing paper
3 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Graceful Duck Whiffing I am lucky to work at a place that has a ping pong table in the back. The outcome of epic games hang...
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I am lucky to work at a place that has a ping pong table in the back. The outcome of epic games hang on one or two points that could bounce in either player's favor. Nearly every game contains a moment where the back and forth battle tips when a well-placed ball is barely...
journal – Winnie Lim
getting closer to my darkness I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months....
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I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months. Tracing back, I think it was since my covid infection.  I wasn’t surprised to...
The Intimate Mirror
Guide to Using AI for Embodied Thinking How to Develop Concepts Grounded in Felt Sense Using Artificial Intelligence
3 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
living life like a solo rpg player One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games,...
8 months ago
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One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games, partially because they trigger migraines and motion sickness for me, and partially because a combination...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
My Favorite People Don't Have Problems I walked into my boss’s office and said, "Mia, I have a problem." It was my first week as a graphic...
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I walked into my boss’s office and said, "Mia, I have a problem." It was my first week as a graphic designer and I had no idea what I was doing. Before I could explain whatever trivial issue I couldn’t resolve, Mia stopped me.
Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline here it is
a year ago
Passing Time
A Morning and Night in the Desert These moments in time seem to have a higher density than usual.
over a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Successful Suck-ers I mean, it's a claim
a week ago
Atoms vs Bits
The Half Life Of Memory A radioactive model of personal identity
3 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Amsterdam, gaslighting and the horrible truth In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount...
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In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount to much.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalissimo LAB Over the course of 2020, I have been making efforts to create a Minimalissimo LAB. “Whatcha talkin‘...
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Over the course of 2020, I have been making efforts to create a Minimalissimo LAB. “Whatcha talkin‘ bout, Willis?” What I mean by a LAB is a virtual environment that encapsulates all that Minimalissimo makes, curates, and publishes. It’s more a way to organise everything we do...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Mental Spacecraft: Two Contradictory Views from Space Fifty years after humanity’s first steps on the moon seems like a good excuse to imagine the view...
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Fifty years after humanity’s first steps on the moon seems like a good excuse to imagine the view from space. You are floating, weightless, taking in the beauty of Earth, a tiny blue marble dangling below. An umbilical cord tethers you to your spacecraft.
Charlie Becker
Treat life like a trip to the used bookstore. Bookstore Register #4
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Pensacola History From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge,...
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From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge, Big Lagoon. From our campsite there it was a short car ride to Perdido Key, which is another part of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Although it takes the better part of two hours...
Paul Cudenec
There's only one global mafia! I have noticed that some people, even those generally receptive to my point of view, beg to differ...
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7 months ago
I have noticed that some people, even those generally receptive to my point of view, beg to differ when it comes to the existence of a single global mafia – the entity I have taken to calling the criminocracy or even demonocracy.
Both Are True
just two dads becoming dad friends loneliness, parenting struggles (and joys lol), + "writing as legacy" with Marc Typo
2 months ago
Mind Mine
my phone is making me dumb is yours too?
6 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Biggest Wealth Transfer in History Is Happening Right Now You can be a part of it if you choose.
6 months ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Beware of labels
11 months ago
The Honest Broker
“The Only Sensible Person in the World” 10 Perspectives on Joan Didion
a year ago
The Prism
Debunking Lies About Israel Some difficult truths
a year ago
Laetitia@Work
Looking for precious time Laetitia@Work #49
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
dining in the cold as a former comfort addict (& thanks for the comments) The perks of searching for outdoor places to dine at is that we discover and experience places we...
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The perks of searching for outdoor places to dine at is that we discover and experience places we normally wouldn’t. Today we had coffee at a cafe with an amazing riverside view:...
Both Are True
i went mostly offline and then all this happened without the internet, my family steps into it; our wild and crazy offline Friday night
a year ago
Tech and Tea
Remote work and sick days a double-edged sword
over a year ago
Tech and Tea
On gentle personal growth in 2024 Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.
6 months ago
Diaries of Note
I shan’t worry about my girth Born in Minnesota in 1882, Dorothea Moulton Balano was no ordinary ‘skipper’s wife.’ At a time when...
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Born in Minnesota in 1882, Dorothea Moulton Balano was no ordinary ‘skipper’s wife.’ At a time when women were expected to remain ashore, she joined her husband, Captain Fred Balano, on maritime adventures aboard the schooner R. W. Hopkins, and her diaries, kept between 1910 and...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Selection: Architecture I previously wrote about Minimalissimo's return to print and with it, a fresh art direction and...
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I previously wrote about Minimalissimo's return to print and with it, a fresh art direction and finish. A couple of months since we went to print, I have grown even more proud of this piece of work. It's probably because of the feedback we've received from folks around the globe....
Nat Eliason's...
TODAY'S THE DAY! This book is not what you think
a year ago
Paul Cudenec
The global mafia and its designs on Africa Rwanda has in recent years become an important nerve-centre for the global criminocracy’s...
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Rwanda has in recent years become an important nerve-centre for the global criminocracy’s financial-imperialist designs on Africa, as I set out in an August 2023 article entitled ‘Cogs of corruption and control’.
Both Are True
the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july if america is so bold, why aren't you?
6 days ago
The Honest Broker
How Musicians Invented Stand-Up Comedy Even today rhythm makes a joke funnier
a year ago
Paul Cudenec
The spirit of Sophia: our promise Our Beloved!
9 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
If You’re Poor, the Solution Isn’t to Save Money. It’s to Make More Money. “A lot of poor people stay poor because they’re too cheap to get rich”
6 months ago
Tech and Tea
Space to create (and bonus kids' art 👩🏻‍🎨) Unexpected creative outlets beyond writing
over a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Christmas Cold After a week at Grayton we moved down the coastline to our favorite place in the Florida panhandle,...
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After a week at Grayton we moved down the coastline to our favorite place in the Florida panhandle, St George Island. This is the wildest, least developed area I know of down here. We've visited St. George more than any other spot in Florida and we never tire of it. We'd spend...
The Honest Broker
Here's Why I'm Telling Young Musicians to See the Dylan Biopic And an update on transformative songs around the world
3 months ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Email-First Startups
over a year ago
The Ruffian
Notes on Succession Life is not a story
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
The important thing is to keep going Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who...
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Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who published Spender’s first book, Poems, at Faber & Faber in 1933. Spender wrote the following diary entry six years later, a few days after lunching with Eliot and with the world teetering...
Wait But Why
SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story It's gonna take you to Mars. The post SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story appeared first on...
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It's gonna take you to Mars. The post SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story appeared first on Wait But Why.
Abhishek Chakraborty
Black Swan Bias: Rare Events Don’t Happen Everyday There’s wisdom in the saying, “Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.” Black Swan events...
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There’s wisdom in the saying, “Lightning never strikes (the same place) twice.” Black Swan events maybe rare but the distortions caused by them don’t disappear for a long time.
Diaries of Note
BlooOOP, blooOOP In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff...
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In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff struck up a correspondence with Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop nestled at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. These letters, filled with Hanff’s...
Atoms vs Bits
Making Sense Of Life Through Reincarnation Again the melody returns
6 months ago
The Convivial...
"Lonely Surfaces" (Audio Version) Listen now (21 min) | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 20 (supplement)
over a year ago
Passing Time
The Hardo-Normie Alignment Graph I don't know how I get invited to anything either
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Complete silence Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and...
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Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and work took on a poignant significance following the bombing of Hiroshima. Serving as the director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, he found himself at the epicentre of...