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The Honest Broker
8 Pieces of Advice for Struggling Young Musicians (or Other Creative People) They keep reaching out to me with the same sad story—and here's what I say
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Loose Screws These screws, they build up over years of odd jobs and weekend projects. I can't use them but I...
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These screws, they build up over years of odd jobs and weekend projects. I can't use them but I can't throw them out, either. So they collect in little piles here and there. Why now should I have the urge to organize them?
Both Are True
there's so much i want to tell you here i go
3 months ago
The Ruffian
Len vs Glenn How Leonard Bernstein turned a crisis into a productive disagreement
a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Agency and Schooling (and gardening) Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar...
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Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar to some readers, the post is an elaboration of my thinking about agency. I speak a bit more about the problem, and potential solutions. I leave it implicit that I find it this very...
The Honest Broker
Do Drummers Live Longer? And can listeners also enhance their health through rhythm?
5 months ago
Left To Write
№ 74: An Entrepreneurial Odyssey How an epic poem can manage your expectations and reality
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I covered my face and wept American nurse Clara Barton emerged as a hero during the Civil War, her tireless efforts in...
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American nurse Clara Barton emerged as a hero during the Civil War, her tireless efforts in providing medical care and supplies to those on the front lines earning her the title, “Angel of the Battlefield.” After the war her good deeds continued, and she dedicated her time to...
Wait But Why
The Second Presidential Debate In case you missed it, here's what happened. The post The Second Presidential Debate appeared first...
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over a year ago
In case you missed it, here's what happened. The post The Second Presidential Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
Atoms vs Bits
Sometimes, You Should Ignore The Studies (And Just Try The Thing) For certain kinds of topics, average impact doesn't really matter.
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
Stoicism in the Gioia Family My brother Dana tells how our LA childhood gave us a direct connection to an ancient Roman worldview
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
documenting my mom making kueh lapis I cannot remember how long has it been that my mother has been making kueh lapis for the lunar new...
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I cannot remember how long has it been that my mother has been making kueh lapis for the lunar new year every year. Kueh means cake, and lapis means layers, so kueh...
Diaries of Note
You must be looking for Stuart Kevin Bentley was twenty-one when, in July of 1977, he left El Paso and headed for the bustling...
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Kevin Bentley was twenty-one when, in July of 1977, he left El Paso and headed for the bustling streets of San Francisco—one of thousands of young gay men flocking to this vibrant city in search of acceptance, community, and hedonism. San Francisco offered an enticing allure of...
journal – Winnie Lim
osaka, and thoughts on travel blogging We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first...
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We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first meal was okonomiyaki of course, and my partner found a okonomiyaki restaurant with outdoor seating:...
Diaries of Note
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...
The Honest Broker
Crisis in the Culture: An Update I revisit past predictions
7 months ago
Diaries of Note
To Day is the most Best day ever in my Life On 25th August 1989, Canadian geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his stellar team at Toronto’s Hospital...
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On 25th August 1989, Canadian geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his stellar team at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children made a groundbreaking announcement: they had pinpointed the gene behind cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that can lead to serious breathing problems and chronic...
The Honest Broker
12 Predictions on the Future of Song Investing Who will eventually own all the dead stars of rock & roll?
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Family After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
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After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach. Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
The Convivial...
The Thing That Is Silence The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 14
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I do not know the origin of this ugly sport For most, Boxing Day is a time for leftovers and lounging, but in the New Forest of England during...
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For most, Boxing Day is a time for leftovers and lounging, but in the New Forest of England during the late 1800s and early 1900s it signified something more primal. On the 26th of December each year, the winter-stilled woods echoed with the sounds of a cruel and peculiar...
Passing Time
Pave the 14ers We must democratize access to 14ers.
over a year ago
Mark Manson
My Response to Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke...
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Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife. Since that moment, my phone and inbox have been inundated non-stop with people (friends, family, readers, journalists) wanting my “take” on the situation. After all, I...
Left To Write
I Want What You Have Let's talk about envy and its shenanigans
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Stoicism, Law & Justice: How Stoic Philosophy Sees Crime & Punishment Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, has been a subject of fascination and study for centuries....
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Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy, has been a subject of fascination and study for centuries. One of its central themes has been the pursuit of justice. The Stoics believed that living a just life entailed cultivating certain qualities of character and making decisions based...
Tom Howard
The best leaders keep their egos under control A version of this post was first published in The Australian on July 31 2018
over a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Build When in doubt, build shelves. Building things is an essential part of life. Shelves are easy and...
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When in doubt, build shelves. Building things is an essential part of life. Shelves are easy and satisfying to build. They're useful too. Everyone needs more shelf space. Everywhere I've ever lived I built some shelves or bookcase or some sort of flat surface on which to put...
Diaries of Note
In the world, yet not in it Born in Geneva in 1821, Henri-Frédéric Amiel was a poet and philosopher who found little in the way...
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Born in Geneva in 1821, Henri-Frédéric Amiel was a poet and philosopher who found little in the way of recognition during his lifetime, perhaps due to the introspective nature that fuelled the journal for which he posthumously found fame. Always reaching for perfection and...
Diaries of Note
Humility Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was...
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Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was travelling crashed, ending the lives of all its passengers. Born in 1905, Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United...
Left To Write
№ 78: Bloomstory Codex, Changing of Seasons, Unproductivity Is The New Productivity A brief update of the last months
9 months ago
The Ruffian
Zadie Smith and the 'Both Sides' Problem On Centrist Meta-Commentaries
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Diaries of Note
Bugger On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next...
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On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next day, British Formula One driver Stirling Moss almost died when the left rear wheel of his Lotus-Climax 18 fell off on the treacherous Burnenville curve. Moments later he was thrown...
Atoms vs Bits
Say my name, say mye naym I have a name that a lot of people find hard to pronounce
a year ago
Diaries of Note
It is so difficult to keep track of the days Born in Illinois in 1886, Minnie Vautrin became an unlikely hero in 1937 during one of history’s...
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Born in Illinois in 1886, Minnie Vautrin became an unlikely hero in 1937 during one of history’s darkest episodes. As a missionary and educator, she turned Ginling College into a sanctuary for over 10,000 Chinese women and children as the Imperial Japanese Army unleashed a wave...
Both Are True
The ONE Amazon Prime "Big Deal Days" (tf?) Deal they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT Read this asap before Bezos & Co delete it !!! Surely I'm in jail by now, please spread the word!!!
2 months ago
Diaries of Note
Nobody wants to give me what I don’t want Walter Ripton Morris was fifty-four when he was fired from his job. The year was 1961, and the...
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Walter Ripton Morris was fifty-four when he was fired from his job. The year was 1961, and the company for which he had worked for some time had been swallowed up by a bigger corporation who deemed him to be disposable. Four years later, Morris published the diary he had kept...
Diaries of Note
The Pole at Last!!! Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had...
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Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had eluded explorers for centuries: reaching the North Pole. Driven by ambition and unwavering determination, Peary, an American explorer and United States Navy officer, believed he...
Diaries of Note
The Boy Jones In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for...
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In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for three years had been fascinating Londoners. Known to most as ‘The Boy Jones,’ Edward Jones was a teenager who had repeatedly managed to break into Buckingham Palace, and on three...
Luxagraf:...
Fort Klock We left the shores of Lake Ontario on a blustery, cold day. Fortunately the wind was with us. The...
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We left the shores of Lake Ontario on a blustery, cold day. Fortunately the wind was with us. The bus blew down the road into the Mohawk Valley, to a small town on the shores of the Erie Canal where there was a marina that also had a few campsites. The campground was wedged...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Kindness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic philosophy that has recently sprung up that implies that Stoicism cares more about overcoming our feelings than it does about showing kindness to others. The truth is that a true Stoic...
Diaries of Note
How lucky were we? Natascha McElhone was 5,000 miles from home and pregnant with their third child when the call came,...
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Natascha McElhone was 5,000 miles from home and pregnant with their third child when the call came, and in that instant her world crumbled. Her husband of a decade and one day had died unexpectedly from heart failure while she was filming in Los Angeles. He was 43. As she faced...
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Big? Is This New? A surprisingly helpful thing I've started doing: when faced with a choice or decision, I ask myself:...
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A surprisingly helpful thing I've started doing: when faced with a choice or decision, I ask myself: is this big? is this new? If the answer is "yes", I do my absolute best to go find someone who has dealt with it before and get their
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...
Diaries of Note
I am dead and, exactly as I foresaw, I still exist Born to American parents in Paris in 1900, Julian Green spent much of his life in France, and...
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Born to American parents in Paris in 1900, Julian Green spent much of his life in France, and despite his American heritage he wrote exclusively in French, becoming the first non-French national to be inducted into the esteemed Académie Française. His prolific career spanned...
Daniel Bourke
Where’s the magic? I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old...
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I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old cricket coach told me about the laws of motion. And I never forgot. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It helped fix my right arm leg spin. I later
Both Are True
The "Don't Buy More Shit" Gift Guide A list of zero cost, $0.00 gifts, because "I love you" shouldn't mean "I am so broke again wtf...
a year ago
Scarlet Ink
Senior Engineer or Senior Citizen? How Can Vintage Tech Workers Age Like Fine Wine? Experience in some careers is viewed as universally positive, but that's not necessarily the case in...
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Experience in some careers is viewed as universally positive, but that's not necessarily the case in tech. Why is that, and what can you do about it?
Atoms vs Bits
New Game: Nomido With one of my other hats on, I made a new online word puzzle game called Nomido. The goal is to...
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With one of my other hats on, I made a new online word puzzle game called Nomido. The goal is to construct words out of two-letter tiles. I think it's great fun, and hope you will too – please give it a look! Nomido Share this on X
Castles in the Sky
How many of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century have I read? This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in...
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This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in the Castles in the Sky best of lists. To subscribe and receive these in your email inbox (or unsubscribe from them if you’re already receiving them), adjust your
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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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...
Mark Manson
A Practical Guide to Modern Dating So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul. Look, I know...
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So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul. Look, I know meeting new people, going on dates, figuring out if you even like the person sitting across from you—it can all be confusing, frustrating, and just exhausting at times. But before you...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Outrageous Side Projects The joy of side projects is that you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. Free from the...
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The joy of side projects is that you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. Free from the bureaucracy of your day job you can listen to those little voices that would normally get shouted down in business situations.
Both Are True
forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I look forward to the operating theatre as a happy release The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind...
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The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind razor-edged novels like Brideshead Revisited. But even for Waugh, the back-end of 1946 was particularly trying. Not only was he surrounded by the family who so regularly irritated...
The Honest Broker
Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
4 months ago
Diaries of Note
At some stage in the season, failure is going to stare you in the face Originally, Eamon Dunphy had set out to document a full year in the life of a professional...
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Originally, Eamon Dunphy had set out to document a full year in the life of a professional footballer. However, fate had different plans, and four months into the 1973/4 season he left Millwall to sign for Charlton Athletic, thereby cutting his diary short. The result was an...
Farza's Newsletter
just popped a white claw w/ kevin from the office Zip Good week. Went through a product pivot this week. We shut down our small class program, where...
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Zip Good week. Went through a product pivot this week. We shut down our small class program, where students would have a class with a ratio of 1 teacher-to-5 students. Why did we pivot? Growth wasn’t going anywhere w/ the small class program. Our growth curve for the last 4...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Blind Spots, Keyholes, and Failing in Slow Motion One of the principles I live by is a belief that the more you look, the more you see. It's a simple...
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One of the principles I live by is a belief that the more you look, the more you see. It's a simple mantra but it contains the meaning of life. Or at least I think it does. I am probably wrong.
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Family: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/f4sPP8SkiYQ Family was, without a doubt, an important element in the...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/f4sPP8SkiYQ Family was, without a doubt, an important element in the lives of the ancient Stoic philosophers. While Stoicism teaches that we shouldn't become too attached to people and that we should remember everyone can be taken from us, it also...
Diaries of Note
Why me? Famous for the autobiographical monologues he performed on stage, American actor and writer Spalding...
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Famous for the autobiographical monologues he performed on stage, American actor and writer Spalding Gray turned his life into riveting art, his unique shows, such as the acclaimed Swimming to Cambodia, providing a compelling insight into his personal experiences. In 2001, while...
journal – Winnie Lim
“ugly” drawings from korea The first couple of days in korea we stumbled into a 3-storey stationery shop called Object. There...
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The first couple of days in korea we stumbled into a 3-storey stationery shop called Object. There was a particular section where they sell stationery and stickers by a particular artist with...
The Honest Broker
The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
6 months ago
How to Be a Stoic
How to make progress with your Stoic practice (or learn to drive a car), Epictetus style There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for...
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There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for the differences between ancient and modern Stoicism, but even within ancient Stoicism itself. After all, the philosophy evolved over a course of more than five centuries from Zeno...
Tech and Tea
Progress can be slow We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
5 months ago
Raptitude.com
Growth Means Choosing a Different Kind of Pain I never threw a party until I was in my late 30s. I was always afraid people wouldn’t show up, or,...
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I never threw a party until I was in my late 30s. I was always afraid people wouldn’t show up, or, even worse, that they would show up and quickly want to leave. It felt like this particular fate could not be risked, which meant party-throwing was off the table. Other people...
The Honest Broker
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 2 of 2) I grew up in a cool culture. But that era has now ended. Right now, we are clearly sizzling in the...
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Developing An Intuition For Georgism WIRED published our weird ramblings on Land; here's the even weirder ramblings.
a year ago
Tech and Tea
Some thoughts on interviewing Recent experience interviewing candidates, reflections on the job market, and the shift in how...
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Recent experience interviewing candidates, reflections on the job market, and the shift in how people are seeing work fitting into their lives
Paul Cudenec
The stench of the system: conspiracy Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass...
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Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression.
Laetitia@Work
What's not to like about work-life balance? Laetitia@Work #43
over a year ago
Wait But Why
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro Welcome to the 2030s. The post All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro appeared first on...
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Welcome to the 2030s. The post All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro appeared first on Wait But Why.
How to Be a Stoic
Were the ancient Stoics feminist? Should the modern ones be? The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the...
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The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the conclusion of a detailed analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and feminism published in a paper by Scott Aikin and Emily McGill-Rutherford in Symposion, 1, 1 (2014): 9-22....
DYNOMIGHT
The real data wall is billions of years of evolution Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you...
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Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you wanted to speed up the development of AI, what would you send back? Many people suggest attention or transformers. But I’m convinced that the answer is “brute-force”—to throw as much...
Mark Manson
Pain Is Part of the Process https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski. He was a...
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https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski. He was a psychologist from the 1940s with a fascinating background. He studied with Freud's contemporaries in Vienna, worked with mentally ill patients, participated in the Polish resistance during...
Stoic Simple
Unleash Your Inner Sage: 5 Powerful Mindsets Fostered by Stoicism By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A...
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By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A person who overcame all of their personal defects to achieve a life of complete tranquility and goodness. The perfect Stoic, if you will.  They referred to this person as the Stoic...
The Honest Broker
The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises Here's how you kill an entire genre
7 months ago
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird? James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
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Overcoming Severe Mental Illness Transformed My Life I wasn't prepared for what would happen next
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Paul Cudenec
The British population is under attack The illusion that their government has their best interests at heart is rapidly fading for millions...
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The illusion that their government has their best interests at heart is rapidly fading for millions of people in Britain, particularly since the arrival in power of Keir Starmer, longstanding member of the criminocrats’ Trilateral Commission and ardent proponent of their chilling...
Passing Time
How Dangerous is Rock Climbing? There is an adage in climbing—there are old climbers, and there are bold climbers, but there are no...
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There is an adage in climbing—there are old climbers, and there are bold climbers, but there are no old bold climbers. I plan on getting pretty old.
Stoic Simple
Becoming a Better Leader with Stoicism: The Stoic Leadership Lessons Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a...
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Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a philosophy that emphasizes the development of emotional resilience, personal ethics, and wisdom. Stoicism has gained popularity in recent years as an effective tool for personal growth,...
The Honest Broker
Is Honest Writing the Next New Thing in Journalism? And 21 reasons why writers are dishonest
9 months ago
The Honest Broker
Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
Diaries of Note
It is almost impossible to comprehend Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn,...
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Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn, a small town in Eastern Poland where for thirty years he held the post of superintendent at the local hospital. During World War II, he balanced his medical duties with covert work...
Stoic Simple
Uncovering the Historical Origins of Stoicism . Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern...
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. Stoicism is a philosophy that has been studied and practiced for centuries. Though the modern understanding of Stoicism is associated with the Roman Empire, its roots can be traced back to Ancient Greece. This article will explore the historical origins of Stoicism, its core...
Both Are True
Beautiful Disasters “you can’t get addicted to weed.” wanna bet?
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
A Nice Little Party Gimmick for your friends to make more friends
5 months ago
The Convivial...
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 5
9 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
psychological health vs physical health Travelling keeps me sane. It is only on this trip that I realised how much my brain craves being in...
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Travelling keeps me sane. It is only on this trip that I realised how much my brain craves being in some sort of engagement, and travelling is a way to keep it...
Both Are True
Now That's What I Call BAT: Volume 1 greatest hits + a short new essay + an entire album of music all about rocks!!
8 months ago
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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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.
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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(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...
Diaries of Note
Today was truly, absolutely the worst day ever in Sarajevo In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions...
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In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions among the region’s ethnic groups escalated into the devastating Bosnian War. It wasn’t long before the city of Sarajevo found itself under siege. Amidst the chaos, a courageous young...
Diaries of Note
I am going to do my best Yoko Moriwaki was born in Japan in 1932 on the picturesque island of Itsukushima, better known to...
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Yoko Moriwaki was born in Japan in 1932 on the picturesque island of Itsukushima, better known to locals as Miyajima, and until war broke out in 1941 her childhood was a happy one, filled with simple joys. In 1944, with the conflict casting a heavy shadow, her father was called...
DYNOMIGHT
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All,...
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We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All, that is, except for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which for some reason can play at an advanced amateur level. This is despite the fact that this model is more than a year old and much...
journal – Winnie Lim
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Just before new year's, Corrinne and the kids rejoined me at Big Lagoon. We had a quiet new year's around the fire, and then the next day we headed out to the Fort Pickens portion of Gulf Islands National Seashore. If St. George is the best spot in the panhandle, Fort Pickens is...
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We all want to be motivated. We want to feel energized and excited about the things we do. We want to wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and drive, ready to tackle the day ahead. But the truth is, motivation is not always easy to come by. We tell ourselves lies about...
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I have a strange relationship with time. On one hand, I have time anxiety: the fear that time will pass too quickly and I’ll run out of time. On the other hand,...
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Anhedonia. The inability to feel pleasure. I wonder if I have sort of been this way for as long as I can remember. Is that why I’ve always been somewhat reckless and...
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Anne Lamott was thirty-five, single, and newly sober when she gingerly entered the world of motherhood. Already a seasoned novelist born in 1954 in San Francisco, this transformative period of her life became the foundation for her first foray into non-fiction, Operating...
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tried to buy some honey for my tea from wikipedia but they were sold out Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on...
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Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on Zip, which is what I want! And, all the other time is spent on either watching anime or running lol. In terms of running, been running 4-5 miles per day, 6 days a week pretty...
Farza's Newsletter
just saw a pigeon rollerblading on the streets wow didn't know they made rollerblades for pigeons Hey-o. Chilling in Central Park right now on a bench. It’s a pretty cloudy day. There’s this group...
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Hey-o. Chilling in Central Park right now on a bench. It’s a pretty cloudy day. There’s this group of like 25 people in front of me right now with fake samurai swords doing some sort of sword fighting class it’s pretty lit. They be dueling right now in groups of two. Poggers.
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We sprinted across Florida, from St. Augustine to the far end of the panhandle in two quick drives. We stopped in the middle at the Tallahassee Car Museum, an odd little museum with a few campsites out front (not everything on Harvest Hosts is a farm). The kids and I wandered...
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In the spring of 1965, American author Gail Godwin found herself at a crossroads. For five years, she had been living in London, and it was there, while working for the U.S. embassy, that she endured the disappointment of her novel, Gull Key, being rejected by multiple...
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No sooner am I happy, than he crushes me It was on the eve of their wedding in September of 1862 that Russian writer Leo Tolstoy showed his...
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It was on the eve of their wedding in September of 1862 that Russian writer Leo Tolstoy showed his diaries to 18-year-old Sofia Behrs, the young woman with whom he was to spend his life. Filled with lurid confessions and tales of past affairs, these notebooks made an instant,...
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thoughts after the 2024 US election Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I...
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Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I had lost it all witnessing how we responded towards a disabling virus. If...
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One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know – including the most intelligent and the most socially responsible – throw away all covid...
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Today, we're going to talk about a question I get asked all the time: How do I become great at this one thing? Let's dive right in. To become great at something, you must identify the 20% of actions that will yield 80% of the results. Take writing, for example. Editing is the 20%...
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Humans Are About to Learn Like Never Before Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises...
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Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises something great — like “a genie is granting your wish” great. I think this might be happening right now with one of my genie wishes, maybe yours too. For me it has to do with the piles of...
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Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve brought you here today to ask a favor. Say you wrote something like this: There were 446 students tested. The left-handed students passed 5.67664% more often than right-handed...
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I am delighted to say that today I accepted a role as Head of Religious Education and Chaplaincy Coordinator at St David's Catholic College. I joined the college as a pastoral tutor four years ago this month, after a religious conversion prompted me to seek out a new career in...
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Boston's Evolution: 1897–2018 My Boston Marathon dataset expands to encompass the last 121 years. With the benefit of another...
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My Boston Marathon dataset expands to encompass the last 121 years. With the benefit of another century of data, what will we learn?
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№ 79: Allowing Those You Love The Right To Be Wrong Why you’re getting this: I’m Jason Nguyen. I run Bloomstory.co.uk and The Mailroom. This is my...
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Why you’re getting this: I’m Jason Nguyen. I run Bloomstory.co.uk and The Mailroom. This is my newsletter. I used to write this every week, but now I send this out when I can — life got in the way. Updates on what’s been going on in my life are at the bottom of this newsletter.
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Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions and Perform 6 System Checks I had trouble making resolutions this year. Normally I love the process, I make my list, sketch out...
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I had trouble making resolutions this year. Normally I love the process, I make my list, sketch out a plan, maybe even buy an online course or two. But this year I couldn’t do it. Why was my brain blocking the New Year’s resolution tradition?
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Bus Work and Baseball Our last few days on St. George between all of us we saw a Scarlet Tanager, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak,...
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Our last few days on St. George between all of us we saw a Scarlet Tanager, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, and an Indigo Bunting. The migrant birds were moving through. That's one of our cues that it's time to go. When the birds are headed north it's about time for us to do likewise. A...
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We simply dread the moon Hallie Eustace Miles was a writer and restaurateur who, along with her sportsman husband Eustace...
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Hallie Eustace Miles was a writer and restaurateur who, along with her sportsman husband Eustace Hamilton Miles, opened a vegetarian restaurant in 1906, shortly after their marriage. The Eustace Miles Restaurant became an iconic meeting place in Edwardian London, drawing a wide...
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#13 Writemas: Merry Christmas! This will be the last issue of Writemas ‘23. It’s been tough juggling this, Bloomstory and other...
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Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of interrelated short stories that painted an intimate portrait of small-town America and had a lasting impact on American literature. By 1938, three...
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Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to...
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Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, we’ll look at how to solve Laplace’s Equation, , in two dimensions using nothing but Microsoft Excel. Introduction Heat transfer is a critical concept in...
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№ 77: Reflecting on 2023 Doubt, love and growing more into myself.
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When I wrote about open-air dining in seoul I thought nobody would care, but surprisingly I got quite a bit of comments and DMs from fellow covid-cautious travellers. I would keep on...
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Twelve Brutal Truths about AI Music Ignore the hype—here's what the bots will really do to our songs
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Why We Do Things We Hate Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as...
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Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as something that we are not. For example, I've longed to be a surfer for years. The idea fascinated me so much that I even booked several weeks of surf lessons in Costa Rica. Surfing...
Diaries of Note
The degradation machine is running Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom...
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Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom and truth during a period when both were under severe threat. In the midst of World War II, France had become an eerie silhouette of its former self, ruled by a government that had...
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Ambition and energy keep a man young Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet, born in 1879, who balanced an unassuming life in...
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Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet, born in 1879, who balanced an unassuming life in insurance with an illustrious literary career. While best known for his intricate and imaginative poems, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1955, Stevens also kept a journal...
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Stop Dribbbling, Get a Design Education at Costco My design mentor Paul was a commercial artist in Chicago in the era before computers, back when...
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My design mentor Paul was a commercial artist in Chicago in the era before computers, back when being a designer still involved ink-stained fingers and drawing pictures.
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A Confession from Ghost-O-Meter’s Creator I released Ghost-O-Meter with a secret. I realize now that it was a mistake.
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Hot weather is the mother of procrastination Although Thomas Edison filled numerous notebooks with writings pertaining to his groundbreaking...
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Although Thomas Edison filled numerous notebooks with writings pertaining to his groundbreaking inventions, he kept a personal diary only once in his eighty-four years. Spanning a period of just nine days in July of 1885, the diary was written when Edison was already renowned and...
Left To Write
#5 Writemas: The Way You Present Something Matters If you had asked me 5 years ago, “Would you do sales?” I would’ve looked at you with disgust. I’m...
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If you had asked me 5 years ago, “Would you do sales?” I would’ve looked at you with disgust. I’m introverted, typically quiet and observant. But as Bloomstory’s co-founder, it’s one of my roles within the business. In fact, I volunteered for it. Most of my responsibilities...
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The 5 Whys of Running If you ask "Why?" five times you can discover the motivation behind anything. At least that is what...
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If you ask "Why?" five times you can discover the motivation behind anything. At least that is what this simple interrogation method is supposed to do. It's never worked for me.
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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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...
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Abandon it in a garden and it may never catch anyone’s gaze. Lost in plain sight, it could be mistaken for an odd stone or the tip of a dark root protruding from the earth. The steel egg is alien, not beautiful in the way humans have decided is appropriate for display in art...
journal – Winnie Lim
happiness is a difficult thing to bear I am an unhappy person in general. But once in a while, an acute sense of awareness strikes me and I...
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I am an unhappy person in general. But once in a while, an acute sense of awareness strikes me and I experience the totality of that particular moment – I catch a...
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Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of technology: Progress Studies for Young Scholars. Daily online content, plus a speaker series featuring Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Joel Mokyr, Deirdre McCloskey, and more....
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If a manifesto is published on Medium and no one recommends it, does it make a sound? Anybody can write a manifesto and there is nothing that says it has to inspire anybody. But if you...
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Anybody can write a manifesto and there is nothing that says it has to inspire anybody. But if you are going to fill space with corporate jargon, what are you hoping to accomplish? Why would you share it with the world if you have nothing new to contribute?
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the capacity to be flexible I woke up yesterday with the intention to run, but the PSI had entered unhealthy ranges due to the...
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My oldest Friend is at last going to leave me Born in 1741 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, Hester Thrale belonged to the esteemed Salusbury family....
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Born in 1741 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, Hester Thrale belonged to the esteemed Salusbury family. Famous for her friendships with such luminaries as Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick, Thrale was a prominent figure of the period, and her writings, particularly the...
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I am absolutely convinced that George is going to lose When she wrote the following diary entry in October of 1992, First Lady Barbara Bush had been living...
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When she wrote the following diary entry in October of 1992, First Lady Barbara Bush had been living at the White House for more than three years and was accustomed to the constant scrutiny and pace of political life. Exactly a month later, as she predicted, Bill Clinton won the...
Both Are True
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co-existing with my broken mind I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding...
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I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding to reality in general. I don’t really get why people are not...
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A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and lessons learned
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Alexandra Feodorovna, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine on June 6, 1872. Twenty-two years later, she wed Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and adopted her new name. Her reign as Tsarina was turbulent, marked by her controversial...
Farza's Newsletter
pointed my tv remote at my microwave and then i met the Beatles, wild. What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to...
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What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to them on the phone. And, well, it does! That’s one way to talk to users. But, when I started Zip I wanted “talking to users” to be literally built into