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The Map is Mostly...
Designing a New Old Home: Defining Constraints Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came...
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Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents Beginnings — Why an “old” home, and how we came to buy land Curiosity — Advice on starting Research, Sketch, Collect — Essential research for home design Defining Constraints ← You are here The Elements
Stoic Simple
The Most Powerful Lesson To Be Learned From Stoicism by Michael McGill There are a lot of powerful lessons to be learned from the ancient philosophy of...
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by Michael McGill There are a lot of powerful lessons to be learned from the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Stoicism gives us ways of thinking to help us to be mentally stronger. It teaches us mental frameworks that allow us to live more tranquil lives. But there's one lesson...
The Honest Broker
The Death of the Slow Dance (and Other Emerging Trends) My latest briefing paper on the state of the creative economy
a year ago
The Convivial...
The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 13
over a year ago
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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5 months ago
Everything I’m learning about uselessness, thriving, and not needing to scale from our backyard ginkgo tree.
Passing Time
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory Why do we forget what we want to remember and remember what we want to forget?
a year ago
The Honest Broker
How Coffee Became a Joke The crisis at Starbucks is a sign of our un-serious times
a year ago
The Honest Broker
My Rule of the 6 Spheres Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very...
a year ago
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a year ago
Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very seriously—it's at the heart of my worldview and keeps me on the right path
DYNOMIGHT
Fahren-height The Internet is well into middle-age, and yet doesn’t seem to have answered humanity’s most pressing...
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a year ago
The Internet is well into middle-age, and yet doesn’t seem to have answered humanity’s most pressing question: If you pour boiling hot water from various heights, how much does it cool in flight? First attempt I figure there are two key variables: The height you pour from, and...
The Honest Broker
Is There Such a Thing as Western Harmony? Does anyone really own music theory, and who gets to decide?
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
A veritable organ concert It was May of 1967, and Che Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, was in Bolivia,...
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It was May of 1967, and Che Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, was in Bolivia, leading a small band of guerrillas in an attempt to spread socialism across Latin America. Facing harsh environmental conditions and the pressure of the Bolivian military backed by US...
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
The Role of Nature in Stoic Philosophy Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece and has continued to influence modern...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece and has continued to influence modern thought. One of its central ideas is the concept of living in accordance with nature. In this article, we'll explore how nature plays a critical role in the Stoic worldview and how it...
Diaries of Note
Why am I always struggling to get them to blend? In March of 1976, Eleanor Coppola and her family waved goodbye to their home in California and...
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a year ago
In March of 1976, Eleanor Coppola and her family waved goodbye to their home in California and headed for the Philippines, the filming location for her husband’s next film, Apocalypse Now. As the lush landscape of the Southeast Asian archipelago sprawled out before them, little...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible Knowing when not to talk is an art.
7 months ago
RhysTranter.com
The Letters of Thomas Merton I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Charlie Becker
The Individual Magic of Their Genius Introducing the Enchanter Series
over a year ago
The Convivial...
Reading As Counter-Practice The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 19
over a year 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...
The Ruffian
Maybe Your Opinion Is Just a Feeling About a Story On Changing My Mind About the Elgin Marbles. Plus: How To Get Hold of An Advance Copy of 'John &...
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7 months ago
On Changing My Mind About the Elgin Marbles. Plus: How To Get Hold of An Advance Copy of 'John & Paul'. Plus a Juicy Rattle Bag of Goodies.
The Tao Of Wealth
How To Live Slowly and Simply In A Frantic World This post is about how you can choose to slow down, how you can step off the ever-revolving carousel...
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over a year ago
This post is about how you can choose to slow down, how you can step off the ever-revolving carousel of want-buy-want upgrade, opt out of the comparison games, stop cramming a month’s worth of engagements into a weekend, refuse to live your life according to trends, tread lighter...
Diaries of Note
Chaos ashore On 6th June 1944, approximately 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy in an effort...
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On 6th June 1944, approximately 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy in an effort to reclaim France from Nazi control. One of those brave souls, attached to the Sherwood Rangers tank regiment, was Reverend Leslie Skinner, a remarkable, compassionate man who was...
The Map is Mostly...
School is Not Enough Learning is a consequence of doing
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
For the love of God, give me a flea! Born in 1880 in the mining town of Diamantina, Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant was in her sixties when...
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Born in 1880 in the mining town of Diamantina, Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant was in her sixties when she found fame, for it was then that her teenage diary was published to wide acclaim. Written under the pseudonym Helena Morley between the ages of 12 and 15, the diary tells the...
Naveen Arun's Blog
Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone A Graduate Student’s Attempt to Find Sunshine as the Cloud Reigns Summary: I tried doing my laundry...
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a year ago
A Graduate Student’s Attempt to Find Sunshine as the Cloud Reigns Summary: I tried doing my laundry without a smartphone. This proved to be difficult, since our laundry machines can only be operated with a smartphone app. After lots of struggle, I finally managed to do it,...
Diaries of Note
Almost flying apart at the seams In the spring of 1965, American author Gail Godwin found herself at a crossroads. For five years,...
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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...
Both Are True
i failed vs. i'm a failure the life-changing magic of the failure bow
a month ago
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 29 Hot Streaks and Cohort-Based Courses
over a year ago
Both Are True
there's so much i want to tell you here i go
9 months ago
Daily Stoic
Goal Setting: A Philosophical Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” — Epictetus What do the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” — Epictetus What do the goals we set, whether personal or professional, require? If we hope to accomplish our goals, we need the discipline to hold ourselves accountable. We need the self-control to stay...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Selling Digital The idea of selling digital products is growing on me. Firstly, the simplicity and speed of...
over a year ago
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The idea of selling digital products is growing on me. Firstly, the simplicity and speed of delivering a digital product is far greater than that of a physical one—logistically speaking. Secondly, and probably most importantly, the zero shipping costs involved, and all the risk,...
The Ruffian
The Story Behind the Greatest Guitar Solo in Rock History The Dark Energies Behind Prince's Moment of Genius
10 months ago
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
3 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
How We Lost the Ability to Listen In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources of wisdom and guidance
Both Are True
Would you pay me $25 to attend one of these workshops??? Or: Russell Nohelty teaches me how to get the f out of my own way as a writer
3 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Boosters and Drainers Life hacks have their place but there is only so much you can do before your life devolves into a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Life hacks have their place but there is only so much you can do before your life devolves into a chaotic mess. I prefer the idea of building a personal system.
Diaries of Note
God help our poor planet in the grip of this madness! World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star...
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World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star of a series of children’s books first published in 1945 that has since been translated into dozens of languages and enjoyed by millions. But before Pippi captured the imaginations...
Ryan Hoover's...
Why YourStack failed
a year ago
The Honest Broker
30 Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-pocalypse The Age of Information has come to a brutal end—here's how it happened
over a year ago
Jason Crawford
The lessons of Xanadu One of my all-time favorite articles is “The Curse of Xanadu,” by Gary Wolf, which ran in WIRED...
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One of my all-time favorite articles is “The Curse of Xanadu,” by Gary Wolf, which ran in WIRED Magazine in 1995. On the surface, it’s a piece of tech history, a story of a dramatic failure. But look closer, and you can find deep philosophical insight. Xanadu was a grand vision...
The Honest Broker
Two Robots Talk About Me Behind My Back And other updates on previous stories
3 months ago
The Honest Broker
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing? This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Society is not geared to the expression of compassion In 1942, shortly before the US joined the war, editor and lifelong pacifist Alfred Hassler...
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In 1942, shortly before the US joined the war, editor and lifelong pacifist Alfred Hassler registered as a conscientious objector. However, his commitment to nonviolence led him to refuse even the alternative to combat service: enrollment in a Civilian Public Service camp, as...
Farza's Newsletter
drinking chai with xi jinping talking about the nintendo gamecube Obsession is a pretty powerful thing. It’s awesome how you can get obsessed with something and spend...
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Obsession is a pretty powerful thing. It’s awesome how you can get obsessed with something and spend all your energy just being obsessed with that thing. Some of my favorite musicians are like that. Matt Bellamy from Muse would always talk about how he’s just been obsessed with...
Farza's Newsletter
just drank green tea liquid death and now 15mg of caffeine is coursing through my gd veins bim bop boom boom boom bop bam
4 months ago
The Convivial...
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
11 months ago
The Ruffian
Barbearheimer Notes on Barbie, Oppenheimer, and The Bear
a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Decentralized Startups
over a year ago
Both Are True
Stop being a philistine and read some good books A conversation w writer, critic, and lover of the classics Henry Oliver on BOTH ARE TRUE LIVE
4 months ago
The Prism
Why Everything is Becoming a Game All the better to control you
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
to be willing to search I broke a personal distance record yesterday while running very slowly, though my current “slow”...
over a year ago
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I broke a personal distance record yesterday while running very slowly, though my current “slow” speed would spike my heart rate at least by 10bpm just a few weeks ago. I accomplished...
Luxagraf:...
Bus and Repair Q & A I got a lot of questions about the bus, life on the road, repairing things, and more. I will...
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I got a lot of questions about the bus, life on the road, repairing things, and more. I will probably write something up as well at some point, but for now I thought I'd make a video to answer a few of the more frequently asked questions. Watch on YouTube Apologies for the...
Isabel Unraveled
make more, care less what if i just published waaaaay more?
7 months ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Compass Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily...
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Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily life. I've touched on my design ethos before, but this feels like something more personal. It's a lightweight breakdown of who I am, both as a designer and a human, shaped by the...
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...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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?
The Honest Broker
Can You Fool the Audience? The future of culture may depend on this question—and the answer is now evident
2 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
My First Golden Combover My design education had indoctrinated me with belief in the purity of flat design. I was a true...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My design education had indoctrinated me with belief in the purity of flat design. I was a true believer. I was faced with a moral dilemma on my very first assignment. What did I do?
The Ruffian
We're All Viennese Now On a Royal Suicide Pact and Ages of Anxiety
2 months ago
Tech and Tea
Seasonal Changes Finding space and time to sloooooow down
a year ago
The Honest Broker
10 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now My life is pretty much like yours. Except that total strangers send me all sorts of things.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The World's Largest Search Doesn't Want You to Search Why is Google abandoning its core mission?
4 months ago
The Prism
The Cure to Misinformation is More Misinformation Why we need fake news to know what's true
over a year ago
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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11 months ago
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...
The Honest Broker
The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass I praise his work as a composer—but also as plumber, taxi driver, steel mill worker, and other...
11 months ago
The Honest Broker
My Search for Hidden Meanings in Beatles Songs Before the Internet, we often had no idea what hit songs were about
7 months ago
The Honest Broker
"This Is a Hell of a Statement I'm About to Make—But He Superseded Miles" More on the mystery of Dupree Bolton, and updates on other recent articles.
a year ago
Left To Write
№ 63: They Accused Me of Collusion, Confiscated My $$$ and Taught Me A Priceless Lesson In Real Risk From fleecing Chinese Players to being fleeced - The Ludic Fallacy - Avoiding being a sucker - The...
a year ago
The Intimate Mirror
Guide to Healing the Father Wound A practical guide on discerning legitimate authority and rebuilding faith in the sacred order of...
5 months ago
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: smears and revelations In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2023.
Charlie Becker
Good Lessons from Bad Men Paradoxical lessons in masculinity from crime cinema
over a year ago
Rubenerd
Over/under with Lazybear Your favourite bear and mine recently posed a series of topics to me, and asked me to evaluate if...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Your favourite bear and mine recently posed a series of topics to me, and asked me to evaluate if they’re either underrated, or overrated. This immediately reminded me of the lyrics to that OK Go song, which is now almost a decade old. Upside down and inside out…! Anyway, to the...
Diaries of Note
The hate stare was everywhere practiced In November 1959, at a time of profound racial tension and segregation in the American South,...
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In November 1959, at a time of profound racial tension and segregation in the American South, journalist John Howard Griffin embarked on a remarkable and controversial journey. In an attempt to better understand the Black American experience, Griffin underwent a medical treatment...
Letters of Note
I’ve got a hunch In July of 1938, American novelist Thomas Wolfe was struck down with pneumonia and taken to...
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In July of 1938, American novelist Thomas Wolfe was struck down with pneumonia and taken to hospital. He was soon diagnosed as having tuberculosis of the brain, from which he would never recover. Wolfe died on 15th September, aged just 37. A month before his death, as he lay in...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Fooling the Focus Groups Why car companies view their brands as a liability and what they are doing about it. Spoiler, It's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why car companies view their brands as a liability and what they are doing about it. Spoiler, It's a Chevy.
Farza's Newsletter
dropped french fry grease on my piano and the keys are so smooth now but my hands smell like old... Zip We’re just shipping so much stuff every week lol. It’s kinda ridiculous in an awesome way. We’re...
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over a year ago
Zip We’re just shipping so much stuff every week lol. It’s kinda ridiculous in an awesome way. We’re doing a good job at just focusing on delivering value to our users and building on what they’re telling us. Everything from the classes we choose to create to the features we...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Seven Minutes on David Letterman Abandon it in a garden and it may never catch anyone’s gaze. Lost in plain sight, it could be...
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over a year ago
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...
Mind Mine
have you noticed that rule is arbitrary? stop playing by Bad Rules
7 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
The Window of Opportunity is Here Don't get stuck in neutral
a year ago
Jason Fried
A company is a language Companies are akin to complex languages, each with its own unique dialect and cultural...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Companies are akin to complex languages, each with its own unique dialect and cultural nuances. And I think this explains why it’s so hard for executives — especially executives — to come in from outside an organization and find their way. At lower levels within an...
The Ruffian
A Brief History of Suburban Creativity The power of not being with the in-crowd
a year ago
Diaries of Note
On sculptures Born in Prague in 1875, celebrated poet Rainer Maria Rilke was twenty-two when he began to keep a...
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Born in Prague in 1875, celebrated poet Rainer Maria Rilke was twenty-two when he began to keep a diary—a practice encouraged by his lover and mentor, Lou Andreas-Salomé, who was fifteen years his senior. That diary, titled Florence, would be the first of three that he kept...
Atoms vs Bits
Don't Meet Me In The Middle Against journey centerism
8 months ago
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...
Abhishek Chakraborty
The Problem with Too Much Fairness We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it....
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We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it. Research shows that just to ensure shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
Passing Time
Your Social Universe Imagine yourself as a star.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
How to Dress Like Duke Ellington Today I offer fashion tips to clueless guys
a year ago
Paul Cudenec
Adolf Hitler and the zio-imperialist mafia A book review
2 months ago
Both Are True
today's batwrite starts in 25 minutes at 830am est and according to multiple sources on both sides of various aisles, 'you're not gonna...
a month ago
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a month ago
at 830am est and according to multiple sources on both sides of various aisles, 'you're not gonna wanna miss this'
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Good Interviews In early 2019, I came to the realisation that people prefer to read about people more than they do...
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over a year ago
In early 2019, I came to the realisation that people prefer to read about people more than they do about things. It’s not exactly a phenomenon, but it was significant for the editorial direction of Minimalissimo. Since relaunching the latest version of the site, you will notice a...
The Honest Broker
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 1 of 2) And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
over a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
You’re looking good (on Product Hunt) 😽
over a year ago
Paul Cudenec
Ignore the gaslighting - ZIM is real! The smears directed at those of us who expose and oppose ZIM (the zio-imperialist mafia) serve three...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The smears directed at those of us who expose and oppose ZIM (the zio-imperialist mafia) serve three distinct purposes.
The Ruffian
How the Bud Light Debacle Predicted America's Corporate Vibe Shift Lessons In Navigating The Culture War
5 months ago
The Intimate Mirror
The Future Breaking Through How Personal Crisis and Collective Transformation Call Each Other Forth (Breaking Open: Part 6)
6 months ago
Luxagraf:...
What Vanlife is Really Like I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to cruise around in an old vehicle, living the life, um, yeah, not all the time. Some of the time, sure. Maybe even most of the time, but there's a good bit of work to be done on the...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Flywheel Formula Do you know anyone like that, the type of person that seems unsinkable? No matter what life throws...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do you know anyone like that, the type of person that seems unsinkable? No matter what life throws at them they persevere. Every blow makes them stronger, they always come out on top, and they make it look so easy.
Passing Time
What Makes a Local? Eventually, I'll be a local of somewhere
11 months ago
Luxagraf:...
Niagara Fails We left Long Point Canada bright and early, headed back to the United States to check out Niagara...
a year ago
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a year ago
We left Long Point Canada bright and early, headed back to the United States to check out Niagara Falls. We originally planned to see the falls from the Canadian side because the view is better, but then there was a lot of traffic and on the map it didn't look like there was much...
journal – Winnie Lim
the beach I’ve had an affinity with the beach since I was young. Every time I had the opportunity to take a...
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I’ve had an affinity with the beach since I was young. Every time I had the opportunity to take a vacation, it would almost always be the beach. My younger self would...
Ryan Hoover's...
How to make new friends as an adult
a year ago
Mind Mine
approaching life with ease the essence of living effortlessly
11 months ago
Diaries of Note
The degradation machine is running Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism for Athletes: Why Stoic Philosophy is Perfect for Sports In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of Stoic philosophy in various...
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over a year ago
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of Stoic philosophy in various aspects of life, including sports. Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that emphasizes the development of self-control, rationality, and resilience in the face of adversity. By...
journal – Winnie Lim
being creative is not just about making things I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my various life stages. For a long time it was tied to my identity...
Diaries of Note
How could such courage be? On 20th July 1969, the world held its collective breath as the Apollo 11 mission made its historic...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 20th July 1969, the world held its collective breath as the Apollo 11 mission made its historic landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong’s immortal words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” echoing around the globe and cementing the moment as a...
Paul Cudenec
For localism and the love of humanity I have been writing a lot recently about Zionism, as is sadly unavoidable for anyone genuinely...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I have been writing a lot recently about Zionism, as is sadly unavoidable for anyone genuinely intent on exploring and exposing the nature of the single global mafia.
The Ruffian
Lessons In How Not To Lead From the Dept. of What Were They Thinking
a year ago
Left To Write
#2 Writemas Rekindling Your Child Like Wonder
a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Reflecting on Minimalissimo I was recently asked what my values are in life. It's a very tough question to answer without...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was recently asked what my values are in life. It's a very tough question to answer without throwing out one word answers off the top of your head. And that's pretty meaningless unless you're prepared to elaborate on that word and what it means in relation to your life and...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
No More Side Projects Generally speaking, side projects are great things. They offer us opportunities to create something...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Generally speaking, side projects are great things. They offer us opportunities to create something new. Sometimes these are merely hobbies and sometimes these are projects we’d like to pursue as a potential career. They all have to start somewhere, right? Over the past five...
The Ruffian
Britain's Peculiar Brand of Patriotism, In Three Ads Heroes To Zeroes
a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
FormFeelingFunction® Sometimes things need to end so we can create something new. Essentially, what's ending is...
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Sometimes things need to end so we can create something new. Essentially, what's ending is Minimalissimo, and what's beginning is a creative lab I’ve named FFF. I feel like I've done my part in curating beautiful minimalism on the web over the past 12+ years. Now, I’m ready to...
Diaries of Note
The sight that met us was beyond anything one could conceive Few archaeologists can claim to have felt the surge of exhilaration that Howard Carter did on 27th...
a year ago
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My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved. As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
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Farza's Newsletter
me and the beatles just ate some waffles in tokyo I've raised $12M for my company + hired amazing people -- and until very recently, whenever anyone...
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I've raised $12M for my company + hired amazing people -- and until very recently, whenever anyone would ask me my 10-year plan I would flat out say "I have no idea".
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Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings...
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The sound of failure Few individuals have shaped the sound and trajectory of modern music quite like Brian Eno. Born in...
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Few individuals have shaped the sound and trajectory of modern music quite like Brian Eno. Born in 1948 in Suffolk, England, Eno initially rose to fame as a member of the glam rock band Roxy Music in the early 1970s. Since then, he has carved out a niche as a visionary in the...
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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...
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Diana forgot to steer Few people witnessed the tumultuous events of mid-20th century Britain quite like Duff Cooper, a...
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Few people witnessed the tumultuous events of mid-20th century Britain quite like Duff Cooper, a charismatic politician whose life was as colourful as it was influential. Born in 1890, he was known as a steadfast politician who famously resigned from his government post over the...
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The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics and the Exploitation Problem In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum...
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In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics says that you can have a particle spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time – until you look at it, at which point it definitely becomes one or the other....
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pandemic grief and sadness One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know...
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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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biometrics pre, during & post-covid A couple of weeks ago I received a notification from my apple watch that there were some new health...
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A couple of weeks ago I received a notification from my apple watch that there were some new health trends from the health app: Obviously this is because I had covid: being...
Both Are True
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Water Under The Bridge Halfway through our stay on St. George we had a little problem called Friday night. The problem was...
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Halfway through our stay on St. George we had a little problem called Friday night. The problem was that the campground at St George was full for Friday night. One night missing in a string of twelve nights. We knew that when we came out here, but I was really hoping something...
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this is what it sounds like when dads cry Sad Dad, Mad Dad, and the headbangers bawl
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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...
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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....
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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.
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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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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...
Daniel Bourke
Building a garden in the backyard I started building a garden in the backyard. It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get...
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I started building a garden in the backyard. It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get going. A year! Mostly because of laziness and other things going on. A little dream I have is to one day eat a full feast that consists 100%
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So here I am, two hours into my sixty-sixth year Born in 1936 in Hampshire, England, Simon Gray was a prolific playwright whose later years saw him...
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Born in 1936 in Hampshire, England, Simon Gray was a prolific playwright whose later years saw him acclaimed for The Smoking Diaries, a series of insightful, often irreverent memoirs in which he delves deep into the human experience, tackling themes of ageing, vulnerability, and...
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CORONACION DAY On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles...
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On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles II was crowned king, heralding the restoration of the monarchy and the end of political turmoil. The Abbey was resplendently adorned in reds that day, and the finest of garments...
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They were struck with terror On the morning of 3rd August 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus departed the Spanish town...
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On the morning of 3rd August 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus departed the Spanish town of Palos de la Frontera and embarked on what would become a monumental voyage across the unknown Atlantic, one that would forever alter the course of human history. Steering three...
Left To Write
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A Moment at the Shore It's Good Friday. 7AM. I don't particularly care about the significance of today, but it's a bank...
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It's Good Friday. 7AM. I don't particularly care about the significance of today, but it's a bank holiday and I've got the day off work, but instead of having a relaxing morning, I hit the gym for an early session. Energised by the sunrise of a beautiful spring day, I decide to...
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What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative Industries
The Intimate Mirror
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099 on Product Hunt If you're unfamiliar with Product Hunt, it's a platform used to share and discover new digital...
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If you're unfamiliar with Product Hunt, it's a platform used to share and discover new digital products. Its usefulness has probably waned a lot in recent years unless you're prepared to inject an advertising budget, but I still think there's value in sharing projects...
The Honest Broker
Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out? Is it really okay to take the money and run?
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Both Are True
Love myself? Knowing what I know? A lunchtime meditation on whether 'being the best' is even a real thing
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We don't have time, we are time. | Friday Footnotes #4 Footnote #4 is based on a passage from 4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
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The news from remote France grows more ominous every day Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life...
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Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life in the trenches and his criticism of the conflict. In 1918, he had already gained recognition for his poetry, with his first collection, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, published...
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This is the last installment in our Japan2025 blog post series, at least as told as a post about recent events. Last we spoke, we’d boarded from Haneda for our flight back to Sydney. It was late in the afternoon, which did give us half a day in Japan to explore a few more places...
Daily Stoic
How To Find And Keep Joy Today it’s all about passion. Find your passion. Live passionately. Inspire the world with your...
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over a year ago
Today it’s all about passion. Find your passion. Live passionately. Inspire the world with your passion. Passion, we tell ourselves, is the source of joy. The Stoics disagreed. In fact, they believed that passion(s) were what contributed to our misery. To the experts and gurus...
The Ruffian
The Google Gemini Debacle Shows Us Why Office Politics Matters More Than Ever On the Real Alignment Problem
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15 Years of Loving Curation In my previous post, I mentioned that Minimalissimo was coming to an end and that I'd be embarking...
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In my previous post, I mentioned that Minimalissimo was coming to an end and that I'd be embarking on a new adventure with FormFeelingFunction®. Well, I think it's worth explaining the site's journey, impact, and inevitable sunset. Because it has played a significant role in my...
Both Are True
HERE IS THE REAL LINK FOR BATWRITE the last one didn't work is what people are telling me
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How to Be Successful in Life The internet is inundated with countless videos and advice columns promising to teach you how to...
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The internet is inundated with countless videos and advice columns promising to teach you how to become more successful than 99% of the world's population. Most of these claims revolve around setting goals, developing discipline, and eliminating distractions. But let's face it:...
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Rituals Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you...
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Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you hear this word, where does your mind take you? For me, I find myself asking, what's the difference between a ritual and routine? Turns out that, in essence, routines are practical,...
Both Are True
The meet-cute (rom com, Act One) a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury,...
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a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying everything
Tech and Tea
Reader Mailbag: Struggling to do it all A reader writes in with questions about technical up-skilling, finding balance in life and work, and...
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A reader writes in with questions about technical up-skilling, finding balance in life and work, and getting in touch with their identity outside of work.
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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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...
The Prism
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The Best Things I Read or Watched in April 2024 | Castles in the Sky Links These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you...
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These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you can click the link to take you straight to that part of the article. Cosmographia by M. E. Rothwell “On reaching the age of the TV anti-hero” by Erik Hoel
The Ruffian
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Tabiboo sant, tabiboo sant! In March of 1834, 25-year-old John Kirk Townsend was invited by fellow naturalist Thomas Nuttall to...
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In March of 1834, 25-year-old John Kirk Townsend was invited by fellow naturalist Thomas Nuttall to join him on an expedition across the Rocky Mountains, his role being to collect and identify birds and mammals as they journeyed. Before long, Townsend, a keen ornithologist,...
The Honest Broker
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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...
Atoms vs Bits
Alien Intelligence I regularly commune with an alien intelligence (my cat)
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The Honest Broker
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Stoic Simple
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/_W0xAHnxe6o Because suffering is an unavoidable part of the human experience and worries many of us, we can find many helpful quotes about it from the Stoics. Practicing Stoicism doesn't make us immune to pain, hardships and suffering . . . but it...
The Honest Broker
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Jason Crawford
What I still want out of time management tools I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system...
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I made my first todo list almost 25 years ago. Ever since, I’ve been evolving my tools and system for tracking tasks, managing time, and improving productivity. A personal productivity toolbox is a very personal and contextual thing. I find that my own systems have to be revised...
Atoms vs Bits
New Book: Book It's a book about being a book. Book book book book.
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Diaries of Note
I’m getting more confident and angrier each time From the age of fourteen Jack Kerouac could often be found carrying a spiral notebook in which to...
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From the age of fourteen Jack Kerouac could often be found carrying a spiral notebook in which to record his thoughts, frustrations, and aspirations. When he wrote the following journal entry in September of 1948, Kerouac was twenty-six and his first novel, The Town and the City,...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Phone Setup 2021 An annual review of the minimal phone setup sees it considerably different from last year, yet a lot...
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An annual review of the minimal phone setup sees it considerably different from last year, yet a lot has remained the same. I am still rocking the iPhone 11 with no immediate desire to upgrade. Don't get me wrong, I think the iPhone 12 is a far better design than the 11, but I...
The Honest Broker
Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business I offer a forecast for 10 years in the future—and it's filled with good news (surprise!)
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bookbear express
dating is hard... what are we going to do about it? matchmaking is open + in-person party signup
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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...
journal – Winnie Lim
chiang mai’s sketchbook I had only managed to complete roughly one-third of the sketchbook during the trip, and didn’t work...
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I had only managed to complete roughly one-third of the sketchbook during the trip, and didn’t work on it when we first got back. This happened to both my sketchbooks last year...
Left To Write
Nashing Out How Playing Good Poker Connects With Behavioural Economics
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Daniel Bourke
Home alone on a Saturday night Got caught in thought space today. Ideas galore, activities here and there, actions minimal, lots of...
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over a year ago
Got caught in thought space today. Ideas galore, activities here and there, actions minimal, lots of standing around watching not enough touching. Like the guy with a crush on a girl but never says anything. So I took a step outside thought space. And found gravity. Twenty...
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The Honest Broker
An Executive Briefing Paper on the Creative Economy Here's my latest culture and arts survey
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Diaries of Note
 How utterly mad it all is Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was...
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Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was profound. Raised amid the racial turbulence of 1930s Chicago, she channelled her experiences into A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play that earned her three distinctions: the...
Both Are True
Babe wake up we’re sharing our fears Genuine thoughts I've had that have nothing to do with the election !!!
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The story behind how you stopped drawing Mental blind spots, actively losing control, finding beauty in novelty, and a new app for unlearning...
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