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Jason Fried
Don't delegate your word As you build your business, you'll end up delegating plenty. Much of what you did before is now...
a year ago
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a year ago
As you build your business, you'll end up delegating plenty. Much of what you did before is now better done by someone else. To make more progress, you release your grip and allow. But there’s one thing you should hold tight and never let go. It’s the thing that should never be...
Charlie Becker
"Dada, slow down!" Fatherhood at Thirty-Thousand Feet A letter from a father flying solo with his toddler
a year ago
The Ruffian
The Sunak Question Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
The 30-Day First Draft Challenge Can I Finish a Novel First Draft in a Month?
10 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Crémieux, j’accuse I don’t know how to internet, but I know you’re supposed to get into beefs. In the nearly five years...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I don’t know how to internet, but I know you’re supposed to get into beefs. In the nearly five years this blog has existed, the closest I’ve come was once politely asking Slime Mold Time Mold, “Hello, would you like to have a beef?” They said, “That sounds great but we’re really...
Jason Fried
Separation In my experience, a key skill to develop is the ability to separate one thing from another. To...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my experience, a key skill to develop is the ability to separate one thing from another. To prevent the small from becoming the all. Take a policy, for example. Could be a government, or a school, or a home owner’s association, or something at work. Whatever it is, you don’t...
journal – Winnie Lim
some ruminations on the inherent dislike of my self [cw: suicidal thoughts] I guess this does not come as a surprise to anyone – I think I have an...
a year ago
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a year ago
[cw: suicidal thoughts] I guess this does not come as a surprise to anyone – I think I have an inherent dislike for my self. No one who inherently likes them selves...
Passing Time
So We Won't Forget Why do we film concerts?
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Fruity Cereal Version of Your Predicament A dazed bunny landed inches from my head. It was the night before a race, the precious hours of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A dazed bunny landed inches from my head. It was the night before a race, the precious hours of sleep before my 4am wake up call.
The Convivial...
The Pathologies of the Attention Economy The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16
over a year ago
Daniel Bourke
5 Free Resources to Help You Get a Machine Learning Job Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and practice, practice, practice!
bookbear express
some thoughts on friendship + reading recs
4 months ago
Both Are True
how can I write when *gestures at…everything* between certainty and silence, a third path "forward"
3 months ago
The Honest Broker
How to Dress Like Duke Ellington Today I offer fashion tips to clueless guys
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
The End of the Road For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End of the Road. It was an incomplete idea, but it seems to me we are, culturally, at the end of a metaphor when it comes to The Road. I had the idea that you could trace a thread...
The Ruffian
Seduced By The Machine Why We Allow Apps and Corporations To Tell Us How To Live
a year ago
Rubenerd
Image loading times I apologise that the site has been a bit slow since it suddenly turned into a travel blog. My plan...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I apologise that the site has been a bit slow since it suddenly turned into a travel blog. My plan was to roll out my poor man’s CDN before we left, but I ran out of time. It’s definitely not just a nginx GeoIP lookup that refers image requests to a different cloud instance...
The Honest Broker
How 'American Graffiti' Invented Classic Rock (and Changed My Life) My favorite George Lucas film turns 50 tomorrow, and I love it for the soundtrack—but for a whole...
a year ago
The Ruffian
Leslie's Razors Nine Rules of Thumb For Life
a year ago
The Prism
Why Everything is Becoming a Game All the better to control you
a year ago
The Honest Broker
How Do You Celebrate Truman Capote's 100th Birthday? Today is his centenary, but is Capote a hero or just an embarrassment?
9 months ago
The Map is Mostly...
The Oak and the Reed Dear friends, there is a tale, The oak one day said to the reed: You have good reason to curse...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dear friends, there is a tale, The oak one day said to the reed: You have good reason to curse nature — A simple sparrow for you is a heavy burden. The slightest wind that by chance Makes the face of the water ripple Forces you to lower your head. However my own forehead, Not...
Paul Cudenec
Truth, essence, knowledge and light Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after all, you do not really care what they think of you.
Laetitia@Work
Future of Work: 9 books I read in 2023 Laetitia@Work #65
a year ago
Charlie Becker
Behind the Scenes of the Annual Review 2022 Last week, I wrote my first public Annual Review, read it here! I did two exercises to prepare for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, I wrote my first public Annual Review, read it here! I did two exercises to prepare for my annual review and explore what might be fun for me to write and interesting for others to read. After sharing both of these with a few friends, they encouraged me to polish them...
Diaries of Note
Good work, Clifton Few writers bring humour to the page quite like David Sedaris. Born in Johnson City, New York in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Few writers bring humour to the page quite like David Sedaris. Born in Johnson City, New York in 1956, he has a singular talent for spotting and magnifying the absurdities of everyday life, and in 1997 that talent was recognised when Ira Glass, the host of This American Life,...
The Ruffian
Is Culture Dying? And if it is, should we mourn it?
9 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
my strange relationship with time I have a strange relationship with time. On one hand, I have time anxiety: the fear that time will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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,...
RhysTranter.com
Ignatius Loyola: A Saint Reads the Saints 31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus (more commonly known as the Jesuits). In a breviary, I come across a passage from the Acts of Saint Ignatius taken down by Luis Gonzalez, which describes the growing influence of...
Diaries of Note
I need solitude. I need space. I need air. English novelist Virginia Woolf was fifteen when she began her first diary; by the time of her death...
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a year ago
English novelist Virginia Woolf was fifteen when she began her first diary; by the time of her death in 1941, she had filled more than thirty handwritten volumes with reflections, observations, and personal struggles that offer a window into her complex mind. When she wrote the...
bookbear express
dissolution last day for matchmaking
5 months ago
bookbear express
a supposedly fun thing I'll probably do again book, blues, bliss
3 months ago
Paul Cudenec
The stench of the system: conspiracy Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression.
Atoms vs Bits
Modelling People Smarter Than Me Models of models of models
5 months ago
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!)
8 months ago
The Ruffian
Opposites Attract On the Gender Divide In Politics and Why It Might Just Save Us All
a year ago
Both Are True
BATCAVE LIVE #002 RECAP (PROFOUND) the minutes, the hours, the days, the little pleasures, the agenda jokes, the realization that we...
a month ago
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a month ago
the minutes, the hours, the days, the little pleasures, the agenda jokes, the realization that we are swarm + GLENNON DOYLE WATCH
The Honest Broker
Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker' Let me take you on a tour
a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Can I help?
over a year ago
The Ruffian
How to process news of the Israel-Hamas conflict A guide for the ignorant and perplexed like me
a year ago
The Ruffian
FLASHPOINTS #12: Are machines becoming more intelligent than us - and what does that even mean? A conversation with Professor David Krakauer
over a year ago
Both Are True
and baby makes four??? lauren and baby are healthy, i am unwell!
a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Change and authenticity
a year ago
Daniel Bourke
Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images) A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.
over a year ago
Daily Stoic
12 (Stoic) Rules For Life: An Ancient Guide to the Good Life It’d be wonderful if life never tempted you, if you could just go day-to-day, winging it and always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’d be wonderful if life never tempted you, if you could just go day-to-day, winging it and always do right. But that’s not how the world is. That’s not who you are. If left to our own devices, with enough opportunities, eventually we’ll mess up—we’ll drift, we’ll stray. That’s...
Luxagraf:...
Pensacola History From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge,...
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over a year ago
From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge, Big Lagoon. From our campsite there it was a short car ride to Perdido Key, which is another part of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Although it takes the better part of two hours...
Mind Mine
a return to soul bring back the Era of the Artist. not a political take.
7 months ago
Thu Le
Presence over performance A reflection on curating an online persona and choosing to live a quieter life.
4 months ago
Farza's Newsletter
just wiped my counter top with orange scented citric acid and now im fiending for orange juice wtf I made my first YouTube video in over a decade.
2 months ago
Letters of Note
I’ve got a hunch In July of 1938, American novelist Thomas Wolfe was struck down with pneumonia and taken to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Scarlet Ink
Inside a High-Severity Outage: A Late Night Sev-2 at Amazon A detailed narrative of how we communicated about, worked on, and resolved a technical mess we...
2 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Basketball, neo-imperialism and Zionism Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
5 months ago
Charlie Becker
Do the weirdest thing that feels right. From "what to write" to "how to live"
over a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Blogging is the New Resume
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
First Loop Fright Breakthrough success and catastrophic failure seem random at first, but they are more systematic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Breakthrough success and catastrophic failure seem random at first, but they are more systematic than they appear.
Diaries of Note
When in my hand thy pulse is prest, I feel it alter mine Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that...
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a year ago
Born in Yorkshire in 1791, Anne Lister was a landowner famed for keeping detailed diaries that totalled over four million words, a sixth of which was written in a code she devised to conceal her sexuality and intimate encounters. Discovered and deciphered by a descendant in the...
Diaries of Note
Blood, sweat and tears Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston...
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a year ago
Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston Churchill during the tumultuous years of World War II, and in this capacity had a front-row seat to some of the most consequential decisions and events of the 20th century. His diaries,...
Left To Write
#3 Writemas: Developing Taste Last week, on a Bloomstory team day out to the Design Museum in London, I said to my friend Myles,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, on a Bloomstory team day out to the Design Museum in London, I said to my friend Myles, “Given we’re in a creative field, it’s important we develop taste.” I know it’s subjective, but I’ve often wondered about how universal ‘good’ taste is. However, instead of driving...
Luxagraf:...
New York Work sent me to New York City in January, for an annual meeting. It's something I've avoided in the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Work sent me to New York City in January, for an annual meeting. It's something I've avoided in the past, but I was curious to see what New York City is like these days. The picture painted from the outside is quite grim, but if you learn anything from traveling it's that the...
bookbear express
Dear Bear: how to get over a crush, ex-friends at a wedding, and conflict + weekly recs
3 months ago
Stoic Simple
Successful Stoicism: How Stoics Deal with Success in Life Success is something that most people strive for, but few can handle it well. Ironically, success...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Success is something that most people strive for, but few can handle it well. Ironically, success often brings with it a whole host of new challenges and pressures. So how can one deal with the ups and downs of success in a healthy and productive way? One answer may lie in the...
The Ruffian
My Year In Reading Books I Read Or At Least Picked Up In 2023
a year ago
The Honest Broker
An Open Letter to Taylor Swift I'm asking a favor—but not for me. I want you to do a favor for the music.
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Aggressive Curiosity On the edge of a lake a man sits at a bench with a camera on his lap. His expression is satisfied,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On the edge of a lake a man sits at a bench with a camera on his lap. His expression is satisfied, the look of someone who has aimed at retirement and hit the bullseye a decade ahead of schedule. His life now has room for a hobby, he can become the wildlife photographer he has...
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...
over a year ago
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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...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Why Leaders Should Never Back Their Car In The culture of a company is a hard thing to suss out from the outside. When you are thinking about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The culture of a company is a hard thing to suss out from the outside. When you are thinking about switching jobs it can be hard to know what you are getting yourself into from interviews alone. Initial meetings are biased by employees who paint rosy pictures of the company in...
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky The reason I write
over a year ago
Stoic Simple
Students of Stoicism: Using Stoic Philosophy in Teaching & Education In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well academically, often at the cost of their emotional and mental well-being. As a result, many students struggle with stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem, which can impact their...
Daily Stoic
The 16 Greatest Lessons From 16 Years With Marcus Aurelius Just over sixteen years ago, I bought Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations on Amazon. Amazon Prime didn’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just over sixteen years ago, I bought Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations on Amazon. Amazon Prime didn’t exist then and to qualify for free shipping, I had to purchase a few other books at the same time. I was 19 years old. I didn’t know what Stoicism was. I didn’t know who Marcus...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
The Honest Broker
Live Music Is Coming Back! Is this the first stirring of a backlash against sanitized, algorithmic digital culture?
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
100 of My Favorite Things in Music (Part 1 of 2) And you can add some of your own
over a year ago
Tech and Tea
Do you keep your wishes secret? Have you ever hoped that someone would notice your good work and give you more opportunities? Would...
a year ago
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a year ago
Have you ever hoped that someone would notice your good work and give you more opportunities? Would that have been even more meaningful than if you asked for what you wanted, and got it?
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
The Honest Broker
How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop Let's look at the warning signs
11 months ago
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
Farza's Newsletter
drinking a spanish latte but i dont speak spanish is this legal I come from a Pakistani family. Unless your new initiative is a big success, you're a big flop. As a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I come from a Pakistani family. Unless your new initiative is a big success, you're a big flop. As a society, no matter where you're from -- we have a tendency to look at those that did something really hard, but didn't figure it out as a person who "failed".
Both Are True
BATWRITE tomorrow // Saturday // 830am est get some shit done and then start the weekend RIGHT
2 weeks ago
Atoms vs Bits
I Have Opinions About The Production Of Pizza The low-hanging fruit of pizza happiness, possibly
a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalissimo Shop V2 The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second project of the year has successfully shipped: Minimalissimo Shop Version 2. I don’t know why I held WordPress in such high regard for so many years—it’s Starbucks of the CMS world. So migrating my sites over to Kirby is a great feeling. The latest of which was the...
The Honest Broker
I Talk with an AI Music Historian Maybe a chatbot can teach me a few things
over a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Bruised Peach Problems They couldn't have been a contender
a month ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
A Japanese Ikigai is Bullsh*t And Won't Help You Figure Out Your Life Ignore the self-help gurus
5 months ago
Passing Time
UPPERCASE lowercase Andinbetvveen On stylized titling: the expanding canvas of musical expression
over a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Artificial Intelligence Natives
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Lambo for the People If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead of my normal essay I want to simply point you to a show that will surely appeal to fans of car design and haters of the crossover.
journal – Winnie Lim
pretension Lately I am trying to have more compassion for myself, but it has been a struggle. I tell myself...
a year ago
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a year ago
Lately I am trying to have more compassion for myself, but it has been a struggle. I tell myself just like I wouldn’t expect someone without a leg to run a marathon,...
journal – Winnie Lim
100 days of post-covid infection: state of mind, health & writing It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally...
a year ago
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a year ago
It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally in my morning pages. If I do develop long covid it would be...
Daniel Bourke
The subtle shade of the clouds Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too...
a year ago
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a year ago
Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too late. Not the farm garlic though. They’ve had practice. Over a thousand bulbs this year, maybe more. Tens of thousands of cloves. Garlic is the biggest harvest of
The Honest Broker
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing? This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork
a year ago
Both Are True
i want to be good but i am bad - help? at what point are we no longer able to change our brains?
a year ago
Both Are True
this is what it sounds like when dads cry Sad Dad, Mad Dad, and the headbangers bawl
11 months ago
Luxagraf:...
Stop Breaking Down I had a bad feeling pulling out of Washburn. The bus had sat for nearly four months. The bus hates...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had a bad feeling pulling out of Washburn. The bus had sat for nearly four months. The bus hates sitting. I had time to drive it to the upholstery shop and back and that was the extent of my test driving. I was hoping, whatever was going to break, would do it in a populous area...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Conflicts & Fighting with Family Members: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Nat Eliason's...
You're Not Struggling Alone If you're worried you don't have to worry
over a year ago
Both Are True
A running doc with my little thoughts you can interact with it and add stuff and have fun!!
4 months ago
The Ruffian
How To Fix DEI 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' That Works
a year ago
Paul Cudenec
Dreaming of an ancient peace Floresia: Out of the Shadows, a newly-published novel by Nowick Gray, whose work we featured in The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Floresia: Out of the Shadows, a newly-published novel by Nowick Gray, whose work we featured in The Acorn in 2023, has set me dreaming.
Stoic Simple
Understanding the Stoic Concept of Virtue . Stoicism is a philosophical school that originated in ancient Greece and went on to influence...
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over a year ago
. Stoicism is a philosophical school that originated in ancient Greece and went on to influence Roman thought. Its central tenets revolve around the attainment of personal happiness through the cultivation of virtues, which allow individuals to lead a life of tranquillity and...
Scarlet Ink
My 61k subscriber newsletter, about marketing, and a bit about relationships. An off-topic holiday... An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
6 months ago
Both Are True
The signal is the noise - how the sounds of an old ass calculator ended up on the website of the... You'd think it's boring but it's sorta cool and kinda wild how it's about everything but also...
11 months ago
The Honest Broker
Is Honest Writing the Next New Thing in Journalism? And 21 reasons why writers are dishonest
a year ago
The Ruffian
42 Reflections On the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything An oldie but goldie
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Other Side of the Road It seems overwhelming, doesn’t it? I mean that thing you are trying to do. Will it ever get done?...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems overwhelming, doesn’t it? I mean that thing you are trying to do. Will it ever get done? There is so much opposition. So much red tape, complexity, and chances for it to go horribly wrong.
Mind Mine
act, rest, repeat on finding the right doing-being balance
9 months ago
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
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
If I can paint three good pictures, then I shall go gladly Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due...
a year ago
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a year ago
Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due to complications after childbirth. Born in Germany in 1876, she had already established herself as a pioneering figure in the early expressionist art movement, and the hundreds of...
Diaries of Note
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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a year ago
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,...
Jason Crawford
Reflections on six months of fatherhood To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the spoon approaches. Second, you must close your mouth around the spoon once it has fully entered the mouth (and not before). Third, you must swallow the food that remains in your mouth...
Passing Time
An Ode to Manchester Wall A 19th-century bridge's contribution to climbing culture
a year ago
Mind Mine
to actualize yourself, actualize your ideas* *to completion! this part is very important!!
8 months ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Marriage: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next What exactly did the ancient Stoics think about marriage? It's true, there isn't a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previous Next What exactly did the ancient Stoics think about marriage? It's true, there isn't a huge amount of quotes to find from them specifically about marriage, although there are plenty about love, relationships and caring for people in our lives. It's worth keeping in mind...
Both Are True
full convo w claude about my demons lol and an actual convo with my meta-critic who, in the convo, I name Brad
4 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
scenes from tsukiji & asakusa Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at 740am because I read that the crowds will start to get crazy at...
The Honest Broker
Tens of Thousands of AI Users Now Believe ChatGPT Is God Is this mental illness—or the next major religion?
a month ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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....
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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,...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: We can still build beautifully A tour of interesting developments built in the last two decades
5 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
I just want to make art, man. My nostalgic love letter to my first design class described how professors open our eyes to an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My nostalgic love letter to my first design class described how professors open our eyes to an invisible world. I might have got it wrong.
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Why is the Boston Marathon So Slow? The perception is that the Boston Marathon is a fast race. True, the winners always post blazing...
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The perception is that the Boston Marathon is a fast race. True, the winners always post blazing fast times, but what about everyone else? It might surprise you to learn that that the majority of Boston participants perform far below their capabilities.
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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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Fort Pickens Just before new year's, Corrinne and the kids rejoined me at Big Lagoon. We had a quiet new year's...
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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...
Paul Cudenec
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The global industrial-financial complex has been doing its best for decades now to ensure there is no real ideological opposition to its life-hating agenda.
The Works in...
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experimenting with Obsidian Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the...
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Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the learnings I had from them – read through my personal lenses, layered with the...
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A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
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Why Is Music Getting Sadder? Songs are a cultural indicator—so what are they telling us right now?
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Barenbrug House In the summer of 2021 I made the decision to plan a house project. Not just to save, find, and buy a...
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In the summer of 2021 I made the decision to plan a house project. Not just to save, find, and buy a pre-existing house—that would be far too easy—and boring (unless you're doing an interesting renovation). Instead, my partner and I are opting to buy a plot of land in Scotland...
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The following letter was written exactly 100 years ago. It’s a remarkable piece of writing that never fails to move me. And because you deserve it, above the transcript I’ve included audio of the letter being read by the lovely Juliet Stevenson, taken from the Letters of Note:...
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There's a famous British politics quote where the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, aka Supermac, is asked the hardest thing about government and replies “Events, dear boy, events”. This probably never happened and is absolutely irrelevant to this blogpost regardless, but I...
Diaries of Note
His first remark was, taking up a book: “Human skin” Arnold Bennett was one of the most successful British novelists of the Victorian era, a prolific...
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Arnold Bennett was one of the most successful British novelists of the Victorian era, a prolific wordsmith whose output spanned 34 novels, seven collections of short stories, a dozen plays, and hundreds of articles—and amidst it all, he somehow found time to keep a daily diary...
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The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises Here's how you kill an entire genre
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Drive My Car After last summer's sprint north, we swore we'd never try to move that fast again. We are heading...
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After last summer's sprint north, we swore we'd never try to move that fast again. We are heading back down south for the winter, but we're going to take months to get there. We're going to wander, at a leisurely pace, stopping frequently, the way we traveled when we first set...
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Poor wreck that I am John L’Heureux, a renowned Massachusetts-born novelist and poet, spent seventeen years of his life...
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John L’Heureux, a renowned Massachusetts-born novelist and poet, spent seventeen years of his life as a Jesuit before embracing the literary world. On June 11th, 1966, after twelve years of rigorous study, he was ordained as a priest. During the three years leading up to this...
Rubenerd
Over/under with Lazybear Your favourite bear and mine recently posed a series of topics to me, and asked me to evaluate if...
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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...
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Terry Gibbs Celebrates His 100th Birthday—but Why Isn't He a NEA Jazz Master? A newly-discovered recording from 1959 reminds us of this artist's greatness
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Stoic Simple
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by Bob Cymber Most Stoics are aware of the famous "Dichotomy of Control." In this view, there are things that are directly under our influence and things that are not directly under our influence (although those who know about modern Stoic William Irvine’s commentary realize that...
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Over the past decade I tend to turn to books on buddhism whenever I feel down. I wouldn’t consider myself religious or a buddhist, and I don’t really fully agree wth much...
The Ruffian
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Both Are True
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at 830am est and according to multiple sources on both sides of various aisles, 'you're not gonna wanna miss this'
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has endured for thousands of years, influencing and inspiring countless individuals. While it has had many great thinkers throughout history who contributed to its development, there are ten in particular whose legacies have left the greatest impact...
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Mind Mine
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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...
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Rational, Not Reactive This week I was faced with an unusual situation. I was blocked on Twitter and Instagram by an...
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This week I was faced with an unusual situation. I was blocked on Twitter and Instagram by an account I have followed for a long time. An account and company I have supported in various formats, and one that I have actually invested in. Sounds odd, right? Do I need to call them...
Charlie Becker
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Both Are True
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Diaries of Note
A decaying mass of flesh and bone Remembered chiefly for his short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hamlin Garland earned praise...
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Remembered chiefly for his short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hamlin Garland earned praise for his vivid portrayals of Midwestern life, and for finding the profound in the mundane. Born in Wisconsin in 1860, it was in 1898 that Garland began to keep a daily diary in...
Diaries of Note
Art is local On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his...
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On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his creations at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Russia in 1899, Soyer emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1912, eventually becoming a prominent figure in the Social...
DYNOMIGHT
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That you can apparently learn to meditate your way into a state of profound relaxation and bliss and pleasure on par with heroin or orgasm, which was certainly not on my bingo card, which is good because bliss is good, and also because it’s cool that there can still be huge...
Daniel Bourke
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Laetitia@Work
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Mind Mine
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In a world that often emphasizes material success and external validation, it can be difficult to find true fulfillment. Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that emphasizes personal virtue, inner resilience, and self-awareness, offers a roadmap for finding inner peace and...
Passing Time
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What do Thomas Aquinas, Pope Gregory I, and Walker Robinson of Your Neighbors have in common?
Tech and Tea
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What paid subscribers and Founding Members will get in 2025: coaching tools, snack boxes, ad hoc coaching sessions, and behind-the-scenes experiments.
DYNOMIGHT
Bayes is not a phase People make fun of techie/rationalist/effective-altruist types for many weird obsessions, like...
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People make fun of techie/rationalist/effective-altruist types for many weird obsessions, like stimulants or meditation or polyamory or psychedelics or seed oils or air quality or re-deriving all of philosophy from scratch. Some of these seem fair to me, or at least...
Diaries of Note
God invented art as a regulating device Born in Paris in 1911, French-American artist Louise Bourgeois’ most famous work is, on the surface,...
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Born in Paris in 1911, French-American artist Louise Bourgeois’ most famous work is, on the surface, the stuff of nightmares: a 30-ft high spider made of bronze, marble, and stainless steel that towers above the landscapes of art institutions around the world. Yet, this...
Paul Cudenec
Video: The Corruption is Real and Sickening I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by...
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I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by Drs Mark and Sam Bailey in New Zealand, based on some of my recent writing.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
When the World Begs You to Steal a Corvette I didn't set out to steal a car that night, the opportunity just kind of presented itself. Perhaps...
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I didn't set out to steal a car that night, the opportunity just kind of presented itself. Perhaps my oldest fantasy, formed in the days when my life revolved around Matchbox cars, was to be the hero with the fast car, always escaping the police. I was just a good lil' boy, never...
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...
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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...
Stoic Simple
What’s the Difference Between Stoicism and Existentialism? Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and...
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Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and ethics. Two important philosophical schools of thought that have influenced Western intellectual tradition are Stoicism and Existentialism. Both of these philosophies share some...
Both Are True
if you drink enough coffee you start peeing coffee this piece has nothing to do with coffee!!
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The Best Books of the 21st Century The Honest Broker assesses the NY Times list
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Getting Too Good at the Wrong Thing The siren song of subs
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Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Teaches Us To Have Healthier Relationships In the pursuit of healthy relationships, many individuals turn to various forms of therapy and...
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In the pursuit of healthy relationships, many individuals turn to various forms of therapy and self-help techniques to improve their communication skills, emotional intelligence, and overall well-being. One such approach that has gained popularity in recent years is Stoicism....
The Honest Broker
Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought They will even take less than "fair market value"
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Nick Drake at Age 75 On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
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Diaries of Note
What a pack of lies intimate journals are Charles Ritchie was a renowned Canadian diplomat whose career spanned some of the most significant...
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Charles Ritchie was a renowned Canadian diplomat whose career spanned some of the most significant events of the 20th century and, at the time of writing this brief entry, saw him stationed in London during the tumult of World War II. Amidst the chaos, Ritchie meticulously...
The Convivial...
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