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The Honest Broker
Judgment Day Arrives at the Washington Post And updates on seven other recent articles at The Honest Broker
a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly Have you ever noticed that reality has some properties that are quite annoying? For example, have...
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8 months ago
Have you ever noticed that reality has some properties that are quite annoying? For example, have you noticed that some people do bad things? And yet those same people sometimes have interesting ideas? Occasionally, I’ll bring up an idea in conversation and someone will gently...
Left To Write
StorySelling How to skip the brain, bypass reason and head straight for the heart to sell
a year ago
The Convivial...
Year End Miscellany and "What You Get Is the World" (Audio Version) Listen now (14 min) | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 21 (supplement)
over a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
40 Lessons from 30 Years Why keep it to 30
over a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Focused Reading I have never been a particularly big reader. I enjoy books and I enjoy reading blog posts, but I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have never been a particularly big reader. I enjoy books and I enjoy reading blog posts, but I seem to make more room for the latter, even though I enjoy reading novels far more than I do blogs. The reason is simple enough: I spend the vast majority of my day behind a computer...
Diaries of Note
Humility Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was...
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a year ago
Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was travelling crashed, ending the lives of all its passengers. Born in 1905, Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United...
Both Are True
comedic catastrophes (The Chatfield x Dobrenko Tapes) + why being mediocre at your art is the best way to not get copied by the AI
a month ago
Both Are True
forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday
a year ago
Scarlet Ink
Heard of Design Patterns? How About Behavior Patterns. Recognize patterns in management to be able to solve issues, and deliver results.
2 months ago
Diaries of Note
At times I feel that I could write endlessly Born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer with more than 50 novels and numerous literary...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer with more than 50 novels and numerous literary awards to her name. Since the age of 21 Oates has kept a journal of some kind, but it was in 1973, aged 35, that she began the 5,000 pages now housed at the Joyce Carol Oates […]
Thu Le
Ten pointless facts about me Maybe the first of who knows how many.
a month ago
Atoms vs Bits
Sometimes, You Should Ignore The Studies (And Just Try The Thing) For certain kinds of topics, average impact doesn't really matter.
over a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Giving Credit is the CEO’s Job
over a year ago
Both Are True
i failed vs. i'm a failure the life-changing magic of the failure bow
a month ago
The Honest Broker
How Much Money Does Silicon Valley Make from Stolen Video? TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook are making billions on scrolling video feeds, and they all recycle the...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook are making billions on scrolling video feeds, and they all recycle the same (apparently pirated) video clips. Is this really legal?
The Ruffian
The best reason to believe Woody Allen is innocent is the simplest one How we form opinions on limited information
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Little Girl's Point The rest of my family loves rock hounding. I don't even know if that's what you call it, but that's...
a year ago
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a year ago
The rest of my family loves rock hounding. I don't even know if that's what you call it, but that's what I'm going with. They enjoy walking around, hunting for rocks. Agates are especially popular with rock lovers, and one of the best agate beaches in the area is across the lake...
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky's Seven Most Underrated Essays A look back to celebrate my son being ~7 days old
5 months ago
Both Are True
be my (tired, aging) valentine? candy hearts for the over-30 crowd
a year ago
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Sydney, JAL, and the Sneaky Shortcut This is the last installment in our Japan2025 blog post series, at least as told as a post about...
a month ago
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a month ago
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...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Hamster Wheel Upgrades It is either the most beautiful song I have ever heard or something else. It’s one of those rare...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is either the most beautiful song I have ever heard or something else. It’s one of those rare moments where you shed all the pessimism and your soul fills with peace and clarity until it leaks out of the corner of your eye.
The Honest Broker
Why I Ran Away from Philosophy Because of Sam Bankman-Fried Or how flawed thinking can make $10 billion disappear
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
2024: one pull up One of my biggest goals last year was to run 10km – for me it is not just a distance goal for the...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my biggest goals last year was to run 10km – for me it is not just a distance goal for the sake of having a distance goal, but rather cultivating...
Atoms vs Bits
Short Posts Why are posts so long?
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Dealing with Loss & Suffering: What Stoicism Teaches In our lives, we all face moments of loss and suffering. Whether it's the loss of a loved one, a...
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over a year ago
In our lives, we all face moments of loss and suffering. Whether it's the loss of a loved one, a job, a relationship, or something else, such experiences can be devastating and difficult to manage. While it may seem impossible to cope with these trying times, Stoicism offers a...
The Ruffian
How the World Failed Greta Thunberg The Perils of Praising Teenagers
9 months ago
RhysTranter.com
“In these dark times…” In these dark times we look for the light
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Nirvana Sucks Why some people “just get it” while the rest of us end up looking dumb time and time again. Is there...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why some people “just get it” while the rest of us end up looking dumb time and time again. Is there anything we can do?
Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
a year ago
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a year ago
George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
Diaries of Note
The prop department are about to fuck up the spacecraft Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss...
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over a year ago
Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss artist who brought a unique blend of horror and beauty to its alien species and environments. For much of 1978, beginning in February, Giger could be found in his workshop at...
The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton How I tracked down the most mysterious musician in the history of West Coast jazz
a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
White Space You’ve probably heard the term ‘white space’ before, which is also often referred to as negative...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’ve probably heard the term ‘white space’ before, which is also often referred to as negative space and is used widely in digital and print design. It is the portion of a canvas left unmarked: margins, gutters, and space between columns, lines of type, graphics, figures, or...
Stoic Simple
A Beginner’s Guide to Practicing Stoicism The ancient philosophy of Stoicism has recently gained popularity as a way to navigate life's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The ancient philosophy of Stoicism has recently gained popularity as a way to navigate life's challenges with a clearer, more level-headed mindset. Here, we will explore the key principles of Stoicism and offer practical ways to incorporate them into your daily life....
The Honest Broker
13 Observations on Ritual And other responses to my 'dopamine culture' article
a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Mnmllist When we adopt the minimalism ideology, we use it primarily as a tool. A tool to rid the excess in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we adopt the minimalism ideology, we use it primarily as a tool. A tool to rid the excess in life to make way for that which is important and for the things we value most. Minimalism not only inspires me to live more simply, it also influences my approach to design. I wanted...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Ickiness Sensitivity I thought I found a solution to my social media problem last week. I am not great at interacting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I thought I found a solution to my social media problem last week. I am not great at interacting with my followers or initiating conversations. It turns out that being social doesn't come easily for me online _or_ in real life. If only I could outsource the uncomfortable work.
journal – Winnie Lim
44 I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my own writing, it feels like I am reading the writing of another person. Perhaps...
Letters of Note
Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter...
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over a year ago
On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter to his father. To read his diary entry from that same day, visit Diaries of Note. And don’t forget to sign up for the Letters of Note newsletter. Born in Scotland in 1847,...
journal – Winnie Lim
the uncomfortable phase of learning I have begun strength training for the first time in october last year. I had three personal...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have begun strength training for the first time in october last year. I had three personal training sessions before I traveled to japan, and when I got back there was a...
Atoms vs Bits
The Tolix Chair A Design That Works By Pretending To
2 days ago
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Things I know Last month I turned 30, and I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve learned along the way....
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6 months ago
Last month I turned 30, and I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve learned along the way. Here’s to many more to come. — Thu Le I enjoy reading these reflection lists when people turn another year older. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
The Honest Broker
The Best Recordings of 2023 (Honorable Mention List) I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records of exceptional merit
Both Are True
we laugh so that we do not cry but we end up crying anyway a recap + recording of BATWRITE #001
a month ago
Isabel Unraveled
the two dogs in me words from a private reading i did in Toronto
2 months ago
Raptitude.com
Humans Are About to Learn Like Never Before Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Humans aren’t good at predicting the future, but sometimes you can see a trend that promises something great — like “a genie is granting your wish” great. I think this might be happening right now with one of my genie wishes, maybe yours too. For me it has to do with the piles of...
The Ruffian
The Ruffian's Greatest Hits 2023 This Year's Top Ten Posts As Voted On By Me
a year ago
Charlie Becker
Relatable Flaws | Review of Ask the Dust by John Fante Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read....
a year ago
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a year ago
Ask the Dust is a great book that captures a specific feeling unlike anything else I’ve ever read. The protagonist is a deeply flawed, almost perverse daydreamer, but it is his flaws that make him relatable in a way I’ve encountered in very few other places.
Unfiltered by Tim...
This is What Happens To Your Brain When You Start A Business How my daily habits transformed within 14 days of going full-time on my business
2 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned What does “algorithmic ranking” bring to mind for you? Personally, I get visions of political...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
What does “algorithmic ranking” bring to mind for you? Personally, I get visions of political ragebait and supplement hucksters and unnecessary cleavage. I see cratering attention spans and groups of friends on the subway all blankly swiping at glowing rectangles. I see...
Mind Mine
gossip steals your sovereignty talk is easy, action is hard
9 months ago
The Intimate Mirror
Emptiness and Values Realism Beyond the False Dichotomy
3 months ago
The Ruffian
Why Are Americans Growing Less Comfortable With Speaking Up? The Paradox of the Internet
10 months ago
Both Are True
just two dads becoming dad friends loneliness, parenting struggles (and joys lol), + "writing as legacy" with Marc Typo
2 months ago
RhysTranter.com
“Be zealous in amending your whole life”: Vincent Van Gogh on The Imitation of Christ In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s devotional text, The Imitation of Christ. I encountered it first in the letters of the young Samuel Beckett, and next in the interviews of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, and then in all...
Isabel Unraveled
make more, care less what if i just published waaaaay more?
7 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
My 2019 Year in Review I entered 2019 with more optimism than I have ever had going into the new year. I just felt like big...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I entered 2019 with more optimism than I have ever had going into the new year. I just felt like big things were on the horizon. I was right.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
25 Questions You Didn’t Know You Needed “Art of the Living Dead” to Answer A starting point for anyone curious about reading a book about creativity and zombies
over a year ago
Tech and Tea
Space to do whatever, at work why it's important to make space for not-the-highest-priority things at your job
over a year ago
Abhishek Chakraborty
The Problem With Too Much Logic It doesn’t pay to be logical if everyone else is also being logical. Conventional logic is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It doesn’t pay to be logical if everyone else is also being logical. Conventional logic is a straightforward mental process that is equally available to all and will therefore get you the same place (and same life partner) as everyone else.
Mind Mine
Great Art is about being seen while remaining invisible when intuition breaks through ego
3 months ago
The Honest Broker
I Give the Worst Writing Advice in the World But I believe every word of it
7 months ago
Daniel Bourke
AI Anxiety A walk into the unknown.
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
Thanks be to God! On 14th December 1911, after years of preparation and a gruelling journey in treacherous conditions,...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 14th December 1911, after years of preparation and a gruelling journey in treacherous conditions, Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole and raised the flag of Norway—an achievement that marked them as the first to stand at this geographical zenith having beaten...
Scarlet Ink
No More Excuses: Trading Blame for Action. Practical Steps Towards Ownership Instead of Whining. I'll admit a lack of patience for people who prefer to make excuses when they're given advice. It's...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I'll admit a lack of patience for people who prefer to make excuses when they're given advice. It's easier to make excuses rather than do the hard work.
The Ruffian
A Ruffian Catch-Up In Case You Missed...
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...
10 months ago
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10 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 Ruffian
'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult Not If You're On The Left Anyway
11 months ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Gestaltung It may came as no surprise that one of the most influential figures in my life (whether he knows it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It may came as no surprise that one of the most influential figures in my life (whether he knows it or not) is the renowned German industrial designer, Dieter Rams. His work speaks for itself and has been the inspiration behind many product designs we use and love today. Rams...
Both Are True
WANTED: Happiness, dead or alive Alex is back with a brand new invention (an essay)
a year ago
The Honest Broker
I Had to Say Something at My Son's Wedding So I'm sharing it with you too
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Month 3 of Daily Art Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
Lenin’s tomb is remarkable In January of 1924, a week after the death of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, his embalmed...
a year ago
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a year ago
In January of 1924, a week after the death of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, his embalmed body was placed on display in a temporary wooden tomb in Moscow’s Red Square—an ideological shrine that was visited by hundreds of thousands of onlookers over the next few months....
The Honest Broker
Is Disney Trying to Sell Star Wars? I pick out winners and losers in my latest culture briefing paper
3 months ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalissimo LAB Over the course of 2020, I have been making efforts to create a Minimalissimo LAB. “Whatcha talkin‘...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the course of 2020, I have been making efforts to create a Minimalissimo LAB. “Whatcha talkin‘ bout, Willis?” What I mean by a LAB is a virtual environment that encapsulates all that Minimalissimo makes, curates, and publishes. It’s more a way to organise everything we do...
Ryan Hoover's...
2016, another year of great music 🎶
over a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
A Little Meditation I have always appreciated the practice of meditation and what it can do for the mind, including how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have always appreciated the practice of meditation and what it can do for the mind, including how it can help control our emotions. I've been reading up on it a little more recently and have spoken to some friends who also practice it, so I was really interested in giving it a...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Recalibrating Your Pattern Recognition Machine, Part 2 Changing someone’s opinion requires you to change that person’s _reality_. You have to change the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Changing someone’s opinion requires you to change that person’s _reality_. You have to change the filter, the part of the brain that is working long before rationality and logic kick in.
Luxagraf:...
Family After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach. Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
Diaries of Note
What does it mean if we climb the heights and no one observes it? Lawrence Ferlinghetti, best known as a poet, activist, and co-founder of the renowned City Lights...
a year ago
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a year ago
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, best known as a poet, activist, and co-founder of the renowned City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, was a central figure in the Beat movement, and his A Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time. He also travelled far and...
Thu Le
Presence over performance A reflection on curating an online persona and choosing to live a quieter life.
4 months ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Phone Setup Ever since I moved from the iPhone to the Blloc Phone, I wanted to further reduce the number of apps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever since I moved from the iPhone to the Blloc Phone, I wanted to further reduce the number of apps I had installed. Not just because I wanted to reduce my screen time and have fewer distractions, but because I wanted to remove my digital clutter, and where better to start than...
The Ruffian
Why It's Good To Be Biased When everyone is rational, reasonable and nice, we all get a little dimmer
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Work under any circumstances Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by financial hardship and legal troubles. Born in 1786, Haydon’s passion for historical painting led him down a tumultuous path, as mounting debts and controversial public statements...
Diaries of Note
This tedious battle against the mountain is almost over At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second...
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over a year ago
At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second and third Americans ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, following an arduous journey that began alongside a formidable team of 17 other Americans, 32 Sherpas, and 909 porters...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
15 Years of Loving Curation In my previous post, I mentioned that Minimalissimo was coming to an end and that I'd be embarking...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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...
Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: October 2024 Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
9 months ago
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: we are the 99%! 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 2020.
Diaries of Note
Four times I have turned the lights out while writing this To live in Belfast in 1972 was to dwell in the heart of a storm, for this was the most violent year...
a year ago
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a year ago
To live in Belfast in 1972 was to dwell in the heart of a storm, for this was the most violent year of the Troubles’ three decades—a period of civil unrest marked by sectarian conflict and political upheaval. When she wrote this diary entry in July of that year, Eimear...
Both Are True
batwrite cowrite tomorrow (wed) at 930am est for the early birds who seek the worm
3 weeks ago
Both Are True
testing testing is this thing on hopefully not
10 months ago
Letters of Note
My heart almost stood still The following letter was written exactly 100 years ago. It’s a remarkable piece of writing that...
a year ago
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a year ago
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:...
Diaries of Note
Our lovely Annex Anne Frank was thirteen years old when she and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam, her world...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anne Frank was thirteen years old when she and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam, her world contracting to a few small rooms behind a bookcase in her father’s office building. Three days later, she wrote the following entry in her diary and described the “secret annex” in...
Luxagraf:...
I Like New Orleans Better After Galveston we headed north, bound for New Orleans. We broke up the drive with a stop at one of...
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over a year ago
After Galveston we headed north, bound for New Orleans. We broke up the drive with a stop at one of the gates of hell, located in Sea Rim State Park, Texas. Sea Grim as we call it. Do not go there. Ever. For any reason. We had to abandon the bus there that night and retreat to a...
Nat Eliason's...
To Improve Yourself You Must Know Yourself How to make change stick
4 months ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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".
Passing Time
Mixing Memory and Desire Rage & tranquility; decay & rebirth; memory and desire.
over a year ago
The Convivial...
"The Pathologies of the Attention Economy" (Audio), Links, Miscellany Listen now (23 min) | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16 (supplement)
over a year ago
Both Are True
This isn't what I wanted to write even this subtitle is completely wrong
5 months ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Create Slowly The concept of slow design is one I've applied for several years. As time passes (quickly) and new...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The concept of slow design is one I've applied for several years. As time passes (quickly) and new technologies land on our desks, the expectation that we need to react at lightning speed to prove to the world we're always in the know of what's trending, is exhausting. Even if...
Nat Eliason's...
I'm Writing a Book! Book Update 1
over a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
The community trap
10 months ago
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Expanding the Mediterranean's busiest port Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
8 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
"Late Bloomers" in Life in Their 40s, 50s, and 60s Are Incredible Some naive people make the mistake of thinking you can only do big things while you’re young. But...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Some naive people make the mistake of thinking you can only do big things while you’re young. But these “late bloomers” showed me this is untrue.
Tech and Tea
Ask vs guess culture When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the...
a year ago
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a year ago
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
Laetitia@Work
Why AI can make work painful: see customer service Laetitia@Work #71
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Judgment Day Has Arrived for the Journalism Business From Upworthy to Buzzfeed, all the click chasing gimmicks have failed—but there is one sure option...
over a year ago
Charlie Becker
Beyond Cliché and Pretense: From the Canon to Constellations The Importance of the new type of Artist
a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All, that is, except for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which for some reason can play at an advanced amateur level. This is despite the fact that this model is more than a year old and much...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Improve Your Physical Health & Fitness Are you looking for ways to improve your physical health? Many people focus on exercise and diet,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Are you looking for ways to improve your physical health? Many people focus on exercise and diet, but there is another method that has been gaining popularity in recent years - Stoicism. This ancient philosophy has many principles that can help you lead a healthier and happier...
Thu Le
Blog questions challenge I’m answering questions in the blog questions challenge!
4 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
co-existing with my broken mind I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding to reality in general. I don’t really get why people are not...
journal – Winnie Lim
living life like a solo rpg player One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games, partially because they trigger migraines and motion sickness for me, and partially because a combination...
The Honest Broker
12 Outstanding New Albums by 12 Artists from 12 Countries These under-the-radar records absolutely deserve your attention
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
More Entries from My Private Journal A few months ago, I shared private entries from my journal. People seemed to enjoy reading them—so...
3 months ago
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A few months ago, I shared private entries from my journal. People seemed to enjoy reading them—so I’m doing it again.
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Esteemed midwife Martha Ballard was fifty when she began to keep a diary—a unique and detailed record of life in 18th-century rural America that would grow to 10,000 entries and cover 27 years. On the day of the following entry in October of 1794, Ballard successfully delivered...
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#12 Writemas: All The Pieces of You There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I...
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There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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There is something delicious to me in my little spot of garden Gamaliel Bradford was born in 1863 in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth successive Gamaliel Bradford...
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Gamaliel Bradford was born in 1863 in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth successive Gamaliel Bradford to take that name in an enduring family tradition. Despite being poor of health for much of his life, Bradford’s prolific writings became legendary. He authored an incredible 114...
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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...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/3GTYvkPMEh8 it's a fact: the future is always uncertain, no matter how much we try to plan for it or predict it. And that uncertainty can easily upset people, because it's always a possibility that the future won't go as we want it to. For...
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My Ultimate Texas Songwriter Playlist I've handpicked 56 tracks from the Lone Star State (3 hours of music)
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Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean Instead of real portraits, Google serves up AI-generated garbage
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Truth, essence, knowledge and light Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after...
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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.
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Ajde (climbing diary) I first met Manu Moreale (online) about five years ago when I asked for his help to rescue the...
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I first met Manu Moreale (online) about five years ago when I asked for his help to rescue the Minimalissimo website after an unnamed agency created a shit-show that left me down a similarly named creek without a paddle. Since then, we have worked together on various projects and...
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We all want to be motivated. We want to feel energized and excited about the things we do. We want to wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and drive, ready to tackle the day ahead. But the truth is, motivation is not always easy to come by. We tell ourselves lies about...
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#11 Writemas: What I Read This Year I had two main reading goals for 2023: a) Slow down my reading b) Try to read books that are at...
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I had two main reading goals for 2023: a) Slow down my reading b) Try to read books that are at least 100 years old. Here’s the full list of my completed books this year, in case you were wondering… Ed Thorpe, A Man for All Markets (2017) Kahill Gibran,
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endure: book notes and thoughts In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological...
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In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological or physical. This is a response to a combination of recent world events, the imminent...
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I hear some funny noise Born in Alaska in 1898, Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who found fame in the 1920s after...
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Born in Alaska in 1898, Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who found fame in the 1920s after surviving a doomed two-year expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. Hired as a seamstress and cook, Ada, who had no survival skills to speak of, was the sole female in a...
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I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
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Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
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did you steal my bicycle we moved to Asheville and then this happened
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Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with intellectual curiosity. Born in Suffolk, England in 1819, her now-celebrated journal contains not just her intricate observations of the natural world, but also thoughtful reflections...
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Using Stoicism to be Less Emotional About Politics & News Media by Bob Cymber Most Stoics are aware of the famous "Dichotomy of Control." In this view, there are...
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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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Operation zero commute I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from...
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I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from home. Work from home, gym from home, practice farming from home, community from home. Everything walking or riding distance, the rest delivered. I don’t even live in one
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How We Became a Techno-Optimist Family You can too!
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#Japan2025 Hokuriku Shinkansen Back to Tōkyō There are five things I love about being a traveller in Japan. Okay, there are many more, but these...
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There are five things I love about being a traveller in Japan. Okay, there are many more, but these are the big ones. One is the traditional art, music, and architecture. Two is the food, both local and their interpretations of international cuisine. Three is the hospitality....
journal – Winnie Lim
hiroshima, and keeping my brain engaged I debated for a long time whether to visit Hiroshima since I was already on my way to Osaka from...
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I debated for a long time whether to visit Hiroshima since I was already on my way to Osaka from Fukuoka. It would be almost a midway stop, breaking up the original...
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Capsule Wardrobe A capsule wardrobe is simply a collection of essential items of clothing that don’t really go out of...
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A capsule wardrobe is simply a collection of essential items of clothing that don’t really go out of fashion, which can then be augmented with seasonal pieces. Although a capsule wardrobe could certainly be defined as minimal in its own right, my wardrobe goes a little beyond...
Wait But Why
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Our career path is how we spend our time, support our lifestyles, make our impact, even define our...
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Our career path is how we spend our time, support our lifestyles, make our impact, even define our identity. Let’s make sure we’re on the right track. The post How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) appeared first on Wait But Why.
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Beauty Is Stone Cold in the Arts, but Hot as a Consumer Product The state of aesthetics in the 21st century is very, very strange
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In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War And I can already tell you who will win
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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.
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Good work, Clifton Few writers bring humour to the page quite like David Sedaris. Born in Johnson City, New York in...
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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,...
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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...
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Three Words Invented by Buckminster Fuller A simple post to introduce you to three words coined by one of my heroes, Buckminster Fuller. When...
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A simple post to introduce you to three words coined by one of my heroes, Buckminster Fuller. When current words couldn't contain his ideas, Bucky would invent new ones. Here are three terms you should know.
Jason Crawford
What went wrong with the ventilator stockpile? The New York Times reports on how the federal government tried and failed to increase the stockpile...
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The New York Times reports on how the federal government tried and failed to increase the stockpile of ventilators. Some are reading this as a story about the private sector, the profit motive, or “greed”. I think it’s a story about incompetent project management. The story in...
Scarlet Ink
The Ideal Manager Exercise — How to Choose and Communicate With Your Current or Future Manager The reflection exercise that helped me find and cultivate a successful relationship with my manager.
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A Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—but the Books Don't Exist The AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that...
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There Is Only Time Balance is a really tricky word, because I don’t think there’s such a thing. There’s just time....
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Balance is a really tricky word, because I don’t think there’s such a thing. There’s just time. There’s just where you are and what you do. And it doesn’t make sense for me to have to spend time on something that feels like a sacrifice. I try to do things that are part of the big...
The Honest Broker
Open Mic Discussion: How Do You Deal with Disabilities that Put Your Vocation at Risk? A reader asks for your advice
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Wu wei (无为) — The art of not forcing The controlled accident. Sometimes it gets mistaken for "do nothing" or "doing nothing". Because the...
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The controlled accident. Sometimes it gets mistaken for "do nothing" or "doing nothing". Because the characters 无为 (wu wei) mean nothing (wu, 无) and doing (wei, 为). So although a literal translation would be doing nothing, it doesn’t mean the same as sitting
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She cured me of the disease of night fear Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies...
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Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies of the human experience. Born in Ohio in 1896, she moved to New York City in her early twenties and quickly became an active member of the literary scene, writing novels, plays,...
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Why London's Famous Penguin Pool Has No Penguins In It A Tale From My Trip To The Zoo
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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 Frightening Future
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for thousands of years. It was first developed in ancient Greece and has since spread throughout the world. One of the core principles of Stoicism is the concept of free will. Understanding this concept is vital to understanding the...
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It is in solitude that being shows its worth When she wrote the following entry in her diary, 18-year-old Simone de Beauvoir was on the cusp of...
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When she wrote the following entry in her diary, 18-year-old Simone de Beauvoir was on the cusp of adulthood and soon to begin studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. Born into an upper-middle-class family in Paris, even at this early age the seeds of her introspective nature and...
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Rereading The Brothers Karamazov It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
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It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
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random scenes from busan I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
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I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
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The Heroes Behind Healthcare.gov The untold story of how a small team of innovators almost fundamentally changed government
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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...
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Turkeys are beautiful in themselves Born in London in 1896, J. R. Ackerley was a distinguished author and editor celebrated for his...
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Born in London in 1896, J. R. Ackerley was a distinguished author and editor celebrated for his candid autobiographical writing and his lengthy tenure as the literary editor of the BBC magazine, The Listener. On 22nd December 1952, as millions of households across Britain...
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Armageddon in Europe! It was in 1915 that Vera Brittain left Somerville College, Oxford to become a nurse during the First...
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It was in 1915 that Vera Brittain left Somerville College, Oxford to become a nurse during the First World War, a decision that would profoundly shape her life and literary career. Eighteen years later, having experienced the devastating realities of the battlefield, Brittain...
Atoms vs Bits
Voltaire on Vaccines In Voltaire's Letters on England, he writes up an interesting story on the pre-history of...
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In Voltaire's Letters on England, he writes up an interesting story on the pre-history of vaccination. (Bear in mind this is written in 1733, and I haven't checked the accuracy of his claims). It begins: It is whispered in Christian Europe that the English are mad
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Masterpiece Hallucinations What can you see through blurry eyes that you can't see with 20/20 vision?
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Complete silence Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and...
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How Silicon Valley Hacked the Science of Human Behaviour Revisiting My 2016 Piece on The Phones
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Keeping it in the deep-state family It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person...
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It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person bearing the family name on the Foundation’s board of trustees.
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Intuitions for Georgism Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
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Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
journal – Winnie Lim
because we are both pessimists It is so easy to take for granted, the ease of a relationship that has lasted 106 months. That is...
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It is so easy to take for granted, the ease of a relationship that has lasted 106 months. That is almost 9 years, a little less than a quarter of my life....
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Mark Manson
Why Your Favorite Self-Help Book Sucks https://youtu.be/hQB3viVFhPA Yes, yes—I know you think that one book you read that one time changed...
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https://youtu.be/hQB3viVFhPA Yes, yes—I know you think that one book you read that one time changed your life. Hell, maybe that was even my book. And don't get me wrong, self-help books can help, but I think people mistake what they're actually doing. Let me break this down for...
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The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
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I forget who pointed this out, but Netflix has a subtle feature where it periodically tries to inspire you to get off the couch and live the life you really want. Whenever an episode of the show you’re watching ends, and the next is queueing up, there’s a moment in which the...
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Mouth Lookers and the Connection Illusion My girlfriend told me I was do it wrong. How was I supposed to know? They don’t teach this stuff in...
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The reign of beasts has begun The world was plunged into darkness on 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, an act of...
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The world was plunged into darkness on 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, an act of aggression that led France and the United Kingdom to declare war. Amidst this global turmoil, a young Albert Camus, then a journalist for socialist newspaper Alger-Républicain, found...
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Unchecked Depression Boxes And are you feeling depressed? Why should that question enrage me so much? I realize depression is a...
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And are you feeling depressed? Why should that question enrage me so much? I realize depression is a major health epidemic. I understand that they can't treat an invisible disease without asking if you are suffering from it. But all I wanted was to get a wart frozen off the...
Diaries of Note
They will pay in full Lena Mukhina was sixteen when the German army invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, setting off...
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Lena Mukhina was sixteen when the German army invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, setting off a chain of events that would lead to the Siege of Leningrad—a brutal and devastating blockade that lasted more than two years and led to the deaths of 1.5 million people. Mukhina...
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I do not seem to care for the “boys” very much Annie Cooper Boyd (born Annie Burnham Cooper) was an artist and feminist who hailed from the whaling...
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Annie Cooper Boyd (born Annie Burnham Cooper) was an artist and feminist who hailed from the whaling village of Sag Harbor, New York, where her father, William H. Cooper, had for years thrived as a local boat builder. She adored her family, painting, and writing, and it’s thanks...
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Excrement is the thread of life Salvador Dalí, born in Spain in 1904, was the mustachioed maestro of surrealism, with a flair for...
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Salvador Dalí, born in Spain in 1904, was the mustachioed maestro of surrealism, with a flair for the fantastical in both his life and art. His paintings, like The Persistence of Memory with its melting clocks, are playful explorations of the dream world, but this love of the...
The Ruffian
The Unreal Thing What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative...
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Why Things Might Actually Be About To Get Better Reasons For National Optimism
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My body is the record of those I have loved American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her...
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American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her large, colour-saturated, wooden column sculptures. Born in 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, Truitt studied psychology at Bryn Mawr College before venturing into art, her studies taking...
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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...
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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....
journal – Winnie Lim
temporary amnesia Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to...
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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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When we make something new, people often ask "why don't you just add that to Basecamp?" There are a number of reasons, depending on what it is. But, broadly, making something brand new gives you latitude (and attitude) to explore new tech and design approaches. It's the...
Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline here it is
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Wacky Guy One: prepping for the audition that coulda changed everything a raw and unvarnished look at what it takes to make it in hollywood with celebrated commercial actor...
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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...
Mark Manson
The 5 Levels of Understanding Yourself Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the...
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Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the self. We'll be exploring the concept of self at five different levels, from simple explanations to brain-melting ideas that'll leave you questioning your very existence. Ready? Let's do...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Help You Achieve Personal Growth Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still relevant today. In recent years, stoicism has gained popularity as a tool for personal growth. The principles of stoicism can help us develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and...
Left To Write
The Narrative Fallacy How narratives can distort our perception of reality and what to do against it
a year ago
Both Are True
we're okay - a quick Asheville update and a list of places to donate
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,...
The Honest Broker
Is Honest Writing the Next New Thing in Journalism? And 21 reasons why writers are dishonest
a year ago
Mind Mine
approaching life with ease the essence of living effortlessly
11 months ago
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Nagoya for the first time Yesterday we took the Shinkansen fron Tōkyō to Nagoya, a city I’ve never been to before. Clara had...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Yesterday we took the Shinkansen fron Tōkyō to Nagoya, a city I’ve never been to before. Clara had been for a brief stopover, but hadn’t seen much of it beyond its port. Much of yesterday’s post may have been spent extolling the virtues of high-speed trains before I even got to...
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
bookbear express
Dear Bear: how do I get over someone I thought was perfect for me? + what do I do if my friend is... + matchmaking closes in two days
2 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
7 Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days 85,000 words and many caffeinated drinks later
9 months ago
The Honest Broker
Why Recording Studios Are Unplugging From the Internet And other recent articles of interest
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
daring to be ugly I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of insecurity. That insecurity made me feel ugly and that I was never...
The Honest Broker
Netflix CEO Mocks Moviegoers: Theaters Are Dead! How fear and self-loathing took over Hollywood
3 months ago
Jason Fried
Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse Failure is a word worth eliminating from your vocabulary. There’s no reason to think about things...
a year ago
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a year ago
Failure is a word worth eliminating from your vocabulary. There’s no reason to think about things that didn’t work out as failures. Yet, it’s especially pervasive in entrepreneurial circles. It’s almost as if failure has been fetishized. Nearly worshipped as a right of passage, 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.
Unfiltered by Tim...
If You Want to Be a Millionaire, You Need to Be Nicheless Being nicheless is a higher state of consciousness
8 months ago
The Honest Broker
A Look at Bill Evans's 15-Year-Old Pianist Grandson And other updates on previous posts
a year ago
Paul Cudenec
On globalism and immigration Somebody commented on my article “The British population is under attack” that I had not made any...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Somebody commented on my article “The British population is under attack” that I had not made any mention of immigration.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
That Inspiration Stuck in Your Teeth Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels sang, and an idea descended like a holy dove. What, it doesn't happen that way for you? Me neither.
Diaries of Note
Poor wreck that I am John L’Heureux, a renowned Massachusetts-born novelist and poet, spent seventeen years of his life...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
John L’Heureux, a renowned Massachusetts-born novelist and poet, spent seventeen years of his life as a Jesuit before embracing the literary world. On June 11th, 1966, after twelve years of rigorous study, he was ordained as a priest. During the three years leading up to this...
The Honest Broker
A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
5 months ago
The Ruffian
Unveiling 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Yes It's an Actual Book With a Cover and Everything
9 months ago
The Ruffian
The Death of Scenius Urban Creativity Isn't What It Was
5 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
My more-hardcore theanine self-experiment Theanine is an amino acid that occurs naturally in tea. Many people take it as a supplement for...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Theanine is an amino acid that occurs naturally in tea. Many people take it as a supplement for stress or anxiety. It’s mechanistically plausible, but the scientific literature hasn’t been able to find much of a benefit. So I ran a 16-month blinded self-experiment in the hopes of...
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
Diaries of Note
The most terrible thing ever discovered When he wrote the following diary entry on 25th July of 1945, Harry S. Truman had been U.S....
a year ago
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a year ago
When he wrote the following diary entry on 25th July of 1945, Harry S. Truman had been U.S. President for just three months. With Nazi Germany defeated, Truman was in Potsdam, Germany with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, their goal: to negotiate the end of World War II and...
The Honest Broker
The Rise and Fall of Sly Stone The soul and funk legend leaves us today at age 82—but the deeper story is that he abandoned his...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
The soul and funk legend leaves us today at age 82—but the deeper story is that he abandoned his audience more than 50 years ago
Mind Mine
my parents. the stewards of my soul!
4 months ago
Stoic Simple
What Is Stoicism, Basically? A Comprehensive Overview Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks developed it as a way to live a good life, free from the distractions of emotions, desires, and material possessions. Stoicism has been embraced by many people throughout history,...
The Ruffian
Podcast: How To Read More Part II of My Conversation With James Marriott
2 weeks ago
The Convivial...
Taking Stock of Our Technological Liturgies Listen now | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 15
over a year ago
Charlie Becker
13 Lessons from 37 Years My Gift to You for my 37th Birthday
9 months ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Resilience: How Stoicism Makes Us Resilient When Facing Challenges Life can be incredibly unpredictable, and there are times when it can feel like the entire world is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Life can be incredibly unpredictable, and there are times when it can feel like the entire world is working against us. These are the moments when we need to muster all the resilience we can and face adversity with a sturdy sense of perseverance. Luckily, the philosophy of...
The Honest Broker
They Praised AI at SXSW—and the Audience Started Booing My survey confirms that consumers are getting angry about new tech (and not just AI)
a year ago
Both Are True
confessions of a recovering content creator started out at buzzfeed now we here - my convo w comedian and mind behind Create.Repeat, Zack Evans
2 months ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Dumb Apps
over a year ago
Passing Time
A Break from the Bubble Fremont Canyon Trip Report
11 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...
Both Are True
free t-shirts +a lil story + a genuinely useful lil tip!!
a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
How we made our first dollar at Product Hunt
over a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
The Chimp-Pig Hypothesis My great-great-grandmother wasn't a chimp (she was a pig)
a year ago
The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2) I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers) And I invite you to ask questions of your own
a year ago
Both Are True
Wait the Piña Colada song is about what?! hint: its not about frikkin piña coladas I can tell you that right now
a year ago
The Ruffian
Rattle Bag Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
journal – Winnie Lim
a snapshot of my psyche, and an egg sandwich Sometimes I think I am too “purist” in the way I live: I am always trying to do the “right” thing,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sometimes I think I am too “purist” in the way I live: I am always trying to do the “right” thing, but perhaps what is the right thing for me intellectually may...
The Honest Broker
Classical Music Got Invented with a Hard Kick from a Peasant's Foot Or why we need less math in music theory
4 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
Charlie Becker
Sonder, Sobriety, and Abstractions | Friday Footnotes #3 Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reading and reflection meet real life.
3 months ago
Both Are True
i want to be with someone i can goof with - help? wherever you goof, there you harr (i am so sorry)
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Oh Misery or the reverse! In January of 1932, Barbara Pym was diligently studying English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In January of 1932, Barbara Pym was diligently studying English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, honing her craft eighteen years before publication of her debut novel, Some Tame Gazelle. It was around this time that she was thinking deeply of Henry Harvey, a fellow student two...
Jason Fried
Lighten your grip I recently took up drumming. Again. One of the first things you realize, other than you suck, is...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently took up drumming. Again. One of the first things you realize, other than you suck, is that you’re gripping the sticks too hard. A tight grip denies certain degrees of freedom, limits subtlety, and ups the fatigue factor. Plus you give up the gift of bounce the drum...
Diaries of Note
The newspapers are having a field day Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir Terry Wogan. A consummate professional, Wogan’s wit, warmth, and engaging personality endeared him to audiences throughout his long and successful career in radio and television....
Daniel Bourke
Introducing Nutrify | A Pokédex for Food Like Shazam. But for food. A simple app to make learning about food fun.
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
textures and scenes from tainan I love when I position my camera for a snap, the subject responds positively like this: My partner...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I love when I position my camera for a snap, the subject responds positively like this: My partner calls Tainan the most aesthetic city for our trip. It is filled with old...
Diaries of Note
Only in Yorkshire Few diarists capture the rhythms of daily life quite like Alan Bennett. Born in Leeds in 1934, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Few diarists capture the rhythms of daily life quite like Alan Bennett. Born in Leeds in 1934, it was in the early-1970s that this beloved playwright began to keep a diary, sporadically scribbled on loose sheets of paper that would later be bundled to form twelve months of...
The Convivial...
Eye to Eye "Is This Anything?"
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Hottest Drummer You've Never Heard A new book pays tribute to the amazing Chick Webb, the hardest swinging jazz drummer of his day
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse? Some say I believe this—but do I really?
a month ago
Charlie Becker
How many of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century have I read? This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is a Workshop post, which means it doesn’t get emailed out to everyone and doesn’t show up in the Castles in the Sky best of lists. To subscribe and receive these in your email inbox (or unsubscribe from them if you’re already receiving them), adjust your
Charlie Becker
Pure Research is a Bet on Progress Normally I spend part of my summer convincing a group of reluctant students that pure research is an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Normally I spend part of my summer convincing a group of reluctant students that pure research is an essential part of the progress and preservation of civilization. But for the first time in four years, my calendar was blank for the middle weeks of June. I would usually teach a...
Diaries of Note
To pay up would constitute a precedent Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and a remarkable ability to discern the pulse of contemporary drama. Born in Birmingham, England, in 1927, he began documenting his life and thoughts in diaries from the age of six, a...
The Intimate Mirror
Dangerous Safety How genuine safety dissolves both personal and systemic control (Breaking Open: Part 5)
6 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
where i can take off my mask Recently I’ve been getting some feedback from multiple sources that they appreciate I am able...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently I’ve been getting some feedback from multiple sources that they appreciate I am able to write it as it is. In parallel I’ve also been thinking about why I share so much...
Tech and Tea
Making Space When the World Feels Heavy When creating space feels too hard, a little structure and accountability can be the nudge you need.
2 weeks ago
Atoms vs Bits
Say my name, say mye naym I have a name that a lot of people find hard to pronounce
a year ago
Farza's Newsletter
just used my car keys to lock my macbook wow 2021 is legit Was a busy week at ZipSchool! It’s interesting, we’re quickly moving more toward an experience that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Was a busy week at ZipSchool! It’s interesting, we’re quickly moving more toward an experience that the student themselves can control. This sounds kinda obvious in retrospect (as most things do). For basically the last 6 months the experience we’ve been building has been pretty...
Ryan Hoover's...
Why you should build your product in public
over a year ago
Scarlet Ink
Six Reader Questions About Meetings, Feedback, Communication, and Ideas I regularly receive questions over email and in comments on my newsletter. I decided to answer a few...
10 months ago
Daniel Bourke
A Quick Introduction to PyTorch 2.0 PyTorch 2.0 is out! And it comes with plenty of updates. Also NVIDIA GTC March 2023 is around the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PyTorch 2.0 is out! And it comes with plenty of updates. Also NVIDIA GTC March 2023 is around the corner, to celebrate they've given me an RTX 4080 to giveaway!
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Support as a Business Model Allowing readers or fans of your work to financially support you is nothing new. It allows people to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Allowing readers or fans of your work to financially support you is nothing new. It allows people to become active participants in the work you create and that they value. The most popular platform for this sort of thing is Patreon. A creator gives people access to exclusive...
Daniel Bourke
Attitude follows behaviour Imposter syndrome. Feeling like you’re doing something you shouldn’t be. Hanging around those who...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imposter syndrome. Feeling like you’re doing something you shouldn’t be. Hanging around those who you feel should be. It’s true, if at any time you feel your skill is inadequate, it likely is. But that just means you know what you don’t