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Atoms vs Bits
Why And How We Preschedule Posts a self-indulgent meta-post about the process of blogging
6 months ago
The Honest Broker
In the Music Business, 80 Is the New 20 It's never been better for dead and dying musicians
7 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Starmer's regime declares war on nature All that talk by the world’s biggest polluters about going “green” and wanting to “save the planet”...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
All that talk by the world’s biggest polluters about going “green” and wanting to “save the planet” has always been a transparent fraud.
The Ruffian
Notes on Succession Life is not a story
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
Cruising for Classical Music in LA A section from Dana Gioia's new book
9 months ago
Diaries of Note
How lucky were we? Natascha McElhone was 5,000 miles from home and pregnant with their third child when the call came,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Natascha McElhone was 5,000 miles from home and pregnant with their third child when the call came, and in that instant her world crumbled. Her husband of a decade and one day had died unexpectedly from heart failure while she was filming in Los Angeles. He was 43. As she faced...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Boston's Evolution: 1897–2018 My Boston Marathon dataset expands to encompass the last 121 years. With the benefit of another...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Boston Marathon dataset expands to encompass the last 121 years. With the benefit of another century of data, what will we learn?
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
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The story behind how you stopped drawing Mental blind spots, actively losing control, finding beauty in novelty, and a new app for unlearning...
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
Sunk deeply into the blues Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of interrelated short stories that painted an intimate portrait of small-town America and had a lasting impact on American literature. By 1938, three...
Both Are True
i went mostly offline and then all this happened without the internet, my family steps into it; our wild and crazy offline Friday night
a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Values
a year ago
Passing Time
Backcountry Skiers and Venture Capitalists Skiing in the proverbial River
11 months ago
Left To Write
№ 64: How I Make A V60 Pourover Coffee My morning coffee ritual - Choosing intention - Mother's cooking - Finding passion & purpose
over a year ago
Paul Cudenec
Impact imperialists eye big 'opportunities' in India Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees member Ravi Venkatesan was formerly chairman of Microsoft...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees member Ravi Venkatesan was formerly chairman of Microsoft India, where he “helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world”.
Atoms vs Bits
Keyword Conversations No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
9 months ago
The Ruffian
How I Use ChatGPT Getting the Most From LLMs
7 months ago
Left To Write
№ 74: An Entrepreneurial Odyssey How an epic poem can manage your expectations and reality
a year ago
Tech and Tea
On the path to thriving In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even mean?
Left To Write
StorySelling How to skip the brain, bypass reason and head straight for the heart to sell
over a year ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Taking a Step Back from Minimalissimo I recently wrote about bandwidth and how I've been struggling to balance my day job as a product...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently wrote about bandwidth and how I've been struggling to balance my day job as a product designer with several side projects and businesses. Reflecting deeply this year, I've decided to make a few changes, one of which is the difficult decision to step back from...
Charlie Becker
You need to be wholesome-maxxing. You need to be wholesome-maxxing:
7 months ago
Paul Cudenec
For one people's resistance! by Paul Cudenec
7 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the amazing tools and research we now have for our metabolic health [cw: metabolic health, diet] My paternal grandmother died before I was born, apparently of diabetes...
a year ago
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a year ago
[cw: metabolic health, diet] My paternal grandmother died before I was born, apparently of diabetes complications. When I was younger I couldn’t understand what it meant to die of diabetes complications –...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Burning All Your Bridges Is a Cheat Code to Success Let it all burn to the ground and smile.
6 months ago
Diaries of Note
Went to a party and lost my head When he wrote his first diary entry in March of 1847, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was 18 years old...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When he wrote his first diary entry in March of 1847, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was 18 years old and six days into a spell at hospital being treated for gonorrhoea, motivated to keep a record of his days as he was “concerned with the development of [his] own faculties.” For 63...
Diaries of Note
The sea was alive with great hunchback whales On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On 28th February, seven years before his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, was to appear in print, Arthur Conan Doyle left Peterhead on S. S. Hope, a whaling ship led by Captain John Gray that was heading for the Arctic Ocean. Aged twenty and still studying medicine at...
Isabel Unraveled
my phone is making me dumb is yours too?
7 months ago
Daily Stoic
How To Cure Anxiety: 9 Stoic Techniques That Work “We suffer more from imagination than from reality.” — Seneca The 21st century has been described as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“We suffer more from imagination than from reality.” — Seneca The 21st century has been described as “The Age of Anxiety,” “The United States of Stress,” “The World of Worry.” The implication is that what we are experiencing—pandemics, terrorism, political and economic turmoil,...
Diaries of Note
The power of language can make people crazy Born in New York in 1933, the distinguished novelist Leonard Michaels was celebrated for his sharp,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Born in New York in 1933, the distinguished novelist Leonard Michaels was celebrated for his sharp, compelling prose and deep insight into the complexities of human relationships. Although he first became a published writer in 1969, his private diary entries, which he began...
The Honest Broker
The New 80% Rule in Culture It's ugly out there
2 months ago
Farza's Newsletter
hans zimmer and me got a burrito in sf but it was just a dream my life is a lie man Hey everyone :).
4 weeks ago
Charlie Becker
CATHEDRAL | Chapter One - Four Years Out Cathedral | Castles in the Sky #60
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Whoomp-whoomp-whoomp On 7th August 1942, Allied forces landed on the shores of Guadalcanal, igniting one of the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On 7th August 1942, Allied forces landed on the shores of Guadalcanal, igniting one of the most significant campaigns in the Pacific during World War II. While U.S. forces grappled with a formidable Japanese defence in a treacherous jungle environment, American journalist Richard...
DYNOMIGHT
Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for one month/year/decade? If it’s safer to face backwards in vehicles, then what is it that’s shared by infants in cars and soldiers on military planes but no one else? Among rock bands...
journal – Winnie Lim
yet another dysautonomia episode I went for a 5km run yesterday a couple of days after returning from thailand. Sometimes after a...
a month ago
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a month ago
I went for a 5km run yesterday a couple of days after returning from thailand. Sometimes after a long break it may feel more strenuous but I felt better than expected, even...
The Honest Broker
5 Ways to Stop AI Cheating At 22, I left LA for a traditional Oxford education. I mocked it then—but this stodgy approach might...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
At 22, I left LA for a traditional Oxford education. I mocked it then—but this stodgy approach might be our best hope right now.
Diaries of Note
One feels as if one is dissolved into Nature Albert Einstein’s trip to the California Institute of Technology in December 1931, for the first of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Albert Einstein’s trip to the California Institute of Technology in December 1931, for the first of three annual visiting professorships, marked a crucial juncture in his life. The rise of the Nazi party in Germany, with its vehement anti-Semitism, was forcing the physicist to...
The Honest Broker
How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant I share a shameful incident from my student days
a year ago
Paul Cudenec
A grotesque spectacle of lies and abuse It may seem odd, at first sight, that someone who recently warned against taking political...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
It may seem odd, at first sight, that someone who recently warned against taking political “personalities” too seriously is now reviewing a book about the lives of the French presidential couple.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Journey of a Single Brush Stroke There's a painting hanging in my garage that I am not particularly proud of. I keep it around...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a painting hanging in my garage that I am not particularly proud of. I keep it around because of a single brush stroke. The rest of the painting is mediocre, a still life of dismembered baby doll parts, the standard assignment given to beginning painting students. I...
The Ruffian
Unveiling 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Yes It's an Actual Book With a Cover and Everything
10 months ago
Both Are True
WANTED: Happiness, dead or alive Alex is back with a brand new invention (an essay)
a year ago
The Prism
40 Useful Concepts (Summer 2023) Ideas to help you make sense of the world
over a year ago
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,...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Should we give babies the vote? And births rise in South Korea
6 months ago
Diaries of Note
This is not Nineteen Eighty-Four Wigtown is a coastal town in south-west Scotland so in love with books that its approximately 900...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Wigtown is a coastal town in south-west Scotland so in love with books that its approximately 900 (presumably) well-read inhabitants have an incredible sixteen bookshops on their doorstep(s), an annual book festival that runs for ten days, and the official title of Scotland’s...
Charlie Becker
To Love a Dove Castles in the Sky #39
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Asimov on Fame, Fortune, and Creative Breakthrough Part 2 of an Analysis of Isaac Asimov’s Long Lost Letter on Creativity
over a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
2015, a year of firsts
over a year ago