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DYNOMIGHT
Fighting me and other survey results Thank you to the 966 people who filled out the survey. And thanks also to the strangely numerous...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thank you to the 966 people who filled out the survey. And thanks also to the strangely numerous people who read all the questions and wrote to me about them but didn’t answer them. (Though: why?) Many asked: Will the survey data be public? Unfortunately no, because I’m a big...
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 6 sweet sweet nothings
2 months ago
Luxagraf:...
Winter Storm The afternoon of the day we decided to leave the Jeep behind a ranger stopped by to tell us they...
a year ago
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a year ago
The afternoon of the day we decided to leave the Jeep behind a ranger stopped by to tell us they were closing the campground the next day due to a large storm front that was headed our way. Winds were expected to be in the 50 MPH range, with gusts even higher. We've sat out a...
Both Are True
idk about the whole 'i'd have written a shorter letter if I'd had more time' thing why? long letters rule
a year ago
Mind Mine
shrinking hurts stop making yourself small because it’s convenient <3
7 months ago
Charlie Becker
Living the Questions, Reading the Clown-Arounds Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
a year ago
The Honest Broker
14 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now Today we cover everything from surf music to brain rot—and I tell you what really happens at an...
3 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 3 1) I often get told I end phonecalls prematurely, as in, I hang up before the other person thinks...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
1) I often get told I end phonecalls prematurely, as in, I hang up before the other person thinks we've finished the Goodbye Ritual. I think this may be because TV has seeped into my brain too much, and on telly they don't want to "
The Intimate Mirror
Guide to Healing the Mother Wound A Practical Path to Fundamental Safety and Belonging
7 months ago
Charlie Becker
Simplicity, Expertise, and Bullshit The difference between understanding and communicating
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the wonder of miyajima A kind stranger dmed to tell me that my rss feed was broken – turns out the code for displaying...
a year ago
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a year ago
A kind stranger dmed to tell me that my rss feed was broken – turns out the code for displaying custom fields on rss was throwing a php fatal error (Uncaught TypeError:...
Luxagraf:...
Baseball Diamonds We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York....
a year ago
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a year ago
We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Not that I wanted to go there that badly, but when we took the kids to a baseball game back in Florida the Baseball Hall of Fame somehow came up and I remember Elliott saying "can...
Both Are True
All the prompts & ideas for members of the 🦇 BATCAVE 🦇 - join now and get em all you silly goosebat
3 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
I Am Data Drivel Consider quitting Google Analytics With Me
over a year ago
Both Are True
i figured out why nothing is ever enough (science) its dopamine all the way down babe
a year ago
Daniel Bourke
AI Anxiety A walk into the unknown.
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
I will strive not to lose my temper easily Born in The Netherlands in 1926, Moshe Ze’ev Flinker was a Jewish teenager whose family fled to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born in The Netherlands in 1926, Moshe Ze’ev Flinker was a Jewish teenager whose family fled to Brussels in 1942 to escape Nazi persecution. It was there, in November, that 16-year-old Flinker began to keep the diary for which he is now remembered: a deeply personal record of the...
Luxagraf:...
Microcosm We sprinted across Florida, from St. Augustine to the far end of the panhandle in two quick drives....
a year ago
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a year ago
We sprinted across Florida, from St. Augustine to the far end of the panhandle in two quick drives. We stopped in the middle at the Tallahassee Car Museum, an odd little museum with a few campsites out front (not everything on Harvest Hosts is a farm). The kids and I wandered...
Scarlet Ink
Writing and Speaking Clearly and Concisely Communicating takes practice and skill. Learn the ingredients to high-quality communication.
4 months ago
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: parasites in power In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
6 months ago
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6 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 2017.
Diaries of Note
If I can paint three good pictures, then I shall go gladly Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due to complications after childbirth. Born in Germany in 1876, she had already established herself as a pioneering figure in the early expressionist art movement, and the hundreds of...
Left To Write
#9 Writemas: What Is Driving You? I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably well educated, started poker around the same time, and never felt like we were enough. Both of our poker careers were driven by insecurity. We both had this desire to prove...
The Map is Mostly...
Why make something beautiful? on starting a rose garden
6 months ago
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Monetising Minimalism To keep a site sustainable, it needs to be funded to some extent. Enough at least to tread water,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To keep a site sustainable, it needs to be funded to some extent. Enough at least to tread water, but more heavily if the site (or project) is to evolve to any meaningful degree. If a project can be self-sustainable by means of its own monetisation, that is the ideal situation....
Diaries of Note
God help our poor planet in the grip of this madness! World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star...
a year ago
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a year ago
World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star of a series of children’s books first published in 1945 that has since been translated into dozens of languages and enjoyed by millions. But before Pippi captured the imaginations...
The Ruffian
Best of The Ruffian 2024 Catch-up service:
8 months ago
Tech and Tea
Space to do whatever, Part II Insights from carving out space for creativity
over a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 15 More friends should have secret codes.1 If you're at a restaurant and the waiter asks "do you want...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
More friends should have secret codes.1 If you're at a restaurant and the waiter asks "do you want desert?", you often have this weird back-and-forth where 1) you're trying to figure out if the other person(s) want desert, 2) you're
DYNOMIGHT
Sloth was not the right answer Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what you’ve got here is a totally safe question. There are no “right” or “wrong” animals and no need to worry about any consequences. Let your heart soar! At school recently, I had seen...
Laetitia@Work
Why I'm tired of goals Laetitia@Work #55
over a year ago
Both Are True
art vs content vs whatever the hell gets you paid are we human, or are we content?
5 months ago
The Ruffian
What's the Point Of Protests? Maybe Not What We Think It Is
a year 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
Daniel Bourke
Building a garden in the backyard I started building a garden in the backyard. It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I started building a garden in the backyard. It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get going. A year! Mostly because of laziness and other things going on. A little dream I have is to one day eat a full feast that consists 100%
Isabel Unraveled
how good will you let it get? loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
4 months ago
Luxagraf:...
Wagoneer My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved. As we've slowed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved. As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
Nat Eliason's...
TODAY'S THE DAY! This book is not what you think
a year ago
How to Be a Stoic
Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
The Ruffian
The Google Gemini Debacle Shows Us Why Office Politics Matters More Than Ever On the Real Alignment Problem
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Music Business is Healthy Again? Really? I express deep skepticism
6 months ago
Both Are True
HERE IS THE REAL LINK FOR BATWRITE the last one didn't work is what people are telling me
3 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly of arithmetic. It’s one of the first things we learn as children. So I think it’s weird that only a tiny percentage of people seem to know how to actually use arithmetic. Or maybe...
RhysTranter.com
Notes on Blindness Set in the summer of 1983, Notes on Blindness is a beautiful 2016 docudrama that explores the life...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Set in the summer of 1983, Notes on Blindness is a beautiful 2016 docudrama that explores the life of writer and theologian John M. Hull.
Ryan Hoover's...
Friction-free Product Design
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
chronic unease Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate trauma, remember them deeply like they are etched into my bones helpless as...
DYNOMIGHT
Nursing doubts: Is breastfeeding good? If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED because BREAST MILK = OPTIMAL FOOD FOR BABY. But if you look for evidence, you’ll discover two disturbing facts. First, there’s no consensus about why breastfeeding is good. I’ve seen...
The Ruffian
Leslie's Razors Nine Rules of Thumb For Life
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Wonder, astonishment, and devotion In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of scientific thought for generations to come. Aboard that ship, with a mere 22 years under his belt, was Charles Darwin, whose role would lead to remarkable discoveries about the natural...
Mind Mine
write like you are mortal because you are
8 months 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.