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The Honest Broker
Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought They will even take less than "fair market value"
a year ago
Charlie Becker
Cathedral: A Short Story Castles in the Sky #42
a year ago
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Snakebites, Pig Hearts, and More A round up of the most important things happening in biotechnology and medicine
7 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
looking back at 2023 I write these every year for the purpose of documenting my life. The caveat is that this is written...
a year ago
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a year ago
I write these every year for the purpose of documenting my life. The caveat is that this is written with some recency bias and that the act of recollection is always faulty:...
Stoic Simple
The Feather "A breathtakingly beautiful book that shows how even a tiny bit of virtue can overcome any...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
"A breathtakingly beautiful book that shows how even a tiny bit of virtue can overcome any darkness." —Dustin Brady, author of Superhero for a Day After falling from an angel's wing, a tiny feather drifts past the boundaries of Heaven and into the mortal realm below. No longer...
The Ruffian
The End of History Academic historians are destroying their own discipline
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 5 A kinda wild fact about modern government is that (often) lawmakers don't read the bills they pass....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A kinda wild fact about modern government is that (often) lawmakers don't read the bills they pass. One thing I think would be fun is if every bill came with a short multiple-choice quiz, and lawmakers had to answer the quiz before they voted. There's a
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Where's my winter robot chauffeur? What we've been reading: science, metascience, tech, housing, fertility and more ...
5 months ago
Diaries of Note
France has capitulated On 22nd June 1940, just six weeks after German forces began their assault on western Europe, France...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On 22nd June 1940, just six weeks after German forces began their assault on western Europe, France surrendered to Hitler’s ferocious regime and life changed irrevocably for its millions of inhabitants. One of the affected was Virginia d’Albert-Lake, an American woman who had...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Advice For Building A Business Boiled Down Into One-Sentence Harsh Truths A 3-minute read
4 months ago
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky's Seven Most Underrated Essays A look back to celebrate my son being ~7 days old
7 months ago
Tech and Tea
When your post hits #1 on Hacker News A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and lessons learned
Luxagraf:...
Canada When we plotted our route east we planned to duck south of Lake Erie. The more direct route -- along...
a year ago
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a year ago
When we plotted our route east we planned to duck south of Lake Erie. The more direct route -- along the north shore of Lake Erie -- involved going into Canada, and the kids' passports were expired. About two weeks before we left Washburn we mentioned something about that to our...
Farza's Newsletter
i got suitcases full of matcha tea don't mess with me punk Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a live gameshow I hosted and gave away $100,000, had 225 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in SF, and then the following week had 125 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Rituals Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you hear this word, where does your mind take you? For me, I find myself asking, what's the difference between a ritual and routine? Turns out that, in essence, routines are practical,...
Ryan Hoover's...
Introducing Ask Product Hunt 🤔
over a year ago
Tech and Tea
Ask vs guess culture When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the...
over a year ago
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over 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.
Charlie Becker
Good Lessons from Bad Men Paradoxical lessons in masculinity from crime cinema
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The 40-Year-Old Version There is a path weaving through the seven lakes of Loveland that hugs the western edge of Boyd Lake,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a path weaving through the seven lakes of Loveland that hugs the western edge of Boyd Lake, kisses the tip of Horseshoe, parts the lips of Westerdoll and Heinricy, caresses the Upper and Lower Hoffmans.
Charlie Becker
Those who support you may not support your art. Castles in the Sky #43
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...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
A few months ago, I shared private entries from my journal. People seemed to enjoy reading them—so I’m doing it again.
journal – Winnie Lim
different realities under the same blue sky My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular...
a year ago
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a year ago
My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular scene of a kdrama we had just watched. She had thought the lines were full of hope...
Abhishek Chakraborty
The Perks of Being Resourceful Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his one-liners and uplifting sense of humour (even in the direst of situations), what makes Mark Watney standout from the rest of us is his limitless resourcefulness.
DYNOMIGHT
Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange (espissange? asspionage?) Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage?...
a year ago
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a year ago
(espissange? asspionage?) Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage? Why is the US so obsessed with getting its hands on him? At dynomight.net we don’t like to answer questions. Instead, we prefer to replace them with more abstract questions that we...
DYNOMIGHT
Thoughts while watching myself be automated An old friend visited me a few weeks ago. And we soon got to chatting about—what else—how long will...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
An old friend visited me a few weeks ago. And we soon got to chatting about—what else—how long will it be before all human intellectual work is automated. My position was: I dunno, because things are moving fast right now but what if we run out of data or scaling laws break and...
Paul Cudenec
Terrorism and the demonocracy One of the most shocking of all the harrowing accounts to come out of Gaza this year was provided by...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of the most shocking of all the harrowing accounts to come out of Gaza this year was provided by UK surgeon Nizam Mamode.
Ryan Hoover's...
The search for the Weekend Fund Chief of Staff
over a year ago
Passing Time
Valuable, but not productive Consulting & finance as black holes of elite human capital
9 months ago
Passing Time
Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures On the downside of activity-based friendships
a year ago
The Ruffian
How To Be Charles Darwin Nine Darwinian Habits of Mind and Behaviour
11 months ago
The Ruffian
20 Observations On Friendship Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
a year ago
The Ruffian
Movies as Discourse Generators Notes on Recent Films
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
The Most Useful Feedback Hurts Plus a sci-fi novel update
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
urgency A few days ago a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, causing one death and tens...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few days ago a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, causing one death and tens of people to be injured. The night the news broke out I commented to my partner...
Farza's Newsletter
me n Krillin just grabbed starbucks Putting a 20-minute timer on to write the ole newsletter this week. Zip has 4X’d in the last two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Putting a 20-minute timer on to write the ole newsletter this week. Zip has 4X’d in the last two weeks. So, that’s pretty wild. Just working hard to execute now. Create curriculum. Hire teachers. Scheudle classes. Add the necessary features to the product. All that jazz :).
The Honest Broker
Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture? In the new consumer economy, you get consumed
11 months ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Techniques for Getting Traction with your Social Site
over a year ago
Jason Fried
Separation In my experience, a key skill to develop is the ability to separate one thing from another. To...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my experience, a key skill to develop is the ability to separate one thing from another. To prevent the small from becoming the all. Take a policy, for example. Could be a government, or a school, or a home owner’s association, or something at work. Whatever it is, you don’t...
Jason Fried
We increased conversion ~30% and we don't know exactly how Not too long ago, we dedicated a 6-week cycle to improving Basecamp's onboarding flows. The aim was...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Not too long ago, we dedicated a 6-week cycle to improving Basecamp's onboarding flows. The aim was to increase conversion from trial to paid by smoothing out the initial experience of getting going, doing a better job of quick-teaching the basics, and making a few things a...
The Honest Broker
What Happened to My Search Engine? Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades
a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over 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...
Diaries of Note
We are like helpless animals Born in Paris in 1920, Benoîte Groult was nineteen when her beloved city fell under Nazi occupation...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born in Paris in 1920, Benoîte Groult was nineteen when her beloved city fell under Nazi occupation and the repressive rule of the Vichy regime. Throughout the war, she and her younger sister Flora kept a diary, chronicling the increasing constraints and daily indignities imposed...
Diaries of Note
Let me turn to this page when desolation falls upon me In 1915, Connecticut-born suffragist and author Alyse Gregory resigned as editor of The Dial and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 1915, Connecticut-born suffragist and author Alyse Gregory resigned as editor of The Dial and moved to a remote Dorset cliff-top to live with English writer Llewelyn Powys. During their time together, she authored an autobiography, essays, and novels, but perhaps her most...
The Intimate Mirror
The Seduction of Rationality How Our Minds Transform Reality to Serve Our Desires
5 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
I Am Data Drivel Consider quitting Google Analytics With Me
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
A Midwife’s Tale Esteemed midwife Martha Ballard was fifty when she began to keep a diary—a unique and detailed...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Paul Cudenec
Keeping it in the deep-state family It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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.
Nat Eliason's...
Softening Our Inner Critic Find nourishment in the weeds
a year ago
Isabel Unraveled
the two dogs in me words from a private reading i did in Toronto
4 months ago
The Honest Broker
A Conversation with Jason Moran The celebrated pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center talks with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The celebrated pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center talks with Ted Panken