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When Love Breaks Open How utter psychological collapse taught me what transformation really means (Breaking Open: Part 1)
31st Dec 2024
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When Love Breaks Open

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31st Dec 2024
How utter psychological collapse taught me what transformation really means (Breaking Open: Part 1)
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Good Employees Follow the Rules. Great Employees Break Them. Because the rules are meant for those who aren't as smart and brave as you. Seriously.
7th Oct 2024
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Good Employees Follow the Rules. Great Employees Break Them.

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7th Oct 2024
Because the rules are meant for those who aren't as smart and brave as you. Seriously.
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Vision Con The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
9th Feb 2024
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Vision Con

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9th Feb 2024
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
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Care in Design Care in design is ultimately about feeling rather than seeing. It is about being thoughtful of...
1st Sep 2022
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Care in Design

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1st Sep 2022
Care in design is ultimately about feeling rather than seeing. It is about being thoughtful of users—of humans. It is designing product details that you might randomly discover (sometimes even years later) rather than only designing what should be seen. Care in design is worrying...
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There Are Many More Worlds Than These Imagine two very bored castaways on a desert island, who have food and shelter but nothing to do....
7th Nov 2025
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There Are Many More Worlds Than These

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7th Nov 2025
Imagine two very bored castaways on a desert island, who have food and shelter but nothing to do. They spend the day throwing coconuts at each other for fun. One day a crate washes up, with its cargo intact: hundreds of classic paperbacks! Melville, Hugo, Tolkien, the Brontës,...
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More German than many Germans I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation....
2nd Aug 2026
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More German than many Germans

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2nd Aug 2026
I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
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Anti-Rivalrous Goods the rivalrousness s-curve
3rd Jul 2024
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Anti-Rivalrous Goods

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3rd Jul 2024
the rivalrousness s-curve
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Sinister strike On the comparative advantage of left-handed violence
18th Jun 2023
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Sinister strike

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18th Jun 2023
On the comparative advantage of left-handed violence
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I have woken fairly early to think about human life Frances Partridge was a remarkable British diarist born in 1900 whose long life was interwoven with...
1st Oct 2023
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I have woken fairly early to think about human life

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1st Oct 2023
Frances Partridge was a remarkable British diarist born in 1900 whose long life was interwoven with the illustrious Bloomsbury Group. By 1967, when she wrote the following entry, she had already lost two of her nearest and dearest: her husband, Ralph, in 1960, and then tragically...
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Gear Review: Hilleberg Akto Tent TL;DR version: If you want a reasonably lightweight, bomb-proof solo shelter that will last years,...
25th Feb 2025
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Gear Review: Hilleberg Akto Tent

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25th Feb 2025
TL;DR version: If you want a reasonably lightweight, bomb-proof solo shelter that will last years, the Hilleberg Akto is the tent to get. Also worth considering is the Hilleberg Enan, which is discussed in the review below. Most of the best days I can remember, I woke up in a...
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He would not cease singing or feeding for an earthquake Born in 1838 in Scotland, John Muir was 11 years old when his family moved to Fountain Lake Farm in...
1st Feb 2023
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He would not cease singing or feeding for an earthquake

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1st Feb 2023
Born in 1838 in Scotland, John Muir was 11 years old when his family moved to Fountain Lake Farm in Wisconsin, USA. It was whilst growing up on that farm, now recognised as a National Historic Landmark thanks to his work, that the “Father of the National Parks” fell in love with...
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the reality that exists in me I just had my period, so I am feeling a little more fatigued than usual. Every month around this...
3rd Nov 2024
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the reality that exists in me

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3rd Nov 2024
I just had my period, so I am feeling a little more fatigued than usual. Every month around this time I tend to wonder why the body finds it so difficult to...
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The Ford Foundation: a fork-tongued global mafia front [Plus audio version]
1st Sep 2025
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The Ford Foundation: a fork-tongued global mafia front

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1st Sep 2025
[Plus audio version]
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11 Universal And Objective Truths About Making Friends the reason we are here
2nd Jul 2026
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11 Universal And Objective Truths About Making Friends

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2nd Jul 2026
the reason we are here
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ATVBT Survey: April post about posts
2nd May 2025
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ATVBT Survey: April

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2nd May 2025
post about posts
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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
1st Jun 2025
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Beauty Is Stone Cold in the Arts, but Hot as a Consumer Product

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1st Jun 2025
The state of aesthetics in the 21st century is very, very strange
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Special Hell 7, Stasis Crackers On the hard days I get close to walking away from everything. Goodbye world. So far I have never...
2nd Apr 2016
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Special Hell 7, Stasis Crackers

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2nd Apr 2016
On the hard days I get close to walking away from everything. Goodbye world. So far I have never given in. Except for that very first time.
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Taste We need good taste to make good things, but we must first qualify and understand what good means in...
31st Jul 2024
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Taste

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31st Jul 2024
We need good taste to make good things, but we must first qualify and understand what good means in the sense of design. Taste is the ability to identify quality. To understand quality we need to look critically at: materials that are fit for purpose, ergonomics that considers...
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Mirror As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting,...
4th Dec 2024
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Mirror

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4th Dec 2024
As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting, it's not surprising that many people take the time to reflect on their recent past — what we've managed to achieve, what we learned, what we failed in, where we went, and what we...
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Everyone Is Mostly the Same… (And Why This Is Good News) I started my first blog in 2007. By 2011, writing and publishing online was my full-time job. By...
9th May 2022
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Everyone Is Mostly the Same… (And Why This Is Good News)

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9th May 2022
I started my first blog in 2007. By 2011, writing and publishing online was my full-time job. By 2013, that writing was being read by over a million people each month. And while the exact number has fluctuated over the years, that still remains true. Early on in my career, as you...
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Chapter 2: prioritize your favorite people the friendship theory of everything: longform edition
3rd Nov 2025
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Chapter 2: prioritize your favorite people

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3rd Nov 2025
the friendship theory of everything: longform edition
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Future of Work: 9 books I read in 2023 Laetitia@Work #65
5th Jan 2024
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Future of Work: 9 books I read in 2023

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5th Jan 2024
Laetitia@Work #65
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The real data wall is billions of years of evolution Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you...
3rd Oct 2024
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The real data wall is billions of years of evolution

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3rd Oct 2024
Say you have a time machine. You can only use it once, to send a single idea back to 2005. If you wanted to speed up the development of AI, what would you send back? Many people suggest attention or transformers. But I’m convinced that the answer is “brute-force”—to throw as much...
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Hamono Sushi While trying to decide on which Omakase we were going to try while in Portland, I briefly considered...
1st Sep 2026
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Hamono Sushi

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1st Sep 2026
While trying to decide on which Omakase we were going to try while in Portland, I briefly considered Nimblefish and Nodoguro, however after reading up on Reddit, we narrowed in on Hamono Sushi in Downtown Portland.  Besides the Omakase course, the one thing that makes Hamono...
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Coaching Toolkit: Sitting With the Unknown Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
21st Aug 2025
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Coaching Toolkit: Sitting With the Unknown

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21st Aug 2025
Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
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Love myself? Knowing what I know? A lunchtime meditation on whether 'being the best' is even a real thing
9th Jul 2024
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Love myself? Knowing what I know?

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9th Jul 2024
A lunchtime meditation on whether 'being the best' is even a real thing
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Quarterly Author Update: January 2025 Book sales, Husk update, and a new podcast
2nd Jan 2025
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Quarterly Author Update: January 2025

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2nd Jan 2025
Book sales, Husk update, and a new podcast
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Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
2nd Jul 2023
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Everything I know about gardening

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2nd Jul 2023
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
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Saying No to what I feel I should do Navigating the space between should and want, and finding more permission for ease and rest.
7th Apr 2024
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Saying No to what I feel I should do

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7th Apr 2024
Navigating the space between should and want, and finding more permission for ease and rest.
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Issue 24: How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.
1st Jul 2026
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Issue 24: How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism

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1st Jul 2026
Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.
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25 Useful Ideas for 2025 Mental models to kickstart the new year
2nd Jan 2025
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25 Useful Ideas for 2025

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2nd Jan 2025
Mental models to kickstart the new year
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Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments Say an alien spaceship is headed for Earth. It has 30 aliens on it. The aliens are weak and small....
2nd Oct 2025
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Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments

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2nd Oct 2025
Say an alien spaceship is headed for Earth. It has 30 aliens on it. The aliens are weak and small. They have no weapons and carry no diseases. They breed at rates similar to humans. They are bringing no new technology. No other ships are coming. There’s no trick—except that they...
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Lemon Lyme Summer The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips...
22nd Sep 2024
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Lemon Lyme Summer

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22nd Sep 2024
The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips of the pines above glow for a moment before the sun slides up and behind the distant clouds. The sun rises near the center of the bay when we arrive in April, but by the solstice...
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Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode Podcast: Play in new window | Download 37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show...
1st Oct 2026
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Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode

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1st Oct 2026
Podcast: Play in new window | Download 37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show from Adam, Alistair, and Abdullah. Discussing my favourite personal shows that are still going (Into Your Head, The Overnightscape Underground), task management (Getting Things...
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Saddened by the tech industry Watching the pendulum swing away from people-centric leadership and wishing pendulums didn't swing...
17th Jun 2023
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Saddened by the tech industry

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17th Jun 2023
Watching the pendulum swing away from people-centric leadership and wishing pendulums didn't swing quite so far in the other direction.
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Power, Vulnerability, and Soulful Collaboration A Conversation with Dechen McSweeney on the Nine Mistakes We Make in Relationship to Power
8th May 2025
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Power, Vulnerability, and Soulful Collaboration

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8th May 2025
A Conversation with Dechen McSweeney on the Nine Mistakes We Make in Relationship to Power
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No One Is Excused From This It might seem a bit out of character for a powerful general—a fierce warrior—to go everywhere with a...
21st Sep 2026
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No One Is Excused From This

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21st Sep 2026
It might seem a bit out of character for a powerful general—a fierce warrior—to go everywhere with a book tucked under their arm. But in ancient Rome, that was the figure that the great Scipio Aemilianus cut. He was known for training in philosophy as arduously as he trained at...
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Barenbrug House In the summer of 2021 I made the decision to plan a house project. Not just to save, find, and buy a...
3rd Jul 2022
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Barenbrug House

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3rd Jul 2022
In the summer of 2021 I made the decision to plan a house project. Not just to save, find, and buy a pre-existing house—that would be far too easy—and boring (unless you're doing an interesting renovation). Instead, my partner and I are opting to buy a plot of land in Scotland...
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Dear PendingKetchup PendingKetchup comments on my recent post on what it means for something to be heritable: The...
11th Sep 2025
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Dear PendingKetchup

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11th Sep 2025
PendingKetchup comments on my recent post on what it means for something to be heritable: The article seems pretty good at math and thinking through unusual implications, but my armchair Substack eugenics alarm that I keep in the back of my brain is beeping. Saying that variance...
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How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element...
29th Jul 2024
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How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process

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29th Jul 2024
Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element of a good idea.
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Beat, Bomb, Bookshop: What I Read in July 2025 July is always a busy month for me, as I try to get ahead with work so I can take time off in...
3rd Nov 2025
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Beat, Bomb, Bookshop: What I Read in July 2025

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3rd Nov 2025
July is always a busy month for me, as I try to get ahead with work so I can take time off in August. I seem to have still done a lot of reading, though! One note of warning: I don't include plot spoilers in these reviews, but
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The Bad Goal of $5m by 30 And perhaps a better framing
6th Mar 2023
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The Bad Goal of $5m by 30

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6th Mar 2023
And perhaps a better framing
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Introducing Nutrify 2.0 Multi-Food Mode, 552 New Foods and Food Share
9th Dec 2025
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Introducing Nutrify 2.0

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9th Dec 2025
Multi-Food Mode, 552 New Foods and Food Share
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Collaboration & Denial [I read the article here)
2nd Feb 2026
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Collaboration & Denial

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2nd Feb 2026
[I read the article here)
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Miss you, Little D
21st Dec 2023
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Miss you, Little D

from Ryan Hoover's Writing [alt+shift+b] in life

21st Dec 2023
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How Dangerous is Rock Climbing? There is an adage in climbing—there are old climbers, and there are bold climbers, but there are no...
28th Nov 2022
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How Dangerous is Rock Climbing?

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28th Nov 2022
There is an adage in climbing—there are old climbers, and there are bold climbers, but there are no old bold climbers. I plan on getting pretty old.
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what's your favorite summer book? Zhang Enli, The Wires (3), 2015
2nd Jun 2026
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what's your favorite summer book?

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2nd Jun 2026
Zhang Enli, The Wires (3), 2015
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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.
5th Aug 2024
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The Ideal Manager Exercise — How to Choose and Communicate With Your Current or Future Manager

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5th Aug 2024
The reflection exercise that helped me find and cultivate a successful relationship with my manager.
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Raising ourselves from the lowness of modernity [Plus audio version]
11 hours ago
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Raising ourselves from the lowness of modernity

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11 hours ago
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The map is clear but the road is bumpy. Castles in the Sky | October 27 - November 2, 2024
6th Nov 2024
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The map is clear but the road is bumpy.

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6th Nov 2024
Castles in the Sky | October 27 - November 2, 2024
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How To Deal With Regret ( 3 Stoic Strategies to Live Free) What Is Regret? “Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, – the fear of future...
23rd Aug 2023
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How To Deal With Regret ( 3 Stoic Strategies to Live Free)

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23rd Aug 2023
What Is Regret? “Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all, – the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.” – Seneca, from Letters from a Stoic After a long day at...
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Unleash Your Inner Sage: 5 Powerful Mindsets Fostered by Stoicism By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A...
2nd Jun 2023
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Unleash Your Inner Sage: 5 Powerful Mindsets Fostered by Stoicism

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2nd Jun 2023
By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A person who overcame all of their personal defects to achieve a life of complete tranquility and goodness. The perfect Stoic, if you will.  They referred to this person as the Stoic...
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hello depression my old friend i guess we're talking once again
10th Dec 2025
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hello depression my old friend

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10th Dec 2025
i guess we're talking once again
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33 Powerful Books That May Change Your Life I've read over 1,000 nonfiction books in my life, and these 33 are the most powerful of them all. I...
22nd Feb 2024
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33 Powerful Books That May Change Your Life

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

22nd Feb 2024
I've read over 1,000 nonfiction books in my life, and these 33 are the most powerful of them all. I can honestly say they changed my life, who's to say they won't change yours too? Don't just take my word for it though. Read on for my summary of all 33 books and see for yourself...
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Mark Manson’s 3 Rules for Life Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his...
14th Sep 2023
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Mark Manson’s 3 Rules for Life

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14th Sep 2023
Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his books, "12 Rules for Life" and "12 More Rules for Life." I've had the pleasure of chatting with him on his podcast and even got some F-bombs out of him. But what really stuck with me...
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Leaving Germany: 3 things I’ll miss / 3 things I won’t miss about Germany Laetitia@Work #72
14th Aug 2024
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Leaving Germany: 3 things I’ll miss / 3 things I won’t miss about Germany

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14th Aug 2024
Laetitia@Work #72
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You Don't Want to Be Rich, You Want Independence “Autonomy is wealth”
2nd May 2025
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You Don't Want to Be Rich, You Want Independence

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2nd May 2025
“Autonomy is wealth”
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Growing a Hornbeam Hedge What's involved and the cost
12th Apr 2025
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Growing a Hornbeam Hedge

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12th Apr 2025
What's involved and the cost
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The Art of Simplification: Why We (over) Build When We Should Simplify Removing things is often just as complex as adding things. It is a way to add value which is often...
3rd Mar 2025
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The Art of Simplification: Why We (over) Build When We Should Simplify

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3rd Mar 2025
Removing things is often just as complex as adding things. It is a way to add value which is often overlooked.
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Mobile Bay We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go...
20th Mar 2024
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Mobile Bay

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

20th Mar 2024
We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go to New Orleans, and then up into the Ozarks, before heading back up to Wisconsin for the summer, but given how mild the winter turned out to be, we decided to press north sooner...
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Peak Burnham A Champagne Supernova In the Sky
3rd Oct 2026
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Peak Burnham

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3rd Oct 2026
A Champagne Supernova In the Sky
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Transformed into a couch On taking this time to slooooooow down
28th Dec 2022
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Transformed into a couch

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28th Dec 2022
On taking this time to slooooooow down
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Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to...
1st May 2023
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Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study

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1st May 2023
Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, we’ll look at how to solve Laplace’s Equation, , in two dimensions using nothing but Microsoft Excel. Introduction Heat transfer is a critical concept in...
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The book of discoveries Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather...
5th Jan 2026
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The book of discoveries

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jan 2026
Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.
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the art of getting laid: a review of the game, 20 years later and some announcements :)
7th Oct 2025
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the art of getting laid: a review of the game, 20 years later

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Oct 2025
and some announcements :)
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Is this really normal? [Plus audio version]
2nd Apr 2026
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Is this really normal?

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Apr 2026
[Plus audio version]
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Emptiness and Values Realism Beyond the False Dichotomy
1st Apr 2025
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Emptiness and Values Realism

from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Apr 2025
Beyond the False Dichotomy
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Tighter than Scum A mile of scum clung to the edges of the grocery store aisles. Every night the machine that waxed...
8th Sep 2018
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Tighter than Scum

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Sep 2018
A mile of scum clung to the edges of the grocery store aisles. Every night the machine that waxed the floor spit excess gunk onto the baseboards. Hal Smith pondered the mess from above, perched in a cloud of cigarette smoke, surveying his store from behind mirrored glass.
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Why Secondhand Is Now Better Than New Or how the thrift store suddenly became cool
1st Jan 2026
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Why Secondhand Is Now Better Than New

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jan 2026
Or how the thrift store suddenly became cool
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The most profound message in the history of junk literature I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books...
1st Jul 2017
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The most profound message in the history of junk literature

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1st Jul 2017
I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books thicker than the width of my thumb.
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Here's Where It All Stands | #101 Book Club, New Bio, New Podcast, and a New Place to Buy Used Books
2nd Apr 2026
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Here's Where It All Stands | #101

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Apr 2026
Book Club, New Bio, New Podcast, and a New Place to Buy Used Books
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Inequality, galactic and planetary Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
26th May 2023
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Inequality, galactic and planetary

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26th May 2023
Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
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drawing & painting as a form of meditation I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since...
1st Jun 2024
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drawing & painting as a form of meditation

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jun 2024
I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since then I’ve been trying to do it more regularly, hoping to incorporate it as a...
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When The Writing Is Very Good That Doesn't Matter The most popular link last time was this list of things that aren't doing the thing, with this piece...
4th Dec 2025
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When The Writing Is Very Good That Doesn't Matter

from Caroline Crampton [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Dec 2025
The most popular link last time was this list of things that aren't doing the thing, with this piece wondering if you are Actually Trying second. Somehow, the most insightful thing I have read/seen about contemporary social media usage is this Google Slides presentation. It's
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Big Companies Don’t Get Slower Because They Become Stupid Designing processes and software to scale is expensive but necessary. I'll walk through why scaling...
2nd Mar 2026
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Big Companies Don’t Get Slower Because They Become Stupid

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2nd Mar 2026
Designing processes and software to scale is expensive but necessary. I'll walk through why scaling by definition (basically always) leads to a loss of agility.
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I Have a Design Portfolio For the longest time, I’ve shared my work through blog posts or social media, rather than having a...
3rd Jun 2024
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I Have a Design Portfolio

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jun 2024
For the longest time, I’ve shared my work through blog posts or social media, rather than having a typical portfolio. But I’ve decided it’s time to pull together a more cohesive collection of my work, focusing on product design and creative direction. My projects are usually...
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Sticks On Dirt I think we've always know that if we got ourselves another patch of dirt with some sticks on it,...
21st May 2025
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Sticks On Dirt

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

21st May 2025
I think we've always know that if we got ourselves another patch of dirt with some sticks on it, it'd be in one of a handful of very small places. The short list was, in the order we visited them: Apalachicola FL, Mancos CO, Washburn WI, and the Outer Banks NC (especially...
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9 years together To me, being in a relationship is like choosing to engage in a continuous power battle. I know it...
2nd May 2025
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9 years together

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd May 2025
To me, being in a relationship is like choosing to engage in a continuous power battle. I know it sounds unromantic but age has taught me that the way to truly sustain...
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Tipping is Spreading and It Sucks Every tip given in the United States is a blow at our experiment in democracy.
9th Feb 2023
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Tipping is Spreading and It Sucks

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Feb 2023
Every tip given in the United States is a blow at our experiment in democracy.
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Small steps, Big dreams proudly announcing Tech and Tea
2nd Apr 2023
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Small steps, Big dreams

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2nd Apr 2023
proudly announcing Tech and Tea
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Staring at a Rotten Shingle Running on Empty
a week ago
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Staring at a Rotten Shingle

from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life

a week ago
Running on Empty
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safe and alive both at once!
2nd Aug 2026
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safe and alive

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Aug 2026
both at once!
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Sonder, Sobriety, and Abstractions | Friday Footnotes #3 Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reading and reflection meet real life.
5th Apr 2025
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Sonder, Sobriety, and Abstractions | Friday Footnotes #3

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Apr 2025
Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reading and reflection meet real life.
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The journey and the destination When is it about the journey, and can it also be the destination?
20th Dec 2024
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The journey and the destination

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

20th Dec 2024
When is it about the journey, and can it also be the destination?
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A Day in the Life of a Solo-ish Builder What my days actually look like right now, AI workflows, and some random tangents.
12th Mar 2026
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A Day in the Life of a Solo-ish Builder

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12th Mar 2026
What my days actually look like right now, AI workflows, and some random tangents.
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drinking a spanish latte but i dont speak spanish is this legal I come from a Pakistani family. Unless your new initiative is a big success, you're a big flop. As a...
3rd Oct 2023
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drinking a spanish latte but i dont speak spanish is this legal

from Farza's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Oct 2023
I come from a Pakistani family. Unless your new initiative is a big success, you're a big flop. As a society, no matter where you're from -- we have a tendency to look at those that did something really hard, but didn't figure it out as a person who "failed".
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Functional Energy Maintenance Are you as glad as I am that December is here? November did its best to bring me down. A pinched...
3rd Dec 2017
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Functional Energy Maintenance

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Dec 2017
Are you as glad as I am that December is here? November did its best to bring me down. A pinched nerve derailed my running. There was an unexpected death in the family. Then there was the typical stress of interstate travel over Thanksgiving. And just as the worst of it seemed to...
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Male Fertility Protocol A bet on general health principles leading to favourable male fertility outcomes.
30th Jul 2026
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Male Fertility Protocol

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

30th Jul 2026
A bet on general health principles leading to favourable male fertility outcomes.
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The American vs. European Mindset on Life A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find...
1st Jun 2025
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The American vs. European Mindset on Life

from Mert Bulan - Blog & Portfolio [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jun 2025
A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find happiness.
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What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies available now as an e-book, audiobook, or directly on the Wait But...
2nd May 2023
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What’s Our Problem?

from Wait But Why [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd May 2023
a self-help book for societies available now as an e-book, audiobook, or directly on the Wait But Why website The post What’s Our Problem? appeared first on Wait But Why.
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The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over... And the tech bros won
2nd Oct 2025
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The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over...

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Oct 2025
And the tech bros won
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happy birthday to my favouritest person Every year on our birth days we’ll try to make a trip overseas – Singapore is about 50km from east...
7th Jul 2024
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happy birthday to my favouritest person

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Jul 2024
Every year on our birth days we’ll try to make a trip overseas – Singapore is about 50km from east to west so we can’t do any local travelling. Travelling is vital...
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ETHDenver: A Glimpse into the Future I signed up for ETHDenver 2020 hoping to learn more about cryptocurrency. What I came away with was...
18th Feb 2020
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ETHDenver: A Glimpse into the Future

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Feb 2020
I signed up for ETHDenver 2020 hoping to learn more about cryptocurrency. What I came away with was questions about the viability of, well, everything.
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a VERY BIG pre-order giveaway!!!! ONE OF YOU IS WINNING A TRIP TO CARMEL!!!! I promise I’ll stop yapping about pre-orders soon,...
14th Jul 2024
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a VERY BIG pre-order giveaway!!!!

from What To Cook [alt+shift+b] in life

14th Jul 2024
ONE OF YOU IS WINNING A TRIP TO CARMEL!!!! I promise I’ll stop yapping about pre-orders soon, because the book will BE IN YOUR HANDS IN LESS THAN A MONTH! But until pub day on August 13th, it’s pre-order city, baby. And to show you just how SERIOUSLY, UNENDINGLY GRATEFUL I am to...
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Risk-of-Ruin Goods In 2018, the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting (or rather, legalized states to legalize...
7th Apr 2025
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Risk-of-Ruin Goods

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Apr 2025
In 2018, the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting (or rather, legalized states to legalize sports betting), which led to a flurry of new sports bets and online casinos. Anyone who listens to US podcasts has probably heard the consequences: a flood of companies desperately...
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When knowledge is stupidity [Plus audio version]
3rd Jul 2026
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When knowledge is stupidity

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jul 2026
[Plus audio version]
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The spirit of Sophia: our promise Our Beloved!
15th Sep 2024
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The spirit of Sophia: our promise

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

15th Sep 2024
Our Beloved!
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The Refragmentation
29th Oct 2022
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The Refragmentation

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in life

29th Oct 2022
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Coaching Toolkit: Balance coaching to find new perspectives The power of mindset shifts and choice and a Tech and Tea balance coaching tool to guide you through...
7th Jul 2025
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Coaching Toolkit: Balance coaching to find new perspectives

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Jul 2025
The power of mindset shifts and choice and a Tech and Tea balance coaching tool to guide you through uncertain times.
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Podcast: How To Get The Most Out of LLMs Part II Of My Excellent Conversation With Jasmine Sun
3rd Jul 2025
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Podcast: How To Get The Most Out of LLMs

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jul 2025
Part II Of My Excellent Conversation With Jasmine Sun
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The Problem With AI Life Coaching—and My Solution This year has been one of the most important, yet challenging years of my life. And as we’ll see,...
5th Dec 2025
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The Problem With AI Life Coaching—and My Solution

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Dec 2025
This year has been one of the most important, yet challenging years of my life. And as we’ll see, that might not be a coincidence. As you probably know, I’ve been calling out some of the shady dealings and worst practices of the self-help industry for my entire career. Whether...
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Everyday It's 1984 Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying,...
9th Aug 2023
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Everyday It's 1984

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Aug 2023
Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying, hmm, maybe we lost something between then and now were... bad? The American Psychological Association considers nostalgia a subset of depression, which is, ahem, depressing. But...
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Superglue and milk We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He...
3rd Mar 2024
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Superglue and milk

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Mar 2024
We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He moves slower than most. It keeps me in check when I’m steaming along. Walking into the movies I looked at the time. We were late. Friday afternoon traffic. So
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Your Social Universe Imagine yourself as a star.
6th Mar 2024
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Your Social Universe

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Mar 2024
Imagine yourself as a star.
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“Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let’s improve online discourse Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of...
29th Mar 2020
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“Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let’s improve online discourse

from Jason Crawford [alt+shift+b] in life

29th Mar 2020
Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based on this. Recently when someone commented...
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Maximum connections have been reached I was going through my drafts folder, and came across a post I’d written way back in 2018. I’m not...
4th Apr 2026
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Maximum connections have been reached

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Apr 2026
I was going through my drafts folder, and came across a post I’d written way back in 2018. I’m not sure what site I was browsing at the time, but it was still a fun observation. If I came across this error in a more modern context, I’d assume site owners are placing limits to...
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stones in my pocket a palm full of gems, next time I see you
29th Dec 2022
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stones in my pocket

from skin contact [alt+shift+b] in life

29th Dec 2022
a palm full of gems, next time I see you
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Becoming an adult, one toddler tantrum at a time. A letter from a father
5th Apr 2024
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Becoming an adult, one toddler tantrum at a time.

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Apr 2024
A letter from a father
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me and george lucas just made a sound cloud hit Below are some of my thoughts on doing work you’re passionate about. If you don’t care about my...
7th Feb 2021
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me and george lucas just made a sound cloud hit

from Farza's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Feb 2021
Below are some of my thoughts on doing work you’re passionate about. If you don’t care about my thoughts here, ignore this :). — I hear this really often from friends: I am currently doing X I really really want to do Y In order for me to leave X to do Y, I need to first do A, B,...
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Is Civility a Fantasy? Maybe - But It's One That Democracy Depends On
4th Oct 2025
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Is Civility a Fantasy?

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Oct 2025
Maybe - But It's One That Democracy Depends On
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The Most Useful Feedback Hurts Plus a sci-fi novel update
14th Aug 2024
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The Most Useful Feedback Hurts

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

14th Aug 2024
Plus a sci-fi novel update
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Once it's built, it's built The pawn can only move forward
11th Jun 2026
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Once it's built, it's built

from The AI Underwriter [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Jun 2026
The pawn can only move forward
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Easter 2022: A Roman Pilgrimage This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the...
5th May 2022
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Easter 2022: A Roman Pilgrimage

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

5th May 2022
This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the things that we did, with a selection of photographs from each day.
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Cheerleader or critic Build up or tear down?
18th Apr 2026
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Cheerleader or critic

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Apr 2026
Build up or tear down?
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Trigger Warning: Reality Hurts Years ago, many readers wrote to me complaining that I didn’t include trigger warnings in my...
7th Sep 2022
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Trigger Warning: Reality Hurts

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Sep 2022
Years ago, many readers wrote to me complaining that I didn’t include trigger warnings in my articles. This was 2014-15 or so. The trigger warning thing had become popular on university campuses and left-leaning news sites. Given that at the time many of my readers were young...
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How I Disintermediated My Writing Career It's a clumsy word, but a lovely thing to do
2nd Jun 2023
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How I Disintermediated My Writing Career

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jun 2023
It's a clumsy word, but a lovely thing to do
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Remote work and sick days a double-edged sword
11th Feb 2023
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Remote work and sick days

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Feb 2023
a double-edged sword
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The Life of Saint Pambo Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390)...
18th Jul 2020
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The Life of Saint Pambo

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Jul 2020
Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390) thought to be a disciple of St Antony. I was struck by the following passage...
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10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars How to Stay Sane in a Mania
2nd Jul 2024
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10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jul 2024
How to Stay Sane in a Mania
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The myth of Snow Leopard Snow Leopard was a version of Mac OS X released in 2010. It was billed by Apple as having “0 new...
1st Aug 2026
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The myth of Snow Leopard

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Aug 2026
Snow Leopard was a version of Mac OS X released in 2010. It was billed by Apple as having “0 new features”, with a focus on refining the system, improving efficiency, and fixing bugs. Those of us using Macs at the time welcomed the news after living with updates that seemingly...
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Talent Myths and the Story of Imperceptible Gains I made a discovery as I sifted through the running data I have been collecting for the last nine...
4th Jun 2017
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Talent Myths and the Story of Imperceptible Gains

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Jun 2017
I made a discovery as I sifted through the running data I have been collecting for the last nine years. After 897 runs and 4,659 miles I have gotten faster. How much faster? Well, for every mile I run I get 0.012 seconds faster. That's about as imperceptible as a fart.
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The military mechanism of zimperial occupation The first of two related book reviews
1st Dec 2025
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The military mechanism of zimperial occupation

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Dec 2025
The first of two related book reviews
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Love Grows The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.
8th Feb 2025
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Love Grows

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Feb 2025
The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.
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Thinking By Hand How Bob Dylan Got His Mojo Back
2nd May 2026
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Thinking By Hand

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd May 2026
How Bob Dylan Got His Mojo Back
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How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult? Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
3rd Jul 2024
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How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jul 2024
Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
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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....
2nd Jul 2018
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Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic?

from How to Be a Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jul 2018
[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...
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Seasonal Changes Finding space and time to sloooooow down
19th Nov 2023
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Seasonal Changes

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

19th Nov 2023
Finding space and time to sloooooow down
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A Rural Public Transit Odyssey Across New York's North Country by Rural Transit Bus
5th Jun 2025
1

A Rural Public Transit Odyssey

from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jun 2025
Across New York's North Country by Rural Transit Bus
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One Hell of a Year Reflections on 2024 in 'the Hinterlands'
13th Jan 2025
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One Hell of a Year

from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life

13th Jan 2025
Reflections on 2024 in 'the Hinterlands'
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Every Relationship Is Win-Win or Lose-Lose. Relationships can only be win-win, or lose-lose, because they're a connection between two people.
3rd Aug 2026
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Every Relationship Is Win-Win or Lose-Lose.

from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Aug 2026
Relationships can only be win-win, or lose-lose, because they're a connection between two people.
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The Perks of Being Vulnerable Contrary to its literal meaning, vulnerability is not a weakness. As we shall learn, vulnerability...
4th Nov 2021
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The Perks of Being Vulnerable

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Nov 2021
Contrary to its literal meaning, vulnerability is not a weakness. As we shall learn, vulnerability is actually about confronting our deepest fears so that we can be honest with ourselves and, by extension, others.
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You Won’t Believe My Morning A highly unexpected turn of events. The post You Won’t Believe My Morning appeared first on Wait But...
25th Mar 2020
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You Won’t Believe My Morning

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25th Mar 2020
A highly unexpected turn of events. The post You Won’t Believe My Morning appeared first on Wait But Why.
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To Heal an Ancient Schism A Letter from a Catholic to an Eastern Orthodox Christian
8th Mar 2025
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To Heal an Ancient Schism

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8th Mar 2025
A Letter from a Catholic to an Eastern Orthodox Christian
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Searching for Ken Griffey Jr Ken Griffey Jr’s face was sandwiched between thick plastic, his friendly grin locked up – screwed...
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Searching for Ken Griffey Jr

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7th Oct 2017
Ken Griffey Jr’s face was sandwiched between thick plastic, his friendly grin locked up – screwed tight at four corners. A gold chain hung around his Mariner’s blue turtleneck, a bat rested on his left shoulder, calligraphic letters hovered above a gold star announcing the birth...
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№ 77: Reflecting on 2023 Doubt, love and growing more into myself.
14th Jan 2024
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№ 77: Reflecting on 2023

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14th Jan 2024
Doubt, love and growing more into myself.
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Some things are worth preserving. | #98 Christmas in the stacks
13th Dec 2025
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Some things are worth preserving. | #98

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13th Dec 2025
Christmas in the stacks
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Randomly right One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing. Every forest, every...
12th Mar 2025
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Randomly right

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12th Mar 2025
One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing. Every forest, every field, every place untouched by humans is full of randomness. Nothing lines up, a million different shapes, sprouting seeds burst where the winds — or birds — randomly drop...
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Dynomight internet survey Hello, clever charming good-looking people. I am in need of a richer understanding of: you the...
2nd May 2024
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Dynomight internet survey

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2nd May 2024
Hello, clever charming good-looking people. I am in need of a richer understanding of: you the nature of reality consciousness ethics dynomight internet website and have therefore created a survey, which you can take here. (You don’t need to create an account or give your email...
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Car trouble Some time ago—I’m not sure when exactly—my car started rattling. It would only rattle: When the...
6th Feb 2025
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Car trouble

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6th Feb 2025
Some time ago—I’m not sure when exactly—my car started rattling. It would only rattle: When the engine was on, sitting idle, or When accelerating with just the right amount of throttle. This rattle, I did not like it. It sounded like a tiny spoon in a garbage disposal. Which...
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The Locker Room Talk of Mentors and Minions I saw myself at 22, lifting a wheel, struggling under its weight to attach it to a car. Behind me...
4th Nov 2017
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The Locker Room Talk of Mentors and Minions

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4th Nov 2017
I saw myself at 22, lifting a wheel, struggling under its weight to attach it to a car. Behind me was an experienced mechanic who has mastered the heavier machinery. He worked with skill, with a quickness that hid the forces he was wielding, making the power required to rip tires...
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We'll Never Have Flying Cars A look at why flying cars are unlikely to become a reality.
29th Sep 2025
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We'll Never Have Flying Cars

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29th Sep 2025
A look at why flying cars are unlikely to become a reality.
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Why I rebuilt this site The journey of building this site.
31st Oct 2024
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Why I rebuilt this site

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31st Oct 2024
The journey of building this site.
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Why Taste Matters More Us designers love to talk about tools, processes, and skills. We debate software, trade shortcuts,...
6th Sep 2025
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Why Taste Matters More

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6th Sep 2025
Us designers love to talk about tools, processes, and skills. We debate software, trade shortcuts, and show off case studies filled with research frameworks and clever flows. All useful things. But what rarely gets talked about and showcased in portfolios is the one thing that...
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Spinning significance out of a senseless slog Contributing to a chosen culture via running
9th May 2025
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Spinning significance out of a senseless slog

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9th May 2025
Contributing to a chosen culture via running
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Alaska Range 2026 Running the three-man in the Land of the Midnight Sun
7th Jul 2026
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Alaska Range 2026

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7th Jul 2026
Running the three-man in the Land of the Midnight Sun
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The Heroes Behind Healthcare.gov The untold story of how a small team of innovators almost fundamentally changed government
1st Dec 2013
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The Heroes Behind Healthcare.gov

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1st Dec 2013
The untold story of how a small team of innovators almost fundamentally changed government
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The Father Wound Healing Our Relationship with Authority and Value
4th Feb 2025
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The Father Wound

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4th Feb 2025
Healing Our Relationship with Authority and Value
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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...
2nd Mar 2025
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because we are both pessimists

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Mar 2025
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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Reflections on six months of fatherhood To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the...
31st Jan 2022
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Reflections on six months of fatherhood

from Jason Crawford [alt+shift+b] in life

31st Jan 2022
To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the spoon approaches. Second, you must close your mouth around the spoon once it has fully entered the mouth (and not before). Third, you must swallow the food that remains in your mouth...
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Veganism and Moral Intuitions Inspecting some ethical claims, in the hope you might revisit some of your own intuitions
24th Jun 2026
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Veganism and Moral Intuitions

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24th Jun 2026
Inspecting some ethical claims, in the hope you might revisit some of your own intuitions
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Lucky Lily Asian Brasserie (YVR Domestic Terminal) As much as YVR is lauded one of the best airports in North America and sometimes, the world, I...
yesterday
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Lucky Lily Asian Brasserie (YVR Domestic Terminal)

from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life

yesterday
As much as YVR is lauded one of the best airports in North America and sometimes, the world, I thought their food options could be better.  Well, that has been changing in the past 10 years and now we see spots like Bubble Waffle Cafe, Pajo's, Salmon n' Bannock and Sal Y Limon...
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Maximilian Mogg made-to-measure black tie: Review I recently had this tuxedo made by the German tailoring brand Maximilian Mogg, while Max was...
1st Jun 2026
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Maximilian Mogg made-to-measure black tie: Review

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1st Jun 2026
I recently had this tuxedo made by the German tailoring brand Maximilian Mogg, while Max was visiting London for the appointments he runs at Richard Gelding on North Audley Street.  I was interested in having something from Max both because ... > Read more
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Optimal Suffering If suffering makes us stronger, shouldn't we try to suffer more?
8th Nov 2023
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Optimal Suffering

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8th Nov 2023
If suffering makes us stronger, shouldn't we try to suffer more?
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Is friendship romantic? :)))
3rd Dec 2025
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Is friendship romantic?

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3rd Dec 2025
:)))
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Wendell Berry’s Nine Rules I pay tribute to this poet and gadfly, who left us yesterday at age 92, with an article from the...
1st Sep 2026
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Wendell Berry’s Nine Rules

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1st Sep 2026
I pay tribute to this poet and gadfly, who left us yesterday at age 92, with an article from the archive
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Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures On the downside of activity-based friendships
23rd Jun 2024
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Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures

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23rd Jun 2024
On the downside of activity-based friendships
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Stoicism and The Law of Attraction: The Ancient Truth About Manifestation and Magical Thinking “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...
4th Nov 2021
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Stoicism and The Law of Attraction: The Ancient Truth About Manifestation and Magical Thinking

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4th Nov 2021
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote. “Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” Does that mean Marcus Aurelius and the ancient Stoics believed in the Law of Attraction, as popularized by Rhonda Byrne? It’s...
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The Waters of Lethe Flow From Our Digital Streams The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 2
20th Mar 2025
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The Waters of Lethe Flow From Our Digital Streams

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20th Mar 2025
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 2
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Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023] Big, Big News!
15th Jun 2023
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Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023]

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

15th Jun 2023
Big, Big News!
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(Re)insurance Vendors, AI-native underwriters and incumbent platforms The (Re)insurance AI Landscape
a week ago
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(Re)insurance Vendors, AI-native underwriters and incumbent platforms

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a week ago
The (Re)insurance AI Landscape
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Keeping Silence Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
11th May 2024
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Keeping Silence

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11th May 2024
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
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Naniwa Okina なにわ 翁 Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka.  This Michelin Bib...
1st Dec 2025
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Naniwa Okina なにわ 翁

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1st Dec 2025
Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka.  This Michelin Bib Gourmand spot is small and cozy featuring handmade soba noodles.  It was a bit of a walk from the Kitahama Station, especially in the scorching heat (in July).  Glad their A/C held...
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Still (ab)using spreadsheets as a KB, for now? Forgive the Betteridge headline, but it’s because this is a personal thought process I’m still going...
1st Jan 2026
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Still (ab)using spreadsheets as a KB, for now?

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1st Jan 2026
Forgive the Betteridge headline, but it’s because this is a personal thought process I’m still going through myself. As opposed to a personal thought process I’m going through for someone else!? That doesn’t make sense. Welcome to 2026! The shop next door is playing a Carpenters...
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Regrets List / Things I Did Good List Noticing the patterns of your personal life-lessons
2nd Aug 2023
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Regrets List / Things I Did Good List

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2nd Aug 2023
Noticing the patterns of your personal life-lessons
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UPPERCASE lowercase Andinbetvveen On stylized titling: the expanding canvas of musical expression
12th Nov 2021
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UPPERCASE lowercase Andinbetvveen

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12th Nov 2021
On stylized titling: the expanding canvas of musical expression
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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...
4th Aug 2018
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Unchecked Depression Boxes

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Aug 2018
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...
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Real friends
4th Mar 2024
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Real friends

from Ryan Hoover's Writing [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Mar 2024
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Vote for Nobody! Nobody cares.
1st Nov 2024
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Vote for Nobody!

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Nov 2024
Nobody cares.
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A Prayer For The New Year God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I...
31st Dec 2021
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A Prayer For The New Year

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31st Dec 2021
God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time,enjoying one moment at a time;accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;taking, as Your Divine Incarnations...
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My body is not a temple My body is a machine.
6th Apr 2025
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My body is not a temple

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6th Apr 2025
My body is a machine.
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Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of...
19th May 2020
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Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars

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19th May 2020
Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of technology: Progress Studies for Young Scholars. Daily online content, plus a speaker series featuring Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Joel Mokyr, Deirdre McCloskey, and more....
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The Problem With Too Much Comfort The recurring advice for writing any good story: keep the interesting parts, remove everything else....
6th Jan 2022
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The Problem With Too Much Comfort

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Jan 2022
The recurring advice for writing any good story: keep the interesting parts, remove everything else. If you watch a good biopic, you wouldn’t want to know about their boring afternoon visit to the doctor unless it contributed to the screenplay of the movie.
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i am who i think you think i am on not being the best // season one finale
1st Feb 2024
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i am who i think you think i am

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1st Feb 2024
on not being the best // season one finale
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished It’s often the case that when we do good things for others, we open ourselves to new risks. A...
30th Aug 2023
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

from Naveen Arun's Blog [alt+shift+b] in life

30th Aug 2023
It’s often the case that when we do good things for others, we open ourselves to new risks. A student helps a classmate, only to get accused of cheating. A friend lends money, which strains the friendship. A driver stops their car for a pedestrian, then gets rear-ended. We do so...
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The Dying Art We All Depend On A history buff friend of mine said that the art of medieval fencing was lost completely. At some...
13th Jun 2025
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The Dying Art We All Depend On

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13th Jun 2025
A history buff friend of mine said that the art of medieval fencing was lost completely. At some point, the last person who really knew how to do it had died. There are old treatises that describe the art, and people have learned a lot from them, starting historical fencing clubs...
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Winters are awe
3rd Jul 2026
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Winters are awe

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3rd Jul 2026
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The antibody factory If antibodies were cheaper, they could prevent millions of deaths from rabies, malaria, and dengue.
1st Oct 2025
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The antibody factory

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1st Oct 2025
If antibodies were cheaper, they could prevent millions of deaths from rabies, malaria, and dengue.
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Mental Spacecraft: Two Contradictory Views from Space Fifty years after humanity’s first steps on the moon seems like a good excuse to imagine the view...
24th Jul 2019
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Mental Spacecraft: Two Contradictory Views from Space

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24th Jul 2019
Fifty years after humanity’s first steps on the moon seems like a good excuse to imagine the view from space. You are floating, weightless, taking in the beauty of Earth, a tiny blue marble dangling below. An umbilical cord tethers you to your spacecraft.
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The New Product Hunt iOS App (described in GIFs)
10th Oct 2020
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The New Product Hunt iOS App (described in GIFs)

from Ryan Hoover's Writing [alt+shift+b] in life

10th Oct 2020
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The North Shore, Part II A couple weeks after Olivia and I went to the north shore, Lilah decided she wanted to do a similar...
5th Nov 2025
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The North Shore, Part II

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Nov 2025
A couple weeks after Olivia and I went to the north shore, Lilah decided she wanted to do a similar trip. The weather had turned much colder by then, reminding me why we used to head south long before now. I dug out the heavy sleeping bags and we bundled up for what was likely...
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The Unlikely Connection Between Fiction and Travel Castles in the Sky #44
28th Dec 2023
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The Unlikely Connection Between Fiction and Travel

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

28th Dec 2023
Castles in the Sky #44
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the mind is a trap be careful what you convince yourself of
13th Feb 2025
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the mind is a trap

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13th Feb 2025
be careful what you convince yourself of
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In the Time of The Juncos Autumn comes in on the coattails of a storm, a cool wind chasing clouds. Humidity breaks, there's a...
8th Oct 2025
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In the Time of The Juncos

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8th Oct 2025
Autumn comes in on the coattails of a storm, a cool wind chasing clouds. Humidity breaks, there's a colder edge to mornings and evenings. Yellow and red leaves sprout in clusters, and a gradual panorama of color sweeps across the horizon of trees. It's a time of contrasts and...
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One Hundred Laps Reflections on repetition in the Flatirons
11th Mar 2026
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One Hundred Laps

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11th Mar 2026
Reflections on repetition in the Flatirons
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№ 78: Bloomstory Codex, Changing of Seasons, Unproductivity Is The New Productivity A brief update of the last months
12th Mar 2024
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№ 78: Bloomstory Codex, Changing of Seasons, Unproductivity Is The New Productivity

from Left To Write [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Mar 2024
A brief update of the last months
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Introducing Nutrify 1.2.3 Whole Food Streaks, Widgets, Quick Summaries and 41 New Foods.
4th Nov 2024
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Introducing Nutrify 1.2.3

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Nov 2024
Whole Food Streaks, Widgets, Quick Summaries and 41 New Foods.
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Mind the Exponential Gap Listen now (54 mins) | Laetitia@Work #42
28th Sep 2021
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Mind the Exponential Gap

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28th Sep 2021
Listen now (54 mins) | Laetitia@Work #42
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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...
1st Jun 2023
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Why Your Favorite Self-Help Book Sucks

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jun 2023
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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theres a snowstorm in nyc and im really thirsty can i eat snow from the sidewalk asking for a friend Last week, me and Julian helped 35 people come up with an idea, make something, and make their first...
25th Jan 2026
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theres a snowstorm in nyc and im really thirsty can i eat snow from the sidewalk asking for a friend

from Farza's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

25th Jan 2026
Last week, me and Julian helped 35 people come up with an idea, make something, and make their first $. All in 3-days.
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Thoughts on seed oil A friend has spent the last three years hounding me about seed oils. Every time I thought I was...
18th Apr 2024
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Thoughts on seed oil

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Apr 2024
A friend has spent the last three years hounding me about seed oils. Every time I thought I was safe, he’d wait a couple months and renew his attack: “When are you going to write about seed oils?” “Did you know that seed oils are why there’s so much {obesity, heart disease,...
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Join the Six in '26 Book Club: Read from Don Quixote to Dostoevsky in 12 months Read six classic novels as part of a group in 2026
10th Feb 2026
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Join the Six in '26 Book Club: Read from Don Quixote to Dostoevsky in 12 months

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

10th Feb 2026
Read six classic novels as part of a group in 2026
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Chelsea is not a metaphor. CITS #92 | May 22, 2025
22nd May 2025
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Chelsea is not a metaphor.

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

22nd May 2025
CITS #92 | May 22, 2025
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Leviathan's Law and the occupation of our lands [Plus audio version]
4th Nov 2025
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Leviathan's Law and the occupation of our lands

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Nov 2025
[Plus audio version]
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Links in Progress: Snakebites, Pig Hearts, and More A round up of the most important things happening in biotechnology and medicine
3rd Feb 2025
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Links in Progress: Snakebites, Pig Hearts, and More

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3rd Feb 2025
A round up of the most important things happening in biotechnology and medicine
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Greenfield Village It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan,...
4th Oct 2023
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Greenfield Village

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Oct 2023
It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan, go west. Whatever the case, we're eastbound again and when planning our route we ran across something called Greenfield Village. Greenfield Village is difficult to describe, but...
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being covid cautious is triggering for me but health is precious I was supposed to do a dental crown after I was finally done with my root canal in may, but as usual...
7th Sep 2025
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being covid cautious is triggering for me but health is precious

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Sep 2025
I was supposed to do a dental crown after I was finally done with my root canal in may, but as usual I procrastinated plus we travelled for a bit in july...
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The Social Media Mirage Once upon a time, the power of a strong social media following could make a career. It still can, of...
1st Mar 2025
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The Social Media Mirage

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Mar 2025
Once upon a time, the power of a strong social media following could make a career. It still can, of course, but to a much, much lesser extent. I won't bore you with a recycled narrative of the shitty algorithm effect, although relevant in this case. Suffice to say, a follow...
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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...
18th Jan 2021
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me n Krillin just grabbed starbucks

from Farza's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Jan 2021
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 :).
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Are You Entertained—Or Addicted? In David Foster Wallace’s classic novel, Infinite Jest, there's a movie that is so entertaining that...
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Are You Entertained—Or Addicted?

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Jul 2022
In David Foster Wallace’s classic novel, Infinite Jest, there's a movie that is so entertaining that anyone who views even a small portion of it will give up all desire to do anything else in life in order to keep watching. Throughout the book, characters who see it give up...
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the answer I must seek My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always...
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the answer I must seek

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Sep 2024
My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always scheming up some new creative project of hers. Being with her is an ongoing lesson and reminder...
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