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Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: The Power of Positive Intent One small but meaningful shift to make hard conversations a little bit easier
5 days ago
Rubenerd
Image loading times I apologise that the site has been a bit slow since it suddenly turned into a travel blog. My plan...
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I apologise that the site has been a bit slow since it suddenly turned into a travel blog. My plan was to roll out my poor man’s CDN before we left, but I ran out of time. It’s definitely not just a nginx GeoIP lookup that refers image requests to a different cloud instance...
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Nagoya for the first time Yesterday we took the Shinkansen fron Tōkyō to Nagoya, a city I’ve never been to before. Clara had...
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Yesterday we took the Shinkansen fron Tōkyō to Nagoya, a city I’ve never been to before. Clara had been for a brief stopover, but hadn’t seen much of it beyond its port. Much of yesterday’s post may have been spent extolling the virtues of high-speed trains before I even got to...
DYNOMIGHT
My more-hardcore theanine self-experiment Theanine is an amino acid that occurs naturally in tea. Many people take it as a supplement for...
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Theanine is an amino acid that occurs naturally in tea. Many people take it as a supplement for stress or anxiety. It’s mechanistically plausible, but the scientific literature hasn’t been able to find much of a benefit. So I ran a 16-month blinded self-experiment in the hopes of...
The Honest Broker
Hollywood Will Be a Ghost Town in Five Years Insiders worry that Hollywood is the next Detroit—but it's actually much worse than that
6 days ago
Passing Time
Slos 50k: Countdown Feel free to delete if not racing
6 days ago
Atoms vs Bits
Damn The River Imagine you didn't know what money was.
6 days ago
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Cameras, and Ninomae Ina’nis I’m typing this today as we travel from Tōkyō to Nagoya on the Shinkansen, the best form of...
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I’m typing this today as we travel from Tōkyō to Nagoya on the Shinkansen, the best form of transport in the world. It’s fast, quiet, convenient, smooth, spotless, punctual, and the booking system is even understandable after you’ve made a bunch of mistakes! The seats in the...
Laetitia@Work
Bureaucrats are our heroes now Laetitia@Work #80
6 days ago
bookbear express
present tense Housekeeping: ask me Dear Bear questions here. The matchmaking results will be out in the next...
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Housekeeping: ask me Dear Bear questions here. The matchmaking results will be out in the next couple of days :)
Both Are True
briefly, forever balloons, birthdays, and also, the infinite
a week ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
3 Hours of Creative ‘Flow’ Every Day Is All You Need to Change Your Life If you’re *not* using flow states you’re wasting your life.
a week ago
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Around Jinbōchō and Akihabara Yesterday was our first full day in Japan again! It was so much fun getting back into the routine of...
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Yesterday was our first full day in Japan again! It was so much fun getting back into the routine of konbinis, train station jingles, wanderings, and spontaneity. It really hits different to anywhere else in the world, a fact I’m sure you don’t find shocking. The urban landscape...
The Honest Broker
Today I'm Starting My 5th Year on Substack—But Have I Learned Anything? Thank you for joining me on this wild ride
a week ago
Scarlet Ink
13 Tech Career Misconceptions — Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier Misunderstandings about performance, promotions, influence, and leadership that most people only...
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Misunderstandings about performance, promotions, influence, and leadership that most people only realize late in their careers.
Atoms vs Bits
Hanging Upside Down And Right Side Up You'll do it, if it's for you
a week ago
Paul Cudenec
In search of the source A personal journey against the flow
a week ago
Farza's Newsletter
sunday night thinking about how kiwis got weird hairs on the outside wtf Hey all, quick and dirty newsletter for you.
a week ago
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Flying into Haneda Yesterday we flew into Haneda Airport in Tōkyō to start our Japan trip! Non-stop Japan Airlines...
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Yesterday we flew into Haneda Airport in Tōkyō to start our Japan trip! Non-stop Japan Airlines trips used to fly from Sydney to Narita, but this seems to have switched to Handea after COVID started. JAL remains one of my favourite airlines. It doesn’t have that premium feeling...
Isabel Unraveled
stay foolish unpacking the Fool archetype
a week ago
The Intimate Mirror
Sunday Update: Gratitude, Growth, and Friends A break from our usual programming...
a week ago
journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes and words from taichung Taichung was an easy one hour high speed rail ride from Taipei. Again I have to mention that being...
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Taichung was an easy one hour high speed rail ride from Taipei. Again I have to mention that being from a country that is 50km wide, the idea that one can take...
The Ruffian
How To Communicate The Health Risks of Drinking Without Being Really F*!*ing Annoying Plus a Very Juicy Rattle Bag
a week ago
Rubenerd
Heading out for long service leave I’m heading off for a long service leave trip. Tickets are booked, bags are packed, anxiety about...
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I’m heading off for a long service leave trip. Tickets are booked, bags are packed, anxiety about whether we’ve missed anything is once again running rampant. We’ve had to postpone this four times owing to factors outside our control, so we can’t believe it’s finally happening....
The Honest Broker
How I Learned About Great Literature from Comic Books Over the course of 169 issues, Classics Illustrated gave me a taste for mind-expanding reading that...
a week ago
Both Are True
TALK TO STRANGERS! WATCH MOVIES! MAKE WEIRD ART GOOD! SAME ART BORING! talking w Eliza McLamb about stealing from WiSpa, leaving LA, and reading what ppl say about you in...
a week ago
Rubenerd
Stefano Marinelli is expanding his blogging presence I cannot overstate what a gem Stefano Marinelli is to the BSD operating system community. He’s kind,...
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I cannot overstate what a gem Stefano Marinelli is to the BSD operating system community. He’s kind, clear headed, and curious. He operates several Mastodon instances from the delightfully-named BSD.cafe server, from which I follow a significant number of people, and we’ve DM’d a...
Rubenerd
The Firm’s photocopiers, by John Grisham I’ve been a massive John Grisham fan for years, but I never read his first book The Firm. I’ll save...
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I’ve been a massive John Grisham fan for years, but I never read his first book The Firm. I’ll save my review for a future post, but wow! I’m so glad I saw it in one of those Street Libraries and decided to give it a try. No spoilers, but in chapter 18 our protagonist Mitch is...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Obsession Beats Talent and Intelligence Every Time "The most dangerous people in the world are intelligent people who are unsuccessful."
a week ago
DYNOMIGHT
Links for April (1) Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi You probably heard that Colossal Biosciences recently reconstructed...
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(1) Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi You probably heard that Colossal Biosciences recently reconstructed the DNA of dire wolves and created live dire wolves, bringing them back from extinction. But have you heard that also they did no such thing and you’re a bunch of chumps? Jeremy...
Rubenerd
Postal voting in the 2025 Australian election The 2025 Australian Federal election will be taking place when Clara and I are outside our...
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The 2025 Australian Federal election will be taking place when Clara and I are outside our electorate, so we opted for a postal vote. This means no democracy sausage on polling day, but we’re still able to perform our civic duty. Well, that and the fact voting is comulspry in...
The Honest Broker
Who Are the Real Experts Now? Q&A on the people I trust—and why
a week ago
Both Are True
I felt more human after this conversation Isabel Cowles Murphy and I talk parenting and writing and and the “hideous and holy” aka babies with
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Atoms vs Bits
Natural Selection Everywhere Selection, selection everywhere
a week ago
Paul Cudenec
The Acorn 102 Here’s the latest Acorn bulletin, which I edit over on the Winter Oak site…
a week ago
Rubenerd
South Park got big-box retail mostly wrong I watched a lot of South Park as a kid growing up, because it’s what you did at the time. I think...
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I watched a lot of South Park as a kid growing up, because it’s what you did at the time. I think I’d cringe if I saw much of it today, but at the time it was side-splitting. For every dreadful episode, there was a Tugger and Russel Crowe. The stuff of legend. But they did get...
Rubenerd
Brolific R.L. Dane enquired about how one maintains a regular blogging habit, and counted my number of posts...
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R.L. Dane enquired about how one maintains a regular blogging habit, and counted my number of posts with a simple bash script. I wouldn’t say I have a specific recipe for a successful blog, though there are always a few points to keep in mind: Never write filler. People can tell...
Both Are True
why, ai, why? a response to your responses to my last piece on ai
a week ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
This is What Happens To Your Brain When You Start A Business How my daily habits transformed within 14 days of going full-time on my business
a week ago
Rubenerd
Over/under with Lazybear Your favourite bear and mine recently posed a series of topics to me, and asked me to evaluate if...
2 weeks ago
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Your favourite bear and mine recently posed a series of topics to me, and asked me to evaluate if they’re either underrated, or overrated. This immediately reminded me of the lyrics to that OK Go song, which is now almost a decade old. Upside down and inside out…! Anyway, to the...
Rubenerd
I’m on the Ye Olde Blogroll! Speaking of James, I saw he linked to blogroll.org: You are viewing a humanly curated list of 633...
2 weeks ago
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Speaking of James, I saw he linked to blogroll.org: You are viewing a humanly curated list of 633 fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever! And I’m on there! This made my morning. Whomever submitted me to that, thank you. Alas,...
Scarlet Ink
Heard of Design Patterns? How About Behavior Patterns. Recognize patterns in management to be able to solve issues, and deliver results.
2 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time? Or how we all became Clint Eastwood
2 weeks ago
Atoms vs Bits
Conversations As Towers In The Sky Up the ladder, beyond the roof
2 weeks ago
Paul Cudenec
Ignore the gaslighting - ZIM is real! The smears directed at those of us who expose and oppose ZIM (the zio-imperialist mafia) serve three...
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The smears directed at those of us who expose and oppose ZIM (the zio-imperialist mafia) serve three distinct purposes.
Rubenerd
Blog questions challenge: TV shows The imitable R.L. Dane tagged me in this blog post challenge, which I will not take sitting down....
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The imitable R.L. Dane tagged me in this blog post challenge, which I will not take sitting down. That’s a blatant lie, I’m 100% sitting down as I write this. I’m also drinking coffee, in case that was never obvious. What TV character from a beloved show do you wish you could be...
Rubenerd
Australian airline refunding overcharged passengers SBS News: Tens of thousands of Virgin Australia customers are in line for refunds after the airline...
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SBS News: Tens of thousands of Virgin Australia customers are in line for refunds after the airline found a system error that overcharged travellers for years. Some 61,000 customers will get refunds averaging $55 for the error, which occurred between April 2020 and March...
The Intimate Mirror
Sacred Generativity Masculine and Feminine Principles as Universal Creative Forces
2 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
How Many NY Times Journalists Does It Take to Write 500 Words? And other dismal stories from the culture business
2 weeks ago
The Map is Mostly...
Growing a Hornbeam Hedge What's involved and the cost
2 weeks ago
The Ruffian
How To Write a Book Or At Least, How I Wrote My Book
2 weeks ago
Castles in the Sky
We don't have time, we are time. | Friday Footnotes #4 Footnote #4 is based on a passage from 4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
2 weeks ago
bookbear express
Dear Bear: how do I get over someone I thought was perfect for me? + what do I do if my friend is... + matchmaking closes in two days
2 weeks ago
Both Are True
locker room talk all of us different, all of us same
2 weeks ago
Thu Le
Pen and paper The tactile joy of thinking with lines on paper.
2 weeks ago
Both Are True
Cops with Subs - a buddy comedy starring Mike Sowden and Alex Dobrenko we also talk knock knock jokes, asking for money, and dive deep into a past creative project of mine...
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we also talk knock knock jokes, asking for money, and dive deep into a past creative project of mine that I have NOT fully processed!!!
journal – Winnie Lim
taipei after 7 years The last time we’ve been to taiwan was in 2018, just a couple years fresh into our relationship. 7...
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The last time we’ve been to taiwan was in 2018, just a couple years fresh into our relationship. 7 years later we’re both radically different people with different interests: back then she...
The Honest Broker
I Offer Subversive Opinions Here are some highlights of my in-depth interview with Image Journal
2 weeks ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
Waking up at 5 AM Is Dumb. Personal Freedom Is Waking up Whenever You Want. Ignore the productivity gurus
2 weeks ago
Atoms vs Bits
Use AI for Slow-Solve-Fast-Check tasks just another human having thoughts about LLMs
2 weeks ago
Farza's Newsletter
just wiped my counter top with orange scented citric acid and now im fiending for orange juice wtf I made my first YouTube video in over a decade.
2 weeks ago
The Intimate Mirror
AI as a Mirror for Embodied Thinking How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Articulate Implicit Knowledge
2 weeks ago
The Intimate Mirror
Guide to Using AI for Embodied Thinking How to Develop Concepts Grounded in Felt Sense Using Artificial Intelligence
2 weeks ago
DYNOMIGHT
Paper Paper is good. Somehow, a blank page and a pen makes the universe open up before you. Why paper has...
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Paper is good. Somehow, a blank page and a pen makes the universe open up before you. Why paper has this unique power is a mystery to me, but I think we should all stop trying to resist this reality and just accept it. Also, the world needs way more mundane blogging. So let me...
Both Are True
Would you pay me $25 to attend one of these workshops??? Or: Russell Nohelty teaches me how to get the f out of my own way as a writer
2 weeks ago
Atoms vs Bits
Give The New York Subway Stations Different Names Please!
2 weeks ago
The Ruffian
James Marriott on Britain's Elites A Discussion of 'Born To Rule' by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
2 weeks ago
Paul Cudenec
The Big Plan and the Great Gaslighting Earlier this year I published an essay about “modernisation” in post-WW2 France which exposed how it...
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Earlier this year I published an essay about “modernisation” in post-WW2 France which exposed how it was part of a deliberate strategy of dispossession and control.
The Honest Broker
9 Rules for New Technology Wendell Berry's list from 1987 is more relevant than ever before
2 weeks ago
Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: April 2025 Book sales, draft progress, secret projects, and more!
2 weeks ago
Jason Fried
Doing what you think, not what you thought Whenever I talk about working in real-time, making decisions as you go, figuring things out now...
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Whenever I talk about working in real-time, making decisions as you go, figuring things out now rather than before, I get a question like this... "If you don't have a backlog, or deep sets of prioritized, ranked items, how do you decide what to do next?" My answer:  The same...
Both Are True
me, myself, and ai a writer's dilemma
2 weeks ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
I Met a Quiet Millionaire Who Operates a $2.5m Tiny Business While Working 2-3 Hours a Day This is bizarrely what he taught me
2 weeks ago
Both Are True
Debbie Weil with Alex Dobrenko (feeling sick but a trooper) on the existential cry-sis we share A recording from Alex Dobrenko` and Debbie Weil's live video
3 weeks ago
Both Are True
Olivia and Alex figure out all the big questions with ease and aplomb (respectfully) A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
3 weeks ago
Both Are True
How to turn off Substack Live notifications for Both Are True I Want YOU (to be in charge of what notifications you get)
3 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
40 Observations on Public Discourse What we have here is a failure to communicate
3 weeks ago
Raptitude.com
Doing More is Often Easier Last year I bought a strength training program from a Canadian bodybuilder named Jeff, and it kind...
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Last year I bought a strength training program from a Canadian bodybuilder named Jeff, and it kind of made me better at everything. The program was designed for people who don’t have much time to train – busy people cramming 35-minute workouts into lunch breaks. Because you only...
Scarlet Ink
Writing and Speaking Clearly and Concisely Communicating takes practice and skill. Learn the ingredients to high-quality communication.
3 weeks ago
Atoms vs Bits
Risk-of-Ruin Goods In 2018, the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting (or rather, legalized states to legalize...
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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...
Paul Cudenec
Leaving the "Left" behind I have never regarded myself as belonging to the “Left” or the “Right” – I think these labels have...
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I have never regarded myself as belonging to the “Left” or the “Right” – I think these labels have been manufactured and maintained in order to limit our individual thinking and to rule over us by division.
Passing Time
My body is not a temple My body is a machine.
3 weeks ago
The Intimate Mirror
The Choiceless Choice When Love Awakens Will
3 weeks ago
journal – Winnie Lim
44 I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my...
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I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my own writing, it feels like I am reading the writing of another person. Perhaps...
bookbear express
I didn't text you back because I was trying to find you a date + matchmaking penpal option for people who live outside SF/NY!
3 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
Netflix CEO Mocks Moviegoers: Theaters Are Dead! How fear and self-loathing took over Hollywood
3 weeks ago
The Ruffian
Nine Principles For Success In The Age of AI An Idiosyncratic Career Guide
3 weeks ago
Castles in the Sky
Sonder, Sobriety, and Abstractions | Friday Footnotes #3 Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reading and reflection meet real life.
3 weeks ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
Six Things I Had to Give Up to Make 6-Figures Online #3: Dumb systems build 6-figure online empires
3 weeks ago
Both Are True
date night in the time of parenting do you believe in love after kids?
3 weeks ago
Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: The Stories We Tell Ourselves How to reframe the stories that hold you back at work
3 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
How to Discover Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell This extraordinary narrative is now available again
3 weeks ago
Paul Cudenec
The toxic stench of industrial corruption Beneath the idyllic green rolling hills of a well-off rural area lurks the stench of mafia-dumped...
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Beneath the idyllic green rolling hills of a well-off rural area lurks the stench of mafia-dumped toxic waste, polluting the air, the water supply and the food chain, killing off the wildlife and giving cancer to the people who live there.
Mind Mine
it’s okay to want a beautiful life let yourself lust
3 weeks ago
Isabel Unraveled
it’s okay to want a beautiful life let yourself lust
3 weeks ago
Both Are True
HOW DO I BECOME A SUPERSTAR AND LIFE AS A SUBSTACK WHISPERER GROWTH GENIUS A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
3 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
Here's Why I'm Telling Young Musicians to See the Dylan Biopic And an update on transformative songs around the world
3 weeks ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Most Powerful Life Hacks I’ve Found Shortcuts to a life full of freedom, more money, more time, and a kickass network
3 weeks ago
The Intimate Mirror
Emptiness and Values Realism Beyond the False Dichotomy
4 weeks ago
Mind Mine
how good will you let it get? loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
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Isabel Unraveled
how good will you let it get? loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
4 weeks ago
Scarlet Ink
Why You Should Give Feedback — And How to Deliver It Without the Awkward Crying The why and how to write feedback for others.
4 weeks ago
bookbear express
life design + matchmaking is open :)
4 weeks ago
Paul Cudenec
Communism and industrial imperialism I have written before about how the “communist” revolution in the USSR was a scheme cooked up by the...
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I have written before about how the “communist” revolution in the USSR was a scheme cooked up by the global criminocrats to impose on the Russian people their long-term authoritarian-industrial agenda of dispossession and enslavement.
The Map is Mostly...
creatures of temperament It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:
4 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
What Happened to the Celebrities? Something has changed in the culture
4 weeks ago
The Intimate Mirror
Love's Inevitable Gravity The Sacred Archaeology of Desire
4 weeks ago
journal – Winnie Lim
ringfencing my self I remember reading somewhere that just few decades ago we lived in small communities, unconnected by...
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I remember reading somewhere that just few decades ago we lived in small communities, unconnected by the internet. We would only need to cope with the happenings of this small community, and...
The Ruffian
What 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About Boys Impressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary
a month ago
Raptitude.com
How to Start Doing the Things You Daydream About I forget who pointed this out, but Netflix has a subtle feature where it periodically tries to...
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I forget who pointed this out, but Netflix has a subtle feature where it periodically tries to inspire you to get off the couch and live the life you really want. Whenever an episode of the show you’re watching ends, and the next is queueing up, there’s a moment in which the...
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Dark Side of Making Money Online (That Very Few Are Qualified to Write About) Apparently, I helped create a genocide.
a month ago
bookbear express
matchmaking is open :)))
a month ago
Mind Mine
embracing my Wild Woman i’m a cheetah, not a house cat
a month ago
Isabel Unraveled
embracing my Wild Woman i’m a cheetah, not a house cat
a month ago
The Honest Broker
Two Robots Talk About Me Behind My Back And other updates on previous stories
a month ago
The Intimate Mirror
Buddhism in the Age of Metacrisis How Individual Creative Embodiment Shapes Dharma's Future
a month ago
Laetitia@Work
Make Work Seasonal Again Laetitia@Work #79
a month ago
DYNOMIGHT
Limits of smart Take me. Now take someone with the combined talents of Von Neumann, Archimedes, Ramanujan, and...
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Take me. Now take someone with the combined talents of Von Neumann, Archimedes, Ramanujan, and Mozart. Now take someone smarter again by the same margin and repeat that a few times. Say this Being is created and has an IQ of 300. Let’s also say it can think at 10,000× normal...
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Weight Loss In some sense, the 80/20 of weight loss is to take ozempic, though maybe that's less of an 80/20 and...
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In some sense, the 80/20 of weight loss is to take ozempic, though maybe that's less of an 80/20 and more of a 95/5. Still, suppose that you want to lose some weight but sans zempy – where does that leave you? I'm
Paul Cudenec
A grotesque spectacle of lies and abuse It may seem odd, at first sight, that someone who recently warned against taking political...
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It may seem odd, at first sight, that someone who recently warned against taking political “personalities” too seriously is now reviewing a book about the lives of the French presidential couple.
Both Are True
BETH SPENCER will draw my face also we will maybe do some improv, I haven’t told Beth about that yet... A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
a month ago
Jason Fried
Go do business Business isn’t something you learn in books. Or posts. Or threads. You can’t read your way to the...
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Business isn’t something you learn in books. Or posts. Or threads. You can’t read your way to the right hire. You can't consume enough content to produce a product. You have to do. You learn business by doing business. Hiring by hiring. Products by building them. We...
The Honest Broker
My 12 Favorite Existential Songs It's not a real genre—but should be
a month ago
bookbear express
a supposedly fun thing I'll probably do again book, blues, bliss
a month ago
Both Are True
art vs content vs whatever the hell gets you paid are we human, or are we content?
a month ago
Passing Time
A Certain Slant of Light Enhancing the sublimity of snow through art
a month ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
You Must Realize You’ve Spent 10 Years Creating 1% of What You Were Capable Of This should make you stand up and scream. What comes next is extraordinary.
a month ago
Both Are True
How to quit social media without quitting the internet Leaving the doomscroll behind, finding real community, and demanding answers about a neighbor’s...
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Leaving the doomscroll behind, finding real community, and demanding answers about a neighbor’s giant pig w/ Seth Werkheiser (Social Media Escape Club)
Nat Eliason's...
How to Outline and Plan a Novel What I've learned from the first few
a month ago
Scarlet Ink
RTO is a lie, 3rd party misinformation, the source of my anecdotes, and how (not) to make decisions.... Sometimes writing about one topic just isn't good enough.
a month ago
Atoms vs Bits
Voltaire on Vaccines In Voltaire's Letters on England, he writes up an interesting story on the pre-history of...
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In Voltaire's Letters on England, he writes up an interesting story on the pre-history of vaccination. (Bear in mind this is written in 1733, and I haven't checked the accuracy of his claims). It begins: It is whispered in Christian Europe that the English are mad
Paul Cudenec
The Global Gang Running Our World and Ruining Our Lives My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the...
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My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the material which formed the first of a series of compilations, Fascism rebranded: exposing the Great Reset, a selection of essays from 2018 to 2021.
The Honest Broker
More Entries from My Private Journal A few months ago, I shared private entries from my journal. People seemed to enjoy reading them—so...
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A few months ago, I shared private entries from my journal. People seemed to enjoy reading them—so I’m doing it again.
The Intimate Mirror
Valueception Recovering Our Capacity to Perceive Intrinsic Value
a month ago
The Ruffian
Nabeel Qureshi on Principles For Living: Part II Plus: The Official Playlist For 'John & Paul'
a month ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the art at our home It is just so easy to take things for granted, especially if they surround us every day and we’re so...
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It is just so easy to take things for granted, especially if they surround us every day and we’re so used to experiencing them. My partner started on an art journey shortly...
The Ruffian
Did John Lennon Think He Was Jesus? John's Messiah Complex
a month ago
Castles in the Sky
To Discard, To Preserve, To Bury, To Build | Friday Footnotes #2 Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reflection meets real life.
a month ago
bookbear express
How They Made It: Todd and Elaine of Dandelion Chocolate on work and marriage for all the people who fantasize about working with their spouse
a month ago
The Honest Broker
What's Happening to Students? Here's the latest news from the zombie wars
a month ago
Both Are True
sex stories all real from my life
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