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Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: resistance and psyops In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
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In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2018.
bookbear express
relationship puzzles adviceposting
6 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
The first RCT for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism isn’t what we hoped GLP-1 drugs are a miracle for diabetes and obesity. There are rumors that they might also be a...
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GLP-1 drugs are a miracle for diabetes and obesity. There are rumors that they might also be a miracle for addiction to alcohol, drugs, nicotine, and gambling. That would be good. We like miracles. We just got the first good trial and—despite what you might have heard—it’s not...
The Honest Broker
The World's Largest Search Doesn't Want You to Search Why is Google abandoning its core mission?
6 months ago
The Intimate Mirror
Truth Beyond Reason Breaking Free from the Prison of Justification
6 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Ministry Of Silly Walks lift up your heels already
6 months ago
Both Are True
A running doc with my little thoughts you can interact with it and add stuff and have fun!!
6 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
Your 9-5 Isn’t Killing Your Dreams. Wasting Your 5-9 Is. Complaining does nothing. It's time to get even.
6 months ago
Charlie Becker
Who are the role models for the rest of us? Converted from a Note 12/9/25
6 months ago
Scarlet Ink
The Six Steps to Saying No — Why Being a Team Player is Not Necessarily Great Frequently, saying no is better than saying yes. Our teams can concentrate on the highest value work...
6 months ago
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: parasites in power In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
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In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2017.
Thu Le
Blog questions challenge I’m answering questions in the blog questions challenge!
6 months ago
Passing Time
Introducing: Slos This is not a joke.
6 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
widening the spectrum of future possibilities I used to really dislike washing dishes. I would leave them in the sink, and they would feel...
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I used to really dislike washing dishes. I would leave them in the sink, and they would feel overwhelming when I finally had to do them at the end of the day....
The Honest Broker
The Music Business is Healthy Again? Really? I express deep skepticism
6 months ago
The Ruffian
The End of Cheap Progressive Signalling And Why That Might Be a Good Thing For Progressive Causes
6 months ago
bookbear express
worldbuilding + Interview with someone who goes on *a lot* of dates
6 months ago
Both Are True
"we are perfect parents" An alphabet of grievances
6 months ago
The Honest Broker
How We Lost the Flow The flow state was our pathway to liberation—before it got taken over by profiteers
6 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
The Strange Fruits of Exploration And maybe a beach bar
6 months ago
Mind Mine
the mind is a trap be careful what you convince yourself of
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Isabel Unraveled
the mind is a trap be careful what you convince yourself of
6 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
No One Gives A F*ck About Websites Anymore It's painful to see website blogs die
6 months ago
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: against corporate dictatorship In the second part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
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In the second part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2016.
DYNOMIGHT
Do you need permission from the government to do independent research? Some of my favorite internet people sometimes organize little community experiments. Like, let’s eat...
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Some of my favorite internet people sometimes organize little community experiments. Like, let’s eat potatoes and see if we lose weight. Or, let’s try take some supplements and see if anxiety goes down. I’ve toyed with doing one myself, to see if theanine (a chemical in tea)...
The Ruffian
How the Bud Light Debacle Predicted America's Corporate Vibe Shift Lessons In Navigating The Culture War
6 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Interlinking Makes Communities You're only as strong as (some complicated function of) your weakest links
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Both Are True
why it's impossible to finish anything, especially the good things the effort paradox
6 months ago
The Intimate Mirror
Scaling Down the Cliff of Collapse Choosing Agency When Systems Fail
6 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
Write a Newsletter for 52 Weeks in a Row, and Watch It Change Your Life The big new newsletter opportunity no one saw coming
6 months ago
Scarlet Ink
Failure is Necessary for Achievement and Growth — Why Success is Dangerous for Learning You can only succeed if you are willing to fail. You can only learn if you are willing to be...
6 months ago
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: enemies of progress In the first part of a retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit on the Winter Oak...
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In the first part of a retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit on the Winter Oak site, I look back on its content in 2015, the year in which it was launched.
Thu Le
Between away and home And the paradox of travel.
6 months ago
The Intimate Mirror
The Power of Needlessness How Love Transforms Systems
6 months ago
The Honest Broker
How to Achieve Immortality Let's look at the options
6 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
blog questions challenge Though I’ve already done something similar for people & blogs, I thought it could be interesting to...
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Though I’ve already done something similar for people & blogs, I thought it could be interesting to answer similar questions in a different slice of time after being tagged by Naz Hamid...
The Ruffian
Banishing The Inner Critic How Madison Keys Learned To Care Less and Win More
6 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Zisglom I had a strange experience while going through all the back issues of The Acorn for my ten-year...
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I had a strange experience while going through all the back issues of The Acorn for my ten-year retrospective, to be serialised here very soon.
The Map is Mostly...
Love Grows The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.
6 months ago
Jason Fried
Governor Newsom: Please help Franklin fire victims I'm republishing this for a friend who doesn't have a reliable place to publish this online. It's a...
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I'm republishing this for a friend who doesn't have a reliable place to publish this online. It's a letter she wrote and sent to a number of newspapers. Her family was a victim of the recent Franklin wildfire, and unlike other recent fires, the Franklin fire wasn't included in...
The Honest Broker
John Coltrane's Love Is Still Supreme at Age 60 Today we're celebrating a very special album
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Both Are True
if you drink enough coffee you start peeing coffee this piece has nothing to do with coffee!!
6 months ago
Passing Time
American Hedonism What do Thomas Aquinas, Pope Gregory I, and Walker Robinson of Your Neighbors have in common?
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What do Thomas Aquinas, Pope Gregory I, and Walker Robinson of Your Neighbors have in common?
Jason Fried
What's still here? Be curious about what's new, sure. That's expected. But it's more interesting to be curious about...
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Be curious about what's new, sure. That's expected. But it's more interesting to be curious about what's old. 
What stood the test of time? What worked before and still works now? What survived through all the jabs that you assumed would knock it out, but didn't? That's worth...
Both Are True
when the youtube motivational videos stop working how watching Rudy at the gym sort of changed everything (allegedly)
6 months ago
Raptitude.com
What’s Taking Up Your Mental Bandwidth Right Now? Just as your eyeballs are, your mind is always pointed at something, and it matters what it is. If...
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Just as your eyeballs are, your mind is always pointed at something, and it matters what it is. If you spent most of your day preoccupied with thoughts about a past failed relationship, for example, that makes for a different kind of day than one in which you’re preoccupied with...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Burning All Your Bridges Is a Cheat Code to Success Let it all burn to the ground and smile.
6 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Starmer's regime declares war on nature All that talk by the world’s biggest polluters about going “green” and wanting to “save the planet”...
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All that talk by the world’s biggest polluters about going “green” and wanting to “save the planet” has always been a transparent fraud.
bookbear express
some thoughts on friendship + reading recs
6 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Car trouble Some time ago—I’m not sure when exactly—my car started rattling. It would only rattle: When the...
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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...