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Paul Cudenec
Vote for Nobody! Nobody cares.
10 months ago
Jason Fried
High and Low Problems are often described by their size. "Hey, that's a big problem". Or "Eh, that's just a...
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Problems are often described by their size. "Hey, that's a big problem". Or "Eh, that's just a little issue, no big deal." And if you do hear someone say “serious” you immediately think huge. It’s still about size. I sometimes still use those descriptors, but I'm trying to use...
The Honest Broker
What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.) I share updates on ten recent articles
10 months ago
Thu Le
Why I rebuilt this site The journey of building this site.
10 months ago
Both Are True
i interviewed a bunch of cool ppl and now it's a...print publication??! Whoa, Vol 1: Conversations to make you feel human
10 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
Take One Thing and Become Insanely Obsessed with It for 6 Months This is how it'll change your life
10 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Sloth was not the right answer Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what...
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Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what you’ve got here is a totally safe question. There are no “right” or “wrong” animals and no need to worry about any consequences. Let your heart soar! At school recently, I had seen...
Mind Mine
to actualize yourself, actualize your ideas* *to completion! this part is very important!!
10 months ago
Luxagraf:...
California We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to...
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We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to visit my parents, trading the last of fall for some warmth and extra sunshine at the beach. I am a stranger in my hometown. The California of my youth is gone. Everything paved...
The Ruffian
In (Partial) Defence of Jeff Bezos It's Weird That Newspapers Endorse Politicians
10 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Grenfell Tower: a chemicals cover-up This is a news report I wrote for the latest Acorn bulletin over on the Winter Oak site.
10 months ago
Both Are True
parenting as improv yes and yes and yes and
10 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
If You Want to Be a Millionaire, You Need to Be Nicheless Being nicheless is a higher state of consciousness
10 months ago
Scarlet Ink
3 Good Things and 3 Bad Things About Working at Amazon: From 12+ Years in Management Line manager to Senior Manager to Director. It was a great place to work, but I have a pretty...
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Line manager to Senior Manager to Director. It was a great place to work, but I have a pretty balanced view of what Amazon does well, and what it doesn't.
Paul Cudenec
Industrialism is a manifestation of Evil Nature, in the organic radical tradition, is regarded as the manifestation of Good.
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
How Virtual Reality Died Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess...
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Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess what they're doing next?
The Map is Mostly...
School is Not Enough Learning is a consequence of doing
10 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
one year of strength training Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had...
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Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had only 3 sessions with them, but due to a fundamental incompatibility – they had...
Tech and Tea
Reader Mailbag: Architect having a hard time letting go A reader writes in with a challenging situation on a new team and an architect who is having trouble...
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A reader writes in with a challenging situation on a new team and an architect who is having trouble getting out of the weeds.
The Ruffian
The Historian and the Culture Warrior Plus: Thoughts on Responses To the Kaba Verdict
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt She wrote this book in the 1950s, but it's frighteningly relevant right now
10 months ago
Raptitude.com
Two Ways to Change Your Momentum This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in...
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This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in the day makes the whole day work better. If I wake up and avoid screen time and loafing around, I get more and better work done, I make more sensible meal choices, I’m less needy and...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Set a Bar so High Average People Think You're a Psychopath “Your potential is determined by how much uncertainty you're willing to embrace”
10 months ago
Luxagraf:...
The End of the Road For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End...
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For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End of the Road. It was an incomplete idea, but it seems to me we are, culturally, at the end of a metaphor when it comes to The Road. I had the idea that you could trace a thread...
DYNOMIGHT
Please show lots of digits Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve...
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Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve brought you here today to ask a favor. Say you wrote something like this: There were 446 students tested. The left-handed students passed 5.67664% more often than right-handed...
Jason Fried
Version 1 is for you A few weeks ago I was at our company meetup in Montreal, on stage in a big room in front of...
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A few weeks ago I was at our company meetup in Montreal, on stage in a big room in front of everyone, sharing progress on two brand new products in development. We went one at a time. First Product 1 for a half hour, then Product 2. The lead designers for each product were...
Atoms vs Bits
Don't Meet Me In The Middle Against journey centerism
10 months ago
Both Are True
a bookstore, joan didion, and me turning toward the mystery and the do-it-yourself guide to fighting the big motherfuckin' sad
10 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
I Used to Be Impressed by People Who Had a Lot of Money — But Now I’m Impressed by People Who Have... Being told what to do is the adult daycare 99% of people live in.
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out? Is it really okay to take the money and run?
10 months ago
Scarlet Ink
Stories of Good and Bad Feedback Dave Received From His Managers A few anecdotal stories of times I received feedback from the senior leaders in my life
10 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: against the destructive will of Mammon It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely...
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It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely opposed to the modern world, to its infrastructure and to its thinking.
Laetitia@Work
What does psychological safety at work depend on? Laetitia@Work #75
10 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
endure: book notes and thoughts In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological...
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In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological or physical. This is a response to a combination of recent world events, the imminent...
The Ruffian
Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
10 months ago
The Map is Mostly...
Breadcrumbs One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.
10 months ago
Both Are True
You ask me anything / me ask you anything (yama/maya) #5 plus a look at everything I accomplished last year
10 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: soul, rhythm, magic and love As humankind shuffles ever closer to the jaws of the global death-machine, all the magic seems to...
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As humankind shuffles ever closer to the jaws of the global death-machine, all the magic seems to have gone out of our lives and our thinking.
Passing Time
Sometimes It's About the Destination Trying & failing to seek extrinsic motivation
10 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
If You Only Have 60 Minutes a Day to Build a One-Person Business, Do This Very, very dumb people are making $100K and even $1M with this approach
10 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly...
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Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly of arithmetic. It’s one of the first things we learn as children. So I think it’s weird that only a tiny percentage of people seem to know how to actually use arithmetic. Or maybe...
Wait But Why
Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch So heavy but so worth it The post Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch appeared first...
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So heavy but so worth it The post Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch appeared first on Wait But Why.
The Honest Broker
Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence? Am I crazy? Let's find out...
10 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Even Good People Make Teams Go Slower A simple model of a sad fact
10 months ago
Charlie Becker
Statistics are people, too. What we celebrate is what we value, and what we ignore is what we normalize.
10 months ago
Both Are True
bad hair day (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tbh) a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business I offer a forecast for 10 years in the future—and it's filled with good news (surprise!)
10 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
Don't Work Faster. Transition Faster. A secret to creative output from endurance sports
10 months ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Internet Will Pay You More for Your 9-5 Skills than an Employer Ever Will (Few Understand) Stop stealing from yourself
10 months ago
Tech and Tea
On the path to thriving In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even...
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In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even mean?