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Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: beyond left and right The global industrial-financial complex has been doing its best for decades now to ensure there is...
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The global industrial-financial complex has been doing its best for decades now to ensure there is no real ideological opposition to its life-hating agenda.
The Honest Broker
8 Ways of Connecting Your Wi-Fi Can't Deliver They are the pillars of a happy life. So why are they under such fierce attack?
10 months ago
The Works in...
Links in Progress: rising incomes do not always mean fewer births And how having a baby can make you believe in the future
10 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
living life like a solo rpg player One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games,...
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One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games, partially because they trigger migraines and motion sickness for me, and partially because a combination...
The Ruffian
The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence Why Thinking In Pairs Is Powerful and What It Tells Us About AI
10 months ago
Jason Fried
The Teenage Engineering TP-7 I finally picked up a Teenage Engineering TP-7. I've been experimenting with dictating random ideas...
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I finally picked up a Teenage Engineering TP-7. I've been experimenting with dictating random ideas lately. And while the phone is typically more convenient, I wanted to have a separate recorder on my desk. The TP-7 is an absolutely charming piece of hardware. Reminds me of all...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Being a High Performer Is Lonely as Hell It's also the best feeling in the world
11 months ago
Stoic Simple
The Feather "A breathtakingly beautiful book that shows how even a tiny bit of virtue can overcome any...
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"A breathtakingly beautiful book that shows how even a tiny bit of virtue can overcome any darkness." —Dustin Brady, author of Superhero for a Day After falling from an angel's wing, a tiny feather drifts past the boundaries of Heaven and into the mortal realm below. No longer...
DYNOMIGHT
Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”....
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There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One of the examples given was: Buy audiobooks to read much more books, listen at 1.5-2x speed This led to the following thread (later removed): Aaa: A midwit in making Bbb: Audio...
Both Are True
The ONE Amazon Prime "Big Deal Days" (tf?) Deal they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT Read this asap before Bezos & Co delete it !!! Surely I'm in jail by now, please spread the word!!!
11 months ago
Jason Fried
Don't have a biggest customer On X, Dinesh Kherajani asked: "How should you handle a customer who has outgrown your B2B SaaS...
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On X, Dinesh Kherajani asked: "How should you handle a customer who has outgrown your B2B SaaS product? The customer has been using it for years, but has scaled up and no longer fits your ICP. This is one of your largest...
Luxagraf:...
Autumn Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit...
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Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit the road, packing away the paddle boards, washing the bus, and burning through the last of the firewood. Sometime around the middle of the month we say goodbye to friends and head...
The Honest Broker
Terry Gibbs Celebrates His 100th Birthday—but Why Isn't He a NEA Jazz Master? A newly-discovered recording from 1959 reminds us of this artist's greatness
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Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: October 2024 Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
11 months ago
Both Are True
All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS) writing is the new sex
11 months ago
Scarlet Ink
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.
11 months ago
The Ruffian
Introducing 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Free To Read (This Post, Not the Book)
11 months ago
The Honest Broker
How Many Visionary Artists Are Mentally Ill? A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in...
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The Ruffian
Unveiling 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Yes It's an Actual Book With a Cover and Everything
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journal – Winnie Lim
Paik Jong Won …is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of...
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…is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of branches mainly in korea with some splattered all over the world. I first knew of him...
The Ruffian
Why Britain's Elites Shun Highbrow Culture The Signal Has Flipped
11 months ago
Jason Fried
Appetites instead of estimates The problem with software estimates is that they're both entirely right and entirely wrong. Yes...
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The problem with software estimates is that they're both entirely right and entirely wrong. Yes there's a 3 week version of something. And a 6 week version. And a 4 month version. And a 12 month version. That's correct. Yet, you'll almost always be wrong whichever you pick....
Both Are True
The one thing everyone in this country has done at least once Five Things I've Learned About America
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DYNOMIGHT
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...
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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...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
FormFeelingFunction® Sometimes things need to end so we can create something new. Essentially, what's ending is...
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Sometimes things need to end so we can create something new. Essentially, what's ending is Minimalissimo, and what's beginning is a creative lab I’ve named FFF. I feel like I've done my part in curating beautiful minimalism on the web over the past 12+ years. Now, I’m ready to...
Atoms vs Bits
Spaced Repetition Through Newsletters Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, we occassionally re-issue a favorite...
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Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, we occassionally re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. If you'd like to share or comment on this post,
Daniel Bourke
Small sways in the breeze make you strong I watch the olive trees in my backyard dance in the wind. When they were small, they’d almost fall...
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I watch the olive trees in my backyard dance in the wind. When they were small, they’d almost fall over. But the post kept them up. Now they’re big enough to stand on their own. A breeze comes along and their branches move with it but
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
15 Years of Loving Curation In my previous post, I mentioned that Minimalissimo was coming to an end and that I'd be embarking...
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In my previous post, I mentioned that Minimalissimo was coming to an end and that I'd be embarking on a new adventure with FormFeelingFunction®. Well, I think it's worth explaining the site's journey, impact, and inevitable sunset. Because it has played a significant role in my...
Mind Mine
gossip steals your sovereignty talk is easy, action is hard
11 months ago
Charlie Becker
13 Lessons from 37 Years My Gift to You for my 37th Birthday
11 months ago
Passing Time
Aridity Incarnate The American West, Fiction, and Water
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Raptitude.com
Growth Means Choosing a Different Kind of Pain I never threw a party until I was in my late 30s. I was always afraid people wouldn’t show up, or,...
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I never threw a party until I was in my late 30s. I was always afraid people wouldn’t show up, or, even worse, that they would show up and quickly want to leave. It felt like this particular fate could not be risked, which meant party-throwing was off the table. Other people...
Both Are True
we're okay - a quick Asheville update and a list of places to donate
11 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
Avoiding the Prep Trap: A Key to Rapid Learning And why so much "rapid learning" is bullshit
11 months ago
The Honest Broker
How Do You Celebrate Truman Capote's 100th Birthday? Today is his centenary, but is Capote a hero or just an embarrassment?
11 months ago
Scarlet Ink
Why You Can't Teach Leadership — Experience vs. Instruction I'm slightly exaggerating, as I do think there are some very specific things we can teach. But the...
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I'm slightly exaggerating, as I do think there are some very specific things we can teach. But the majority of the leadership job is gained through the school of hard knocks.
Tech and Tea
Fall Delights A few things that have brought me joy lately during this time of transition
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journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes from busan I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
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I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
The Honest Broker
How Did Pop Culture Get So Gloomy? Audiences seek out darkness and dysfunction, but why?
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The Ruffian
How the World Failed Greta Thunberg The Perils of Praising Teenagers
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Jason Fried
No assistant No I don't have an assistant. No I don't have anyone (or AI) reading or answering my emails or posts...
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No I don't have an assistant. No I don't have anyone (or AI) reading or answering my emails or posts on my behalf. Yes, my email address is very public. Yes I get as many emails as you do, probably more. Yes I have time to get back to people who write me. Not instantly, but...
Both Are True
there's so much i want to tell you here i go
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Paul Cudenec
Video: The Corruption is Real and Sickening I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by...
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I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by Drs Mark and Sam Bailey in New Zealand, based on some of my recent writing.
The Honest Broker
My Secret Life as a Social Media Coach When people ask my advice on how to flourish online, I share these five rules
11 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
7 Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days 85,000 words and many caffeinated drinks later
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Scarlet Ink
10 Reader Questions About Career Politics, Investing, Job Hopping, and AI (among others) Answering some reader questions on various topics. I love questions!
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Luxagraf:...
Lemon Lyme Summer The sun rises as a thin band of orange squeezed between twin blue worlds of lake and cloud. The tips...
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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...
journal – Winnie Lim
why I refuse to learn drawing properly When some people want to learn to draw, they do it the “right” way. They take a drawing class, watch...
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When some people want to learn to draw, they do it the “right” way. They take a drawing class, watch youtube videos, or buy a book – starting from the basics. I...
The Honest Broker
Where Do Music Genres Come From? A new section from my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
11 months ago
The Ruffian
Is Culture Dying? And if it is, should we mourn it?
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