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The Honest Broker
Tell Us About the Person Who Inspires You Most It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
a year ago
Jason Fried
Directional decisions In the course of building products, you’ll make a thousand common decisions, but only a handful of...
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In the course of building products, you’ll make a thousand common decisions, but only a handful of directional decisions. While a common decision may alter a specific feature, design, or implementation, a directional decision remaps the fundamental trajectory of the entire...
Ryan Hoover's...
How to make new friends as an adult
a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
Why doesn’t advice work? In ancient India, there was a long-running feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Duryodhana,...
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In ancient India, there was a long-running feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Duryodhana, leader of the Kauravas, planned a huge war to end things forever. Krishna warned that this would lead to the total destruction of both sides and made every effort to forge a...
The Honest Broker
How to Read Plato And other remarks on teaching yourself great books
a year ago
The Ruffian
Do You Wear the Mask or Does the Mask Wear you? Novak Djokovic, Boris Johnson, and the Art of Creating a Professional Persona
a year ago
Tech and Tea
Progress can be slow We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
TODAY'S THE DAY! This book is not what you think
a year ago
Both Are True
Love myself? Knowing what I know? A lunchtime meditation on whether 'being the best' is even a real thing
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
The Scariest Day of My Life What the hell am I supposed to do?
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
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...
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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...
The Ruffian
Congrats Keir, You Won, Now Change Prime Minister Starmer Needs To Be Very Different To Opposition Leader Starmer
a year ago
Mind Mine
camouflage reflections on fitting into many places
a year ago
The Honest Broker
He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star... But Ford Dabney kept making wrong bets at the wrong time
a year ago
RhysTranter.com
Rereading The Brothers Karamazov It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
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It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
Charlie Becker
Beyond Food and Travel: Remembering Anthony Bourdain I used to sit in my apartment, eating Ramen and watching Anthony Bourdain, wondering about all of...
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I used to sit in my apartment, eating Ramen and watching Anthony Bourdain, wondering about all of the things life and the world had to offer. It’s difficult to overstate the influence Anthony Bourdain has had on my worldview. For over a decade, whenever someone asked, “what do...
The Map is Mostly...
July 4, 2024 Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us...
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Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us always be grateful for it. And let us always remember that good things are created not when people decide they have claims against an institution or a society, but when they have...
DYNOMIGHT
Let’s stop counting centuries Here’s a sentence from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Enlightenment is conventionally placed...
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Here’s a sentence from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Enlightenment is conventionally placed in the last two-thirds of the 18th century, though it flowed out of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Reason in the 17th century and spilled into the heyday of classical...
The Honest Broker
How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult? Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
a year ago
Jason Fried
Introducing Writebook You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And...
a year ago
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a year ago
You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And individual blog posts on a number of other platforms. These are solved problems. But it's surprisingly challenging to publish books on the web in nice, cohesive, tight, easy-to-navigate...
Nat Eliason's...
My Masterclass on Better Storytelling 2 Years in 2 Hours
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Anti-Rivalrous Goods the rivalrousness s-curve
a year ago
The Ruffian
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden? Why It's Hard and What Will Happen
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars How to Stay Sane in a Mania
a year ago
Passing Time
Don't Tell Me This Town Ain't Got No Heart; Or, Sphere and Loathing Dead and Co and Authenticity at the Sphere
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
my experience on starting exercise from zero I don’t know if people know this, but I used to be extremely sedentary and I hated any form of...
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I don’t know if people know this, but I used to be extremely sedentary and I hated any form of physical activity. Only upon hindsight I realised it was probably related to...
The Ruffian
The Age of Centrist Heroes Is Over I Hope You Like Pizza
a year ago
RhysTranter.com
Visit to Oxford Oratory This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few...
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This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few quiet moments, I had an opportunity to pray at the Oxford Oratory on Woodstock Road
Jason Fried
Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse Failure is a word worth eliminating from your vocabulary. There’s no reason to think about things...
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a year ago
Failure is a word worth eliminating from your vocabulary. There’s no reason to think about things that didn’t work out as failures. Yet, it’s especially pervasive in entrepreneurial circles. It’s almost as if failure has been fetishized. Nearly worshipped as a right of passage, a...
Wait But Why
The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate Jeez The post The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
a year ago
Mind Mine
being in bloom don’t forget to smell the roses
a year ago
The Honest Broker
How Secret Practices of Magical Musicians Survived Into the Modern World A new installment of my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
a year ago
Raptitude.com
Feedback is What Makes Everything Work The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about...
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The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about five minutes, but the teller took so long that I started to experience time distortion. I knew it had been at least fifteen minutes, but perhaps it was much longer. Twenty-five...
DYNOMIGHT
Datasets that change the odds you exist 1. It’s October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis just happened, thankfully without apocalyptic nuclear...
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1. It’s October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis just happened, thankfully without apocalyptic nuclear war. But still: Apocalyptic nuclear war easily could have happened. Crises as serious as the Cuban missile crisis clearly aren’t that rare, since one just happened. You estimate...
Jason Fried
Software defaults One of my favorite things about designing software is designing the defaults. The defaults define...
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One of my favorite things about designing software is designing the defaults. The defaults define the experience for everyone out of the box. And, therefore, for most people in perpetuity. Convention over configuration rules the day. To me, everything it could possibly do is less...
Ryan Hoover's...
Why YourStack failed
a year ago
Both Are True
Ode to an Inside Joke (guest post) How an inside joke with Rachel Katz turned into a hot little orb of love
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study You'll wanna save this one
a year ago
The Honest Broker
How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon Here's a five point plan that makes a difference (and not just for music)
a year ago
Passing Time
Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures On the downside of activity-based friendships
a year ago
RhysTranter.com
Henri Nouwen on the Practice of the Presence of God In a November entry of The Genesee Diary, Henri Nouwen reflects on the writing and spirituality of...
a year ago
Jason Fried
Thoughts on the search for life Just listened to Lex Fridman and Sara Walker talk about the origins of life, the search for life,...
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Just listened to Lex Fridman and Sara Walker talk about the origins of life, the search for life, what is life, etc. It was a wonderfully refreshing, nourishing conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhTfyX9J34 It made me want to spill out some random thoughts on the...
Mind Mine
embrace the exhale beware of the constant-tension trap (pt. 2 to ‘slow down’)
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
what a physical notebook provokes I’ve been a digital-first person for as long as I can remember. Typing words on a keyboard onto a...
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I’ve been a digital-first person for as long as I can remember. Typing words on a keyboard onto a screen had always felt more intuitive than moving a pen with my hands....
The Ruffian
Birth Of the Nudge Economy Minutes of a momentous meeting in Napa Valley
a year ago
Both Are True
someone is impersonating me so i reached out to them going undercover to meet myself -- a video of our entire 30 minute long convo
a year ago
Ryan Hoover's...
Should do. Could do.
a year ago
Laetitia@Work
Why AI can make work painful: see customer service Laetitia@Work #71
a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
Obvious travel advice Mindset matters more than where you go. Who you go with matters more than where you go. After seeing...
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Mindset matters more than where you go. Who you go with matters more than where you go. After seeing each other for a few months, many new couples take a short trip, which often ends in an apocalyptic, relationship-destroying fight. My theory is that’s the trip working as...
Mind Mine
slow down what’s the rush?
a year ago