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Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Hida Folk Village… eventually! I start this post about our second day in Takayama with a confession. If you’re a weeb and/or otaku,...
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I start this post about our second day in Takayama with a confession. If you’re a weeb and/or otaku, you’re likely familiar with convenience store bundle offers. In exchange for buying from a list of items in store, you can redeem a piece of anime merchandise. I’ve long thought...
Both Are True
wait no that last email wasn't supposed to get cut off !!! this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send...
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this one has the May schedule for the BATCAVE 🦇🦇 Hey also should teach a workshop in how to send emails good and how you definitely should send a follow up immediately after that is KEY
Isabel Unraveled
the two dogs in me words from a private reading i did in Toronto
4 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Trading stuff for money Examples are good. Let’s start with some examples: We all need kidneys, or at least one kidney....
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Examples are good. Let’s start with some examples: We all need kidneys, or at least one kidney. Donating a kidney sucks, but having zero working kidneys really sucks. Paying people for kidneys would increase the number available, but it seems gross to pay people for part of their...
The Honest Broker
How I Got Scammed A retraction and an apology to Pitchfork
4 months ago
bookbear express
grace discernment without judgment
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The Honest Broker
Now You Know the Rest of the Story... I share updates on recent articles
4 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Who Will Decide Whether The Guardians Need Some Guarding? Not me, surely
4 months ago
Both Are True
THE BATCAVE IS OPEN FOR BATNESS paying subscribers get monthly lives, cowrites, mini-workshops and more
4 months ago
The Honest Broker
I Get Into Dogfights on Social Media Did I win or lose? You can judge the results.
4 months ago
bookbear express
Dear Bear: do you feel doubts about your unconventional career path? + matchmaking results mostly out
4 months ago
Scarlet Ink
Inside a High-Severity Outage: A Late Night Sev-2 at Amazon A detailed narrative of how we communicated about, worked on, and resolved a technical mess we...
4 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Why That Hat? Investigated Chefs wear a chef's hat. Soldiers wear a beret. WHY?
4 months ago
The Honest Broker
Yacht Rock Sails Again! Is relaxed jazzy pop music coming back?
4 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
textures and scenes from tainan I love when I position my camera for a snap, the subject responds positively like this: My partner...
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I love when I position my camera for a snap, the subject responds positively like this: My partner calls Tainan the most aesthetic city for our trip. It is filled with old...
The Intimate Mirror
Predictive Processing and The Sacred Liberating Reality from Our Priors
4 months ago
The Ruffian
Experts: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them Douglas Murray Takes On Joe Rogan
4 months ago
Thu Le
Blind spots Finding my blind spots using AI.
4 months ago
The Honest Broker
How I Identify Heroes & Villains in the Music Business Or in publishing, movies, visual arts, and other creative idioms
4 months ago
Raptitude.com
How to Stop Eating Candy for Breakfast There’s a particular scene in an early episode of the Simpsons that I found especially relatable, as...
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There’s a particular scene in an early episode of the Simpsons that I found especially relatable, as a ten-year-old whose main interest was candy. Bart and Lisa wake up the morning after Halloween, so miserable from eating sweets that they can’t even look at their candy pile....
Unfiltered by Tim...
Here's Why 99% of People Stay Stuck for Their Whole Lives And how you can become the 1% who break free from society's chains
4 months ago
Both Are True
confessions of a recovering content creator started out at buzzfeed now we here - my convo w comedian and mind behind Create.Repeat, Zack Evans
4 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Raising Bread In the days before yeast, we had yeast
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DYNOMIGHT
Crémieux, j’accuse I don’t know how to internet, but I know you’re supposed to get into beefs. In the nearly five years...
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I don’t know how to internet, but I know you’re supposed to get into beefs. In the nearly five years this blog has existed, the closest I’ve come was once politely asking Slime Mold Time Mold, “Hello, would you like to have a beef?” They said, “That sounds great but we’re really...
Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: The Power of Positive Intent One small but meaningful shift to make hard conversations a little bit easier
4 months 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...
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
4 months ago
Passing Time
Slos 50k: Countdown Feel free to delete if not racing
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Luxagraf:...
Fields of the Mind [Baseball] is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else...
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[Baseball] is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. -- A....
Atoms vs Bits
Damn The River Imagine you didn't know what money was.
4 months 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
4 months 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
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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.
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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
4 months 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
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Paul Cudenec
In search of the source A personal journey against the flow
4 months 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.
4 months 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
4 months ago
The Intimate Mirror
Sunday Update: Gratitude, Growth, and Friends A break from our usual programming...
4 months 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
4 months 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...
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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...
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