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The American Scholar
Up Close The post Up Close appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Msty The easiest way to use local and online AI models. Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
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Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Phosphor Icons Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations β€” whatever, really. Visit...
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Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations β€” whatever, really. Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Type of Feeling Type Foundry Type of Feeling is a type foundry specializing in creating bespoke typefaces for brands. We offer a...
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Type of Feeling is a type foundry specializing in creating bespoke typefaces for brands. We offer a select retail collection and custom typography services that are inspired by a range of feelings. Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Departure Mono Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe. Visit original link β†’ or View...
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Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe. Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Elysian Collective
Writing Prompt: Fix Capitalism By September 30th.
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The American Scholar
Three Poems The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The American Scholar
Three Poems The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
The American Scholar
A Ray of Sunshine The post A Ray of Sunshine appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
The Marginalian
How to Miss Loved Ones Better: The Psychology of Waiting and Withstanding Absence On "the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person...
a year ago
Elysian Collective
Hint #3 I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
a year ago
The American Scholar
β€œThe Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley Poems read aloud, beautifully The post β€œThe Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley appeared...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post β€œThe Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley appeared first on The American Scholar.
Wuthering...
You drool from it. You are happy. - Louis-Ferdinand CΓ©line’s Voyage au bout de la nuit Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand CΓ©line’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English...
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Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand CΓ©line’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English as Journey to the End of Night.Β  That β€œend of night” is death.Β  The existence of death makes everything hateful and nullifies the value of anything else.Β  I gotta say that the...
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
✏️ Bookmark to Bear Recently, I discovered that the creator of Pinboard posted transphobic views from that account on...
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Recently, I discovered that the creator of Pinboard posted transphobic views from that account on (RIP) Twitter. This is disappointing, and a little digging revealed that it wasn't his first time espousing such views. I don't have time nor tolerance for this. I swiftly exported...
The Marginalian
You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective "The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves."
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Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Meet the San Francisco techie using AI to wage war against health insurance denials With the slogan β€˜Make your health insurance company cry too,’ Karau’s site makes filing appeals...
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With the slogan β€˜Make your health insurance company cry too,’ Karau’s site makes filing appeals faster and easier. A recent study found that Affordable Care Act patients appeal only about 0.1% of rejected claims, and she hopes her platform will encourage more people to fight...
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Piccalilli Front-end education for the real world. Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
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Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— The Myth of β€œDo What You Love” The most striking point, to me, from Tokumitsu’s book is how easily the myth of ’do what you love’...
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The most striking point, to me, from Tokumitsu’s book is how easily the myth of ’do what you love’ cracks when you press on it. The underlying message of such a myth, she writes, is that β€˜each individual’s specialness will guide him or her to work that he or she enjoys and that...
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— No one’s ready for this An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A...
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An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds to create each of these images with the Reimagine tool in the Pixel 9’s Magic Editor. They are crisp. They are in full...
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Smart Quotes for Smart People Good typography uses smart quotes, not dumb quotes. β€” Jason Santa Maria Visit original link β†’ or...
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Good typography uses smart quotes, not dumb quotes. β€” Jason Santa Maria Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— What Listening Does β€” An Untaught Life Skill Simply put, listening is hard; it’s work. Our minds, much like our bodies are rarely still or at...
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Simply put, listening is hard; it’s work. Our minds, much like our bodies are rarely still or at ease β€” a condition that leads to listening poorly, which is one step away from equally poor thinking and decision making. β€” Scott Boms Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
The American Scholar
A Rebel to Remember Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner The post A Rebel...
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Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner The post A Rebel to Remember appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries... "At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a...
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"At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution."
The American Scholar
Riding With Mr. Washington How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr....
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How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
Escaping Flatland
Pseudonyms lets you practice agency I don’t think I would have become a writer if it wasn’t for the internet forums of the early 2000s.
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Elysian Collective
Further reading on employee ownership My notes from the margins of my research.
a year ago
The American Scholar
Parque de la MΓΊsica The post Parque de la MΓΊsica appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— My Mom Taught Me But really, my mom loved to shop and I’ve inherited that skill. I’ll call it a skill because Mom...
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But really, my mom loved to shop and I’ve inherited that skill. I’ll call it a skill because Mom knew quality. She loved things made by hand. By real people. Things that were made well and lasted. β€” Dan Cederholm Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Is this the slow decline of the Apple 'cult'? Meanwhile, I drive a Kia, I like Kia, and I’ll probably default to looking at a Kia the next time...
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Meanwhile, I drive a Kia, I like Kia, and I’ll probably default to looking at a Kia the next time I’m in the market for a car, but I don’t know anything at all about the company’s executives and I don’t think about their product line beyond my own personal car. I’m certainly not...
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Costco in CancΓΊn So here I am, in Cancun, on an all-inclusive vacation with my family through Costco Travel, and it...
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So here I am, in Cancun, on an all-inclusive vacation with my family through Costco Travel, and it feels like the world of the wholesale warehouse has somehow been extended down the East Coast to the YucatΓ‘n peninsula, all the way to the poor woman in a white polo with the...
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Atlas of Type Atlas of Type is a directory of contemporary independent type design. Visit original link β†’ or View...
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Atlas of Type is a directory of contemporary independent type design. Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Filters Our guard is up. Our filters are activated. Our default mode is suspicion. β€” Jeremy Keith Visit...
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Our guard is up. Our filters are activated. Our default mode is suspicion. β€” Jeremy Keith Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Being Hired to Care One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make as they start to dip their toes into advising is...
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One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make as they start to dip their toes into advising is try to anchor their work to specific deliverables. Doing this is bad for a number of reasons, but the primary one is that when you’re being brought on as an advisor, you’re not...
Elysian Collective
Hint #2 I'm publishing a new print collection in two weeks.
a year ago
The American Scholar
β€œI Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad Poems read aloud, beautifully The post β€œI Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad appeared...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post β€œI Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship "A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet...
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"A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us."
The American Scholar
Paolo Arao Acts of devotion The post Paolo Arao appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
Wuthering...
Jeremy Denk plays Charles Ives and Blind Tom Wiggins - a pleasing conjunction of Wuthering... More Massachusetts semi-literay adventures. Last weekend I was at Tanglewood in Lenox,...
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More Massachusetts semi-literay adventures. Last weekend I was at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, enjoying Jeremy Denk’s performance of insurance executive Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata (c. 1913).Β  It was a pleasing congruence of Wuthering Expectations themes.Β  I have nothing...
ribbonfarm
Truth-Seeking Modes Been on a Venn diagram kick lately, since being primed to think in Venns by Harris campaign. This...
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Been on a Venn diagram kick lately, since being primed to think in Venns by Harris campaign. This one summarizes an idea I’ve long been noodling on: The healthiest way to relate to a truth-seeking impulse is as an infinite game, where the goal is to continue playing, not arrive...
The Marginalian
Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks Among the great salvations of my childhood were the rocks and minerals lining the bookshelves of our...
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Among the great salvations of my childhood were the rocks and minerals lining the bookshelves of our next door neighbor β€” a geologist working for the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water. I spent long hours casting amethyst refractions on the ceiling, carving words into...
The Marginalian
The Art of Withstanding Abandonment: The Patience of the Penguin and How Evolution Invented Faith β€œLet us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other...
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β€œLet us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated,” Simone Weil wrote in her soulful meditation on the paradox of closeness and separation. To be separated from a loved one β€” in space or in silence, by choice or...
The Marginalian
We Go to the Park: A Soulful Illustrated Meditation on Our Search for Meaning "Sometimes it feels as if all of life is made up of longing."
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ribbonfarm
Intellectual Menopause I ran across the alarming phrase intellectual menopause a few months ago in John Gall’s...
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I ran across the alarming phrase intellectual menopause a few months ago in John Gall’s Systemantics, and it naturally stuck in my brain given I’m pushing 50 and getting predictably angsty about it. The phrase conjures up visions of a phenomenon much more profound and unfunny...
ben-mini
Commoditize Your Complements To the man who coined the phrase, β€œnothing in life is free”… have you been on GitHub...
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To the man who coined the phrase, β€œnothing in life is free”… have you been on GitHub lately? Open-source is software that anyone can freely view, use, modify, and share because its code is publicly available on sites like Github and Huggingface. My last coding project alone was...
Elysian Collective
Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
a year ago
The American Scholar
Nights at the Opera Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music The post...
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Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music The post Nights at the Opera appeared first on The American Scholar.
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— Turning the Tide: Can Kamala Harris Flip Texas Blue? Let me be clear: Texas will be blue. It’s inevitable. The only question is when? And how do we get...
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Let me be clear: Texas will be blue. It’s inevitable. The only question is when? And how do we get there? Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— WebGlossary.info As per the official description, β€œthe glossary covers the major standards and concepts of the Web,...
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As per the official description, β€œthe glossary covers the major standards and concepts of the Web, beginning with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, security, performance, code quality and testing, internationalization, localization, frameworks and editors and tooling. It then...
Naz Hamid β€” Journal...
πŸ”— archives.design A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives. Visit...
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A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives. Visit original link β†’ or View on nazhamid.com β†’
The American Scholar
The Challenge The post The Challenge appeared first on The American Scholar.
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