Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
In 1920, New Orleans boasted six pumping stations, including the Melpomene. These allowed “the old swamps” to be drained and converted into new communities, like Lakeview and Gentilly. Today there are twenty-four stations, which together operate one hundred and twenty pumps. During a storm, rain is funneled into a Venice’s-worth of canals. Then
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
calling all Notes-heads who’d love to save and curate their fav notes (and substack essays) so they can look back at them, share them, etc:
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Alex Dobrenko`substack.comTake the Light Phone for example. The dumb phones trend might be making a comeback, but the realization that led to the Light Phone occurred somewhere in 2014, ironically in a Google incubator that sought to find ideas for new apps.
The $300 “dumb phone” wasn’t set to improve the smartphone as a form factor. Moreover, it didn’t follow the expected... See more
The $300 “dumb phone” wasn’t set to improve the smartphone as a form factor. Moreover, it didn’t follow the expected... See more
Itay Dreyfus • What’s the Future of AI Hardware?
There’s a line in the Oedipus Tyrannus which I translated, where Tiresias the prophet says “Damn, damn. How terrible it is to understand where understanding is useless.” Andrew: How terrible it is to have signal anxiety when the signal is useless?
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
As you use family trips and family dinner nights to facilitate your son discovering himself and his purpose, he will learn how to take what he learned under your care and adjust it to those stages of his life when he is under his own care. What will be common to each stage, though, is your gift of encouraging him to be a human being first, and
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