alex
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alex
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV
FOR THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
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Preserving Human Voices and Faces
Dear brothers and sisters,
Our faces and voices are unique, distinctive features of every person; they reveal a person’s own unrepeatable identity and are the defining elements of every encounter with others.
... See moreIt‘s all status games at some level. Posting, not posting — both are moves.
www.workingtheorys.com
We’ve turned the internet into a vending machine. Push a button, get the Coke. If it doesn’t spit it out fast enough, beat the living shit out of it until it gives you two cokes. Instead, rabbit holing retrains both your curiosity and your patience. It reminds you the internet is more like a labyrinth, and the labyrinth rewards wanderers.
✧ brooklyn 𓆏 • how to use the internet again: a curriculum
Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.
I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
Gurwindersubstack.com
Many of you have asked about my research process. Here, I’m sharing some of the best practices I’ve picked up over time on how to research just about anything.
I’ve tried to keep it as general as possible so it’s not limited to investment topics.
Hope it helps!
Polymath Investorsubstack.comThe content industry has stumbled into a coordination failure of brobdingnagian proportions. Everyone produces more content because everyone else produces more content, and the Nash equilibrium of this game is a world where infinite noise competes for zero attention.
We are, collectively, a grinding, screaming machine that converts human creativity... See more
We are, collectively, a grinding, screaming machine that converts human creativity... See more
open.substack.com
Babies are easy because when they are upset it is one of three easily verifiable things (hungry/tired/poopy).
Toddlers are hard because when they are upset it is because you disrupted some perceived esoteric order to the cosmos that is nearly inscrutable. Like “you can’t put the green crayon next to the purple crayon... See more
rachael 💫x.comFrom Tareq Ismail:
If you could ship a thousand new features tomorrow, each perfectly engineered and well designed, would you?
The answer is no—but not because you should ship less.
Your competitors won't slow down, and neither can you. The question is: how do you ship relentlessly without making your product worse?
Even shipping one new major feature
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