Andy Claremont
@andymci
Professional geek. Amateur dad. Surfing the web.
Andy Claremont
andymci.com
2026 should be the year that you spend more time doing what you want. The new year should be the moment we commit to dedicating more of our finite hours on the planet to things we genuinely, deeply enjoy doing – to the activities that seize our interest, and that make us feel vibrantly alive. This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn... See more
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliverburkeman • The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …
When you write about yourself solving a problem in vivid, present-tense detail, you’re not just daydreaming: you’re activating your prefrontal cortex and rewiring your reticular activating system, the part of your brain that determines what you notice in the world around you.
Magdalena Ponurska • The 20-Minute Writing Exercise That Neuroscientists Say Can Solve Your Hardest Problems
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!) as well as the value of connoisseurship and curation in a culture where unthinking automation has left us feeling drowned in a deluge of content.
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
well lol i finally got laid off...but on the bright side.......
There’s a point in your work/career/journey when you reach an escape velocity of sorts from your peers and the world around you. What you offer to others is just different enough that you become your own category of one: nothing but you will do. Not better, different.
kottke.org • Don’t Be the Best. Be the Only.
Make time for art or writing or music, or long-neglected friendships, for community activism, or exhilarating escapes into the wild
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliverburkeman • The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …
It’s notoriously easy to slip into the unconscious assumption that any such aliveness is for later: after you’ve sorted your life out; after the current busy phase has passed; after the headlines have stopped being quite so alarming. But the truth for finite humans is that this, right here, is real life.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliverburkeman • The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)
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