Chad Aaron Hall
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Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a
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I don't think there's anything wrong with treating productivity literature as leisure reading.
Eleanor Konik • 🌲 Takeaways on Efficiency, Passive Learning, & Optimization
Nintil is not written for an audience I carefully cultivate. If you like Nintil you are free enjoy it (no paywalls here) and if you don't you can read something else. Because of that, I don't have a pressure to keep writing blogposts all the time, or feel the urge to squeeze a post out of the random daily occurrence just to be able to push the... See more
nintil.com • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again by Elizabeth Hunt, Mangesh Hattikudur, Will Pearson
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Then I sit there and muse about what to write that day . Such moments are pure bliss . To tell the truth , I have never found writing painful . Neither ( thankfully ) have I ever found myself unable to write . What’s the point of writing , anyway , if you’re not enjoying it ? I can’t get my head around the idea of “the suffering writer . ”... See more
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks
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DHS has grown into a monster that is massively expensive, incredibly ineffective, and reliably destructive of basic civil liberties. It's time to abolish it and replace it with fewer, smaller, and more accountable agencies.
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• Always be radically honest, but use your honesty as a gift not as a weapon. Your honesty should benefit others.
Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices
If scenes begin to emerge these days, they don’t stay local for long as their digital reach goes far beyond the manor. They trend online and become bought into or appropriated by the masses and diluted designed by committee — a fragment of what it once was. The gestation period is cut short and all before the scene has really reached its cultural... See more