Chad Aaron Hall
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Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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One thing this does is gives a false view of success. Most of what people share is what they want you to see. Skills are advertised, flaws are hidden. Wins are exaggerated, losses are downplayed. Doubt and anxiety are rarely shared on social media. Defeated soldiers and failed CEOs rarely sit for interviews.
Morgan Housel • How People Think
But if more roads meant more prosperity, surely we’d be feeling it by now. We have three times more roads per person than New York City. Are we three times more economically productive?
The Largest Mistake of Our Generation
Drawing Your Life: Learn to See, Record, and Appreciate Life's Small Joys by Michael Nobbs
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“Seeing the energy—grasping this new way of perceiving the physical world—grows through a kind of contagion. We don’t understand it, but when a person hangs out with others who see this energy, usually they begin to see it, too. So, go show it to someone else.”
James Redfield • The Celestine Prophecy
My reason is existential. By writing the things that pop into my head down into my notebook, I teach my brain that those ideas - my ideas - are worthy of being written down at all.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.
"Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
He went down to the firehouse and cast the first ballot of his life, for Donald Trump.
Farah Stockman • American Made
After stopping pills in 2013 and 2014, I continued learning about natural treatments. I read Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia (2010) by Natasha Campbell-McBride, a former neurosurgeon who reversed her son’s autism. I read Bugs, Brains, and Bowels (2013), an... See more
Tao Lin • The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
Fear of Music: The Greatest 261 Albums Since Punk and Disco by Garry Mulholland
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1. We all know that political polarization is on the rise in many nations: Members of the two main parties hate each other more this week than they did last week, and hated each other more last week than they did last year. A new U.S. study reveals an interesting additional detail: Independents increasingly hate both sides.