Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Jefferson is credited as stating: “North and South will hang together if they have you to hang on.”
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Post-it notes are so powerful because they have a spatial relationship to their context.
Julian Lehr • A Meta-Layer for Notes
“To me, the comic is the guy who says ‘Wait a minute’ as the consensus forms,” Hicks told the New Yorker in 1993. “He’s the antithesis of the mob mentality.”
Dorian Lynskey • Why comedians stopped being funny
When I finish a book, I put it back on the shelf for a week or two. After a week or two, when I have a block of time, I grab the book and a stack of 4×6 notecards. The reason to wait a week or two? Time is a great filter/editor. Even with a really good book—one where I fold over every other page—I might only make 5-10 notecards.
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
Early Work 1970-1979 by Patti Smith
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satisfycing
Making a choice that isn’t the best per se but is good enough.
How much will the decision alter your overall happiness?
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
amazon.com
When you realize that you – the good, noble, well-meaning, even-tempered, fact-driven person that you are – have views of how the world works that are sure to be incomplete if not completely wrong, you should have empathy for others whose deluded beliefs are obvious to you.