Is This Real Life?

The “I have taste” starter pack.

The number of people reading a post or following an account is not a useful indicator of whether or not the ideas within are made up or not.

The Weekly World News version of the future

Maud Newton (@maudnewton.bsky.social)

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The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

I’d like to thank the handymen and women of YouTube for uploading helpful videos like 12 years ago before it became impossible to find any information on the internet.

My Internet: Liz Franczak

Amen

Paul Venuto • feed updates

From Adam Grant’s book, Think Again.

the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (which in turn massively opens up what can happen, because you can just claim anything is fake and enough people will believe your or be unwilling or unable to sort out reality anyway) — this can also

SWL Week in Review

Bits of Sam Lessin’s latest email newsletter haven’t left me since I read it. I think you sign up on his website. Sorry, he doesn’t seem to have archives on the web anywhere.