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The Lost Art of Thank-You Notes
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
People who read widely and attentively—and then publish the results of their reading—are also arguably performing research as a leisure activity. Maria Popova, who started writing a blog in 2006—now called The Marginalian —which collects her reading across literature, philosophy, psychology, the sciences. Her blog feels like leisurely research, to ... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry
Matthew Ballredef.com
We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks
(a thread on why) https://t.co/ZNg3FHiGUD
The Societal Problem of Only Needing 1,000 True Fans to Be Successful Online
Sam Lessintheinformation.com
But the more fundamental need to take away something tangible from the experience of reading is one of the things driving the return of commonplace books – personal, curated collections of facts, insights, musings, quotes, and research originally invented in 19th century Europe as a way to deal with the information explosion of the Industrial Era.