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Same word. Different places? Different meanings
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,939 posts.
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The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (2012)
A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.
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An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.
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The illusion of progress lights a fire
Psychologists have longed talked about ‘goal gradient’ which describes how we work harder to achieve a goal as we get closer to it. I just came across a fantastic study published in the…
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Preparing for missions in difficult places
Can I bring my emotional support dog?
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A Beginner's Guide to Houseplants
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs
Last August, I finished my Ph.D. with the help of a bunch of amazing people. I submitted my thesis, and on a bus in Turkey during my post-graduation vacation, I put together a list of practices and mindsets that I sometimes stuck to while working on my Ph.D. Over the last few months, I added some details, and you'll…
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Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library
Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them
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Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a tiny news archive
The best websites are home-cooked meals. Andrew’s Selkouutiset Archive was birthed after I realized there was no obvious way to fetch the previous articles of the “Easy Finnish” daily news broadcast. This annoyed me as a student of the language. “Here we have a stream”, I thought, “of high-quality, human-written…
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The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years
Epigenetic predictors of age, known as epigenetic clocks or biological age tests, have varying degrees of accuracy and precision. Elysium Health collaborated with Dr. Levine of Yale University to develop Index, a next-generation epigenetic clock with precision at the individual level.
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2019 in Review
A quick summary of the evolution of our company, our open-source work, interesting news and lessons in product design and engineering throughout 2019.
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Zettelkasten, linking your thinking, and Nick Milo's search for ground
Linked thinking and the many "tools for thought" apps that have been released over the past few years, have changed the discourse on how we take in and proce...
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Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone
Laniakea Books is a publishing house in London, England, which publishes public domain books only.
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Beautiful Pacific Crest Trail Journals
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How to Write with Style (1985)
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and…
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Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist (2022)
‘NOVELIST LECTURER VANISHES’ announced a headline in The Sheffield Telegraph on Wednesday, June 26, 1963. ‘What has happened to Kathleen Sully, the writer who should have arrived in Sheffield yesterday to lecture at the Sheffield Arts Festival?’ the reporter asked. Sully, then at the height of her career, had been…
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Seeking Inspiration?
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
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Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
We just had a huge shift from people eating out to eating in, and now a lot more people are baking, so we and a lot of people I know have had trouble finding grocery stores with flour in stock. The residential supply chain is struggling to keep up with demand. On the other hand, the commercial supply chain is…
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The Curse of Soldered RAM
The trend for soldered on RAM in modern laptops is truely evil especially in these current trying times of shortage induced high prices. I normally run 2 laptops, one for personal stuff and one for…
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New research highlights the damage caused by processed food
A landmark paper proves that obesity is not just energy in and out; the type of food matters. And while one study shows we’re eating more processed food, another reveals what can be gained if we clean up our act.
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The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey
How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.
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Sabotaged by Polish orthography
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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YouTube views are down (don't panic)
September 15 update: @YouTubeInsider confirmed that the issue is related to viewers who have adblockers enabled—YouTube's been in an arms race with ad blocking tools, and the fallout is a substantial cut in counted views for creators who have a large audience watching from desktop. Many YouTube content creators…
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I don't want to go to Chel-C
We are constantly reading of stories with one main theme where people turn to seemingly "simple" systems in order to manage complexity; except that these systems manage to produce complex problems, without having to acquire historical cruft, or suffering from any of the usual issues that produce non-essential…
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Attacked By Thugs (2004)
Warsaw has a river running down its middle, an unassuming and turpid ribbon of water with a stairstep concrete enbankment along both of its banks, where you can often find retirees fishing (only people on fixed incomes or those close to death would dare eat fish from the Vistula). In between the embankment and the…