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“It is not enough merely to switch off the lights which play upon the main and ordinary field of interest; a new field of interest must be illuminated.”

Looking

Reading

Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

Same as Ever: a guide to what never changes.

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This is a short one this week since I’ve been away in the beautiful American South (Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina) and it also looks like I’ll be spending the weekend in hospital ☹️.

Seeya 👋

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Reading DOC • Story of a buttonNavigating change and finding your click.Francesco PiniIn Search of Organic SoftwareSo over the last couple weeks, I’ve been talking to VCs and founders who have and haven’t taken VC to learn whether it makes sense for Kinopio. I don’t think it

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Reading The World Without UsA penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth …GoodreadsAlan WeismanBad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1)Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning …GoodreadsCarl Hiaasen Using A surprisingly fun "data set guesser", a quirky 'one time' website, lo-fi typeface and a

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Reading JamesA brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventure…GoodreadsPercival EverettAristotle — How to live a good life - Ralph Ammer2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life.Ralph Ammerralphammer Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion in different

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Looking Reading Learning By WritingAn outline of how I form detailed opinions on topics: by exploring hypotheses and writing about them, not by undirected reading.Cold TakesHolden KarnofskyUp and Down the Ladder of AbstractionEverything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processThe context is smarter than