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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
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The great enemy of writing isn’t your lack of talent, it’s being interrupted by other people. 👀 Looking 📚 Reading The TreesWhen a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau o…GoodreadsPercival EverettErasureThelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to def…GoodreadsPercival Everett 💭 Thinking Once you are feeling attacked or
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"The best way to invent the future is to tinker in the present" Reading Alchemy Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make …’A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everyth…GoodreadsRory Sutherland Sword of Kaigen The Sword of KaigenA mother struggling to repress her violent past,
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"I don't say no because I'm so busy. I say no because I don't want to be busy." Looking Reading Extremely Hardcore Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter“Zoë Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhap…GoodreadsZoë Schiffer F*ck
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“Writing is a technology that restructures thought.” Looking Reading The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You …The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in a…GoodreadsAlex Soojung-Kim PangWhat Figma AI means for designAnd why it doesn’t really matterDesigning with AIMia Blume Using Tried to use AI
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding Looking Thinking Excerpts from reading this week. “Algorithms are limiting the future to the past” "In my opinion, career transitions and promotions are not the responsibility of a manager." "
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If there is no sacrifice there is no discipline, and if there is no discipline there is no progress. Looking Using Curation of CurationsNetflix, But for Design & Entrepreneurship. Dive into a world of design with handpicked podcasts, videos, blogs, and much more. Reading I finally finished The Will of
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"When someone submits a bug report about some jank, sometimes it’s easy to classify it as a small issue. Then I run into it myself, realize that it really affects the experience, and go fix it right away. Felt pain is way more salient than communicated pain."
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"This isn’t the end of software, but it is the beginning of a new software era. And I like the media industry analogy, but it’s an evolution, not a death." 🔥 Looking 🛠️ Using FreeForm 📖 Reading The Will of the Many 🎧 On Repeat After switching music services and
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"Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at." Looking Using Gentler Streak Reading I enjoyed these optimistic articles about the future of software creation: The Rise of the Software CreatorIn the age of AI, software creators, like content creators,