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This is all there is
Fresh starts are just another form of perfectionism
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My obsession with daily notes
I was just reading the subreddit for the Craft notes app and in the announcement thread for the public beta of tags someone said: Please please PLEASE: add the calendar sidebar to the main navigation in all screens not just on Daily Notes!! It's such a weird UX
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Respect
Mad respect for anyone who blogs for any length of time. Double it for those that can blog on a single subject.
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Chatting with AI
This morning I was chatting with Claude about LLM first principles, some of the issues involved, explored potential solutions, etc. It was a very interesting chat. And you know what? I didn’t get any “hot takes”, uninformed opinion masquerading as facts, plain-old hate, etc. It really was quite enjoyable.
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Why blogging matters
This article hit like an atom bomb this morning. I ran across it while reading a series of posts that the author, Jon Evans, wrote on his Substack newsletter a few years ago (long read but pretty interesting if you're interested at all in the weirdness of the
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The Case for Publicly Funded Media and Innovation
I had to chuckle when reading the comments to this story in the New York Times: “Conservatives Get the PBS and NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades” A reader wrote the comment: In response to a letter to my Congressman Chuck Edwards, supporting continued federal funding of CBP, I
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Jason Snell needs a history refresher
A trip down Faulty Memory Lane
stoicism
The idea of "good" in Stoicism
I recently restarted study of Stoicism by getting my feet wet again reading "The Daily Stoic" every day and jotting down thoughts on that day's entry. One thing that comes up a lot is the idea of "being a good person" or "doing
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Is ChatGPT *really* rotting anyone's brain?
Let's not jump to conclusions quite yet!
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A moment to breathe
Over the last several years, as my mother lost mobility and had a series of health problems, I’ve had to spend considerable amount of time and energy taking care of more and more things so she could maintain some semblance of independence in her house. Over that time her
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I guess honesty is too much to ask for
I’d love to take this off your hands. My phone number is xxx-xxx-xxxx. My name is Rick Nelson. It has historical remembrance to my life I can get it anytime in the next day or two. I’d love to get it put it back to use. This was
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Too many pokers in the fire
I’ve backed myself into a bit of a quandary. In my desire to keep as many of my mom’s things out of the landfill as possible I’ve listed things on Craigslist and OfferUp that weren’t already being donated. The problem is that now my headspace is