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Self Censoring
Last month, I wrote a post that never got published. It was written out, formatted, edited and ready to go. As far as I could take it, but I hovered over the publish button and decided against it. There was nothing …
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Too much you, in f^!k you
Can I quote post, a quote post? Well, tough, I am. Matt Birchler talking about dunking on people being a sport: …a surefire way for you to generate engagement this week is to talk shit about… The first thing that comes …
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The Enjoyment Sponge
Ali Abdaal writing The Optimisation Paradox edition of his newsletter: There’s nothing wrong with optimising something for growth, and “treating it like a business”. But it comes with the trade-off that, usually, the …
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There Is No Hack
For far too many years of my life, I was seeking ideas to boost the things I could get done. At first, it was tips for better conversion rates, better management styles and more recently it’s pure productivity “getting …
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Pulled a healthy
There are some mornings you get up, feel so under the weather from illness that you can’t face the world. Not to mention, you shouldn’t be spreading your infliction around to the rest of the workforce — so you ring in …
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The Struggle
Whenever anyone asks me how I write so much, my default answer used to be because I read so much. The words from other people producing content I enjoyed, be it on the web or in a book, never failed to give my pause of …
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Visit More Blogs
Evan Sheehan in their post RSS?: I wonder what the alternative looks like. A tool that helps you remember the sites you like to visit so that you can browse them at your leisure, but that doesn’t create a commitment to …
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Turning Words Into Your Own
Alan Jacobs with an interesting note on plagiarism: …see something in a digital book or article that they want to use, copy the relevant text, and then paste it into Word with the intention of editing it later to in some …
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Fast Living
Leo Babauta saying Become Quiet So You Can Listen: …it’s a very human tendency to want to be busy, productive, filling every space with something useful or entertaining. I’m one of those suckers. Those people who accuse …
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Other App Stores
Sebastian de With, on Threads: This is apparently incomprehensible to some people on this website, but to many people it’s actually a good and beneficial feature that Apple doesn’t let you install software on your iPhone …
