The Backlog
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In my last post, I mentioned that I would spend some time thinking about how to rework this space while I take a slight writing hiatus.
While that's in the works, I certainly didn't stop reading.
And of course, my "oh, that is interesting" list has overflowed.
Since a few folks reached out and said that they liked the 'brain dump' of random links .. so here you go - a blast of 50+ random things in my backlog that I found over the internet the last weeks.
Sorry, no commentary on it; just a random bag of joy.
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Here are a few articles and videos that resonated with me over the last week:
- None Pizza With Left Beef - 10 Years Later
- John Cleese on the Five Factors to Make Your Life More Creative
- AI Solopreneurship
- A Smartphone Is A Requirement
- A Weekend Without My iPhone
- Are You Afraid of the Darkness?: A Hopepunk Explainer
- Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin) - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
- When social media can’t be trusted
- The Corrosive Element in Our Lives
- Why Coffee Shops Are Teachers, If Only We'd Pay Attention
- Slow But Delightful Conversations
- The Story of Name Sans
- Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting
- Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
- How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot
- Pockets Full of History - Levi Strauss & Co
- ActivityPub, the SocialCG, and the social web
- Think Bigger
- Career Advice
- More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web
- Why side projects are essential for creatives—and employers should embrace them
- Making Hard Things Easy
- What They Don’t Tell You About Getting Old
- TWO: Weapons-Grade
- How we’ve enshittified the tech economy
- Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It
- Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
- Is Web3 bullshit?
- “Blown Away Guy”: The Most Iconic Music Image of All Time
- Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history
- The Seven Meetings You Hate
- The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usual
- 10 pieces of wisdom from Alan Watts
- It Will Give You Goosebumps - Alan Watts On The Eternal Now
- When Managers Take A Coach Approach Everyone Wins
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes To The Movies
- Three Myths and Four Truths About How to Get Happier
- The burnout curve
- The Simplicity Fetish
- The Math Behind The 5-Hour Rule: Why You Need To Learn 1 Hour Per Day Just To Stay Relevant
- Interoperability Will Save the Open Web
- Fear Of Missing Out is lethal when somebody invents a footgun
- Style is consistent constraint
- How do we fix the “Too Many Newsletters” problem?
- Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
- The big idea: why we need to learn to fail better
- Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
- Stop Climbing, Start Surfing
- 10 ways to soothe painful assholes.
- This Is How To Succeed Under Pressure: 4 Secrets From Astronauts
- Style vs substance
- Some tactics for writing in public
- connect the dots
- Mastering the Art of the Request
- If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans having to face watching reboots – for ever
- Oppenheimer Had a Signature Martini. Here’s How to Make It.
- Enabling Good Work Habits Through Reflective Goal-Setting
Be well. ✌🏻