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What's this! A quick end-of-year note. :)

As we exit the year, I'm declaring link bankruptcy. I've dumped all the other interesting links I couldn't get to write about this year below for your reading pleasure so I can start 2024 with my 'queue' empty.

Something in there may inspire you.

I want to leave you with one of the best motivational videos I've seen this year. From the 2012 Bennington College graduation, actor Peter Dinklage, who graduated from there, speaks about 'Failing Better':

Now I tell the story, because the world might say you are not allowed to yet. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please, don’t even bother asking, don’t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

What did Beckett say? 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.'

If you can, watch the whole thing here.

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Articles Worth Reading 🧠

50 or so random things I didn't get to summarizing this year:

• Is Your Inner Voice a Voice?
• An Exhausting Year in (and Out of) the Office
• So You Just Found Out Amazon Is Greedy
• 5 Things Introverts and Sensitive People Can Do When They Feel Emotionally Flooded
• Second Chances
• Feeling is Human
• The Magic of a Good Opening
• Just How Formulaic Are Hallmark and Lifetime Holiday Movies? We (Over)analyzed 424 of Them.
• Getting Tangled Up in Threads
• A year in illustration, 2023 edition
• The Pragmatic Engineer in 2023
• Three Insights to Help You Build Bridges Across Differences
• Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist
• walk and talk
• Qualities of Life
• Everything is Bullshit (EP.161)
• The Truth About Remote Work & Team Dynamics
• Massachusetts man’s deathbed confession rattles family after decades on the run: ‘It wasn't a weird dad joke’
• Some DNA ancestry services akin to 'genetic astrology'
• Managing Up and Managing Down
• One a Month – Manu
• if writing changes me, let it change me for the better
• My Words When I Am Gone
• Nostalgia is a curse in life and tech.
• The perfect drawing tool
• Neil Gaiman's Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet
• He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None – The Markup
• Building Ask Paul
• Digital clutter
• Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work
• Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
• Hurkle-durkle
• Stoicism in the Gioia Family
• Getting The Right Things Done
• Bruce Lee on Death and What It Takes to Be an Artist of Life
• Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die
• What punch cards teach us about AI risk
• The Bond villain compliance strategy
• Keep The Talent Funnel Wide (Part 2)
• why i think slow and embrace asynchronous work
• This Is How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 8 Secrets
• The Future of My Computing
• The Red Queen Fallacy
• Befouling the Final Frontier
• Doing Less, Extraordinarily Well
• There's a Strange Cardiovascular Response When People Listen to Classical Music Together
• The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usual
• Narrative Awareness
• This Is How To Overcome Fear: 4 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
• End of a Journalism Experiment

Recommended 🎸

Take some time off, highly recommended. :)

Be well. ✌🏻