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# When to Fold 'Em
- URL: https://makoism.com/when-to-fold/
- Published: 2023-12-31T04:19:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-31T04:19:00.000Z
- Description: "Every gambler knows / That the secret to survivin' / Is knowin' what to throw away / And knowin' what to keep" - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
- Author: Steve Makofsky
- Tags: makoism, #newsletter-makoism, leadership, reading

## What's On My Mind Right Now

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FDinklage), 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuEfEv0OlsY).

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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?**](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rich-encounters/202312/is-your-inner-voice-a-voice)
- [**An Exhausting Year in (and Out of) the Office**](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/an-exhausting-year-in-and-out-of-the-office)
- [**So You Just Found Out Amazon Is Greedy**](https://joe-steel.com/2023-12-27-So-You-Just-Found-Out-Amazon-Is-Greedy.html)
- [**5 Things Introverts and Sensitive People Can Do When They Feel Emotionally Flooded**](https://introvertdear.com/news/5-things-introverts-and-sensitive-people-can-do-when-they-feel-emotionally-flooded/)
- [**Second Chances**](https://om.co/2023/12/28/second-chances/)
- [**Feeling is Human**](https://doc.searls.com/2023/12/18/feeling-is-human/)
- [**The Magic of a Good Opening**](https://www.priyaparker.com/art-of-gathering-newsletter/first-five-minutes)
- [**Just How Formulaic Are Hallmark and Lifetime Holiday Movies? We (Over)analyzed 424 of Them.**](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/23/upshot/hallmark-lifetime-christmas.html)
- [**Getting Tangled Up in Threads**](https://wedistribute.org/2023/12/tangled-up-threads/)
- [**A year in illustration, 2023 edition**](https://doctorow.medium.com/a-year-in-illustration-2023-edition-e212037eb401?source=rss-eba9888d741b------2)
- [**The Pragmatic Engineer in 2023**](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-in-2023)
- [**Three Insights to Help You Build Bridges Across Differences**](https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/three%5Finsights%5Fto%5Fhelp%5Fyou%5Fbuild%5Fbridges%5Facross%5Fdifferences)
- [**Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist**](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html)
- [**walk and talk**](https://sive.rs/wt)
- [**Qualities of Life**](https://erinkissane.com/qualities-of-life)
- [**Everything is Bullshit (EP.161)**](https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/david-pinsof-everything-is-bullshit-ep161/)
- [**The Truth About Remote Work & Team Dynamics**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxMArXwZjh4&si=4D0ShLw3GR8xz5xU)
- [**Massachusetts man’s deathbed confession rattles family after decades on the run: ‘It wasn't a weird dad joke’**](https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-mans-deathbed-confession-rattles-family-decades-run-wasnt-weird-dad-joke)
- [**Some DNA ancestry services akin to 'genetic astrology'**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21687013)
- [**Managing Up and Managing Down**](https://www.breakingpoint.tech/p/managing-up-and-managing-down)
- [**One a Month – Manu**](https://manuelmoreale.com/@/page/FzQB8gwtyZXZ2yq3)
- [**if writing changes me, let it change me for the better**](https://lili.bearblog.dev/if-writing-changes-me-let-it-change-me-for-the-better/)
- [**My Words When I Am Gone**](https://www.gr36.com/2023/12/06/my-words-when.html)
- [**Nostalgia is a curse in life and tech.**](https://om.co/2023/11/30/nostalgia-is-a-curse-in-life-and-tech/)
- [**The perfect drawing tool**](https://ralphammer.com/the-perfect-drawing-tool/)
- [**Neil Gaiman's Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet**](https://calnewport.com/neil-gaimans-radical-vision-for-the-future-of-the-internet/)
- [**He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None – The Markup**](https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/11/30/he-wanted-privacy-his-college-gave-him-none)
- [**Building Ask Paul**](https://paul.kinlan.me/building-ask-paul/)
- [**Digital clutter**](https://paulstamatiou.com/digital-clutter/)
- [**Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work**](https://allthingsdistributed.com/2023/11/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-colm-on-constant-work.html)
- [**Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data**](https://www.404media.co/google-researchers-attack-convinces-chatgpt-to-reveal-its-training-data/)
- [**Hurkle-durkle**](https://www.haggardhawks.com/post/hurkle-durkle)
- [**Stoicism in the Gioia Family**](https://www.honest-broker.com/p/stoicism-in-the-gioia-family)
- [**Getting The Right Things Done**](https://fewerbetterthings.substack.com/p/getting-the-right-things-done)
- [**Bruce Lee on Death and What It Takes to Be an Artist of Life**](https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/16/bruce-lee-death-artist-of-life/)
- [**Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die**](https://gkeenan.co/avgb/hot-take-its-okay-if-we-dont-consume-all-of-the-worlds-information-before-we-die)
- [**What punch cards teach us about AI risk**](https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/26/what-punch-cards-teach-us-about-ai-risk/)
- [**The Bond villain compliance strategy**](https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/bond-villain-compliance-strategy/)
- [**Keep The Talent Funnel Wide (Part 2)**](https://davidepstein.substack.com/p/keep-the-talent-funnel-wide-part)
- [**why i think slow and embrace asynchronous work**](https://mgx.me/why-i-think-slow-and-embrace-asynchronous-work/)
- [**This Is How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 8 Secrets**](http://bakadesuyo.com/2023/11/listening/?utm%5Fsource=rss&utm%5Fmedium=rss&utm%5Fcampaign=listening)
- [**The Future of My Computing**](https://pimoore.ca/2021/09/12/the-future-of.html)
- [**The Red Queen Fallacy**](https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-red-queen-fallacy)
- [**Befouling the Final Frontier**](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/magazine/commercial-satellites-space-junk.html)
- [**Doing Less, Extraordinarily Well**](https://medium.com/ellemeno/the-art-of-delayed-gratification-in-search-of-excellence-70dec9b4a760)
- [**There's a Strange Cardiovascular Response When People Listen to Classical Music Together**](https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-strange-cardiovascular-response-when-people-listen-to-classical-music-together)
- [**The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usual**](https://paulitaylor.com/2023/09/05/the-gravitational-pull-of-business-as-usual/)
- [**Narrative Awareness**](https://medium.com/@scotwheeler/narrative-awareness-240e50c75c4d)
- [**This Is How To Overcome Fear: 4 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree**](http://bakadesuyo.com/2023/10/overcome-fear/?utm%5Fsource=rss&utm%5Fmedium=rss&utm%5Fcampaign=overcome-fear)
- [**End of a Journalism Experiment**](https://newscollab.org/2023/10/27/end-of-a-journalism-experiment/)

## Recommended 🎸

Take some time off, **highly recommended**. :)

Be well. ✌🏻