Felix Salmon
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
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Mass shootings are a relatively small share of American gun deaths compared to other causes.
Mass shootings are a relatively small phenomenon even by the standard of American gun deaths.
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From one piece Nota bene: Mass shootings 3 beliefs · felix.substack.com
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Media coverage of mass violence functions as a socially acceptable outlet for anti-Trump sentiment.Their words
the media reaction to mass violence is in reality a sublimated and socially acceptable reaction to Trump.
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The more coverage that mass shootings receive, the more scared the country becomes.
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Mass shootings are a relatively small share of American gun deaths compared to other causes.Their words
Mass shootings are a relatively small phenomenon even by the standard of American gun deaths.
19 October 2018
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Jarvis standing deskTheir words
My best big hardware purchase was undoubtedly my Jarvis standing desk, which singlehandely cured me of a really nasty pain across the back of my shoulders.
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
Bose QuietComfort 35Their words
including my electric toothbrush and my Bose QuietComfort 35 cordless headphones. (I'm not a huge fan of those, either, they're a bit too bulky, I don't like the way they keep on talking to me about what they've connected to or disconnected from, and they tend to press on the arms of my eyeglasses.)
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iPad mini 2Their words
I also have a black AT&T 128GB iPad mini 2, which is a clunky horrible thing and slow as molasses.
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T-MobileTheir words
T-Mobile doesn't come close to having the best coverage, but once you've experienced the wonders of free international roaming, you'll never use any other carrier.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Withings ActivitéTheir words
I love anything that doesn't come with battery anxiety, like, well, my Masahiro Maruyama eyeglasses, or my original Withings Activité watch, which is waterproof, so I almost never take it off.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Eames Aluminum Group lounge chairTheir words
I'm always promising myself that I should read more books, and I have the perfect device for doing so: an Eames Aluminum Group lounge chair with ottoman.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Artemide TolomeoTheir words
I've put a little circular side table next to it which is perfect for a glass of wine or whisky, alongside an Artemide Tolomeo floor lamp; it's my own little corner of modernist bliss.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
1PasswordTheir words
There are very few pieces of software I really love, but 1Password comes close.
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Likedrcmnd.app
PreviewTheir words
For desktop I use a lot of native Apple apps, including Mail, Notes, Calculator, Preview (which is powerful and very underrated), even Safari.
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Usesrcmnd.app
OvercastTheir words
I use Overcast for podcasts.
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Usesrcmnd.app
InstapaperTheir words
For reading it's Instapaper, the Kindle app, and the native iBooks app.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Google DocsTheir words
Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS. (Both of which are lovely, WYSIWYG, very simple and easy to use.)
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Lovedrcmnd.app
sea serpent braceletTheir words
My sea serpent bracelet from Jill Platner. I put it on and take it off dozens of times a day, and slide it back and forth between my hands. It has the perfect weight and feel
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Lovedrcmnd.app
iMac Retina 5KTheir words
there's the 27" iMac Retina 5K in my home office, which is the last really good personal computer that Apple made.
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Apple extended keyboardTheir words
I always use the Apple extended keyboard, which I love
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From one piece Nota bene: Tabular figures 2 beliefs · felix.substack.com
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The number 1 is the most significant digit about 30% of the time.
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Their words
Pretty much any time you're using numbers outside a regular sentence, you should be using tabular figures.
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Substack's platform design emphasizes paid subscriptions so strongly that it obscures the option to sign up for free.Their words
Substack is focused mainly on generating paying subscribers, rather than just subscribers, and so it can be hard for people to realize that it's entirely possible (and welcome!) to sign up for free.
2 June 2018
From one piece Nota bene: Habitat 67 3 beliefs · felix.substack.com
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Brutalist buildings often age badly; Habitat 67 is proof that they don't need to, not even when they're built in a rush out of pre-fabricated units.
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Repeating a single floor plan vertically remains the default model for large-scale residential construction.Their words
I wish he were right, but the fact is the repeat-the-floor-plan model is very much the default, still.
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A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops.Their words
A higgledy-piggledy apartment building doesn't create density on its own, and Habitat 67 remains, half a century after its construction, bereft of the kind of schools and shops and other facilities that would help to kickstart a genuinely livable suburb.
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Korrents What they believe 9 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
Each is a — compiled by korrents.com, not by them: the one-line wordings are korrents', the quotes are theirs.
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Mass shootings are a relatively small share of American gun deaths compared to other causes.
Mass shootings are a relatively small phenomenon even by the standard of American gun deaths.
Nota bene: Mass shootings Said 14 Aug 2019
Increased media coverage of mass shootings increases public fear of them.
The more coverage that mass shootings receive, the more scared the country becomes.
Nota bene: Mass shootings Said 14 Aug 2019
Media coverage of mass violence functions as a socially acceptable outlet for anti-Trump sentiment.
the media reaction to mass violence is in reality a sublimated and socially acceptable reaction to Trump.
Nota bene: Mass shootings Said 14 Aug 2019
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Substack's platform design emphasizes paid subscriptions so strongly that it obscures the option to sign up for free.
Substack is focused mainly on generating paying subscribers, rather than just subscribers, and so it can be hard for people to realize that it's entirely possible (and welcome!) to sign up for free.
Nota bene: Nota bene Said 5 Jun 2018
Tabular figures should be used any time numbers appear outside a normal sentence.
Pretty much any time you're using numbers outside a regular sentence, you should be using tabular figures.
Nota bene: Tabular figures Said 5 Jun 2018
The digit 1 is the leading digit in roughly 30% of naturally occurring numbers.
The number 1 is the most significant digit about 30% of the time.
Nota bene: Tabular figures Said 5 Jun 2018
A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops.
A higgledy-piggledy apartment building doesn't create density on its own, and Habitat 67 remains, half a century after its construction, bereft of the kind of schools and shops and other facilities that would help to kickstart a genuinely livable suburb.
Nota bene: Habitat 67 Said 2 Jun 2018
Repeating a single floor plan vertically remains the default model for large-scale residential construction.
I wish he were right, but the fact is the repeat-the-floor-plan model is very much the default, still.
Nota bene: Habitat 67 Said 2 Jun 2018
Brutalist buildings are not inherently doomed to age badly.
Brutalist buildings often age badly; Habitat 67 is proof that they don't need to, not even when they're built in a rush out of pre-fabricated units.
Nota bene: Habitat 67 Said 2 Jun 2018
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Loved Apple extended keyboard
I always use the Apple extended keyboard, which I love
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved iMac Retina 5K
there's the 27" iMac Retina 5K in my home office, which is the last really good personal computer that Apple made.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved sea serpent bracelet
My sea serpent bracelet from Jill Platner. I put it on and take it off dozens of times a day, and slide it back and forth between my hands. It has the perfect weight and feel
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
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Liked Google Docs
Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS. (Both of which are lovely, WYSIWYG, very simple and easy to use.)
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Uses Instapaper
For reading it's Instapaper, the Kindle app, and the native iBooks app.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Uses Overcast
Liked Preview
For desktop I use a lot of native Apple apps, including Mail, Notes, Calculator, Preview (which is powerful and very underrated), even Safari.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved 1Password
There are very few pieces of software I really love, but 1Password comes close.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved Artemide Tolomeo
I've put a little circular side table next to it which is perfect for a glass of wine or whisky, alongside an Artemide Tolomeo floor lamp; it's my own little corner of modernist bliss.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved Eames Aluminum Group lounge chair
I'm always promising myself that I should read more books, and I have the perfect device for doing so: an Eames Aluminum Group lounge chair with ottoman.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved Withings Activité
I love anything that doesn't come with battery anxiety, like, well, my Masahiro Maruyama eyeglasses, or my original Withings Activité watch, which is waterproof, so I almost never take it off.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Recommends T-Mobile
T-Mobile doesn't come close to having the best coverage, but once you've experienced the wonders of free international roaming, you'll never use any other carrier.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Disliked iPad mini 2
I also have a black AT&T 128GB iPad mini 2, which is a clunky horrible thing and slow as molasses.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Mixed on Bose QuietComfort 35
including my electric toothbrush and my Bose QuietComfort 35 cordless headphones. (I'm not a huge fan of those, either, they're a bit too bulky, I don't like the way they keep on talking to me about what they've connected to or disconnected from, and they tend to press on the arms of my eyeglasses.)
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved Jarvis standing desk
My best big hardware purchase was undoubtedly my Jarvis standing desk, which singlehandely cured me of a really nasty pain across the back of my shoulders.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
Loved Thule Paramount
I loved that thing, but I went out and bought a new Thule Paramount, and I really love it - I should listen to my wife more often.
usesthis.com 19 Oct 2018
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- Greetings from Bloomberg 12 Nov 2025 I've taken a step out of business journalism and into Ideas & Culture
- The Phoenix Economy 9 May 2023 It's out today!
- Nota bene: Mass shootings 14 Aug 2019 My friend Manu Saadia has a thing where he starts a bunch of his tweets with the phrase “I am going to say something very controversial but”.
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- Nota bene: The Axios era begins! 11 Sept 2018
- Nota bene: Nota bene 5 Jun 2018 I don’t love talking about myself, or what I’m up to.
- Nota bene: Tabular figures 5 Jun 2018 Numbers appear on top of each other in all manner of contexts, from sports scores to menus to those incomprehensibly dry data tables at the back of academic papers which you always wish would be graphs instead.
- Nota bene: Habitat 67 2 Jun 2018 I had two indelibly memorable experiences the last time I traveled to Montreal, just over a year ago.
- Nota bene: Cheers! 25 May 2018 It’s National Wine Day today, you don’t need me to tell you what to do.
- Nota bene: Flipping modern masters 13 May 2018 The two most valuable artworks at the big Sotheby’s evening sale on Monday were both acquired at auction not so long ago.
- Nota bene: <threads> 28 Apr 2018 In my last note I worried, not very much, about journalistic purity, and wondered why Business Insider was disinterring so many old stories about Jeff Bezos from a five-year-old book.
- Nota bene: SponCon agonistes 26 Apr 2018 Vanity Fair is putting up a paywall -- the increasingly universal signifier of quality independent editorial which can’t survive on ad revenue alone.
- Nota bene: Why New York won't get congestion pricing 20 Apr 2018 New York congestion pricing is dead, again.
- Nota bene: Josh Brown is failing 13 Apr 2018 This is the photo that Josh Brown, the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, used atop a recent post carrying the headline “Discipline Equals Freedom”:
- Nota bene: Guilt trips 4 Apr 2018 Every so often, after eating too much pizza or chocolate cake, I’ll feel guilty and remorseful, and I’ll want to make up for it by eating something healthy.
- Nota bene: Cooking warm, cooking cool 31 Mar 2018 I’m in the middle of a lovely beach break in Costa Rica, but for some reason I haven’t been able to get the egg spoon story out of my mind.
- Nota bene: Caldbeck vs robos 25 Mar 2018 Earlier this week, I published a column at Wired on Wealthfront, and how it has moved in a very worrying direction in recent weeks.
- Nota bene: Cover diversity 23 Mar 2018 When you take over a storied magazine, your first cover is important: it’s a public statement of who you are, what you stand for, what you hope to achieve.
- Nota bene: How Mark Zuckerberg should change the world, again 22 Mar 2018 Mark Zuckerberg has changed the world once, and he wants to do so again. Right now, his plan for doing so is to sell billions of dollars’ worth of Facebook stock, funnel the proceeds to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a…
- Nota bene: Gallows humor 20 Mar 2018 Did you laugh when you saw this tweet?
- Nota bene: Toys don't fung 19 Mar 2018 If you live in the USA, your local Toys R Us is closing down, with the loss of all the associated jobs.
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