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A partner's difficult trait becomes tolerable only if their good qualities outweigh it and you don't feel alone dealing with its effects.
My general view on a partner with a challenging quality is that to make peace with it, two things need to be true: 1. They have enough wonderful qualities you value to compensate for it, and 2. They don't make you feel…
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How do you feel when you wake up and before bed and how easily do you fall asleep? The time in bed in the morning and at night tells you all you need to know. It's not a purely intellectual reasoning. It's not a pro and…
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Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. This is the weekend I get my wood in (i.e. have pellets delivered) so I'm thinking of chillier days even though it's 70° outside. Trust…
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Therapy is like dating: how to know if it's working
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if you feel "too busy" to exercise, instead try finding active moments you can do throughout the day: - walk after lunch - take stairs instead of elevator - choose a parking spot farther away - give your kids an extra…
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Losing your emotions does not leave you a cooler decision-maker; it leaves you unable to organise a life at all.
if you have massive frontal lobe lesions that make it the case that you're no longer emotionally responding to stimuli the consequences are devastating which is that you cannot make decisions complex decisions in your…
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You Have to Feel It
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Crypto's real question was never how transactions settle: changing the currency is something that happens to retired people who have no way of making new money.
There have been countries that have gone through currency resets. This is not a nice experience because if you had a little bit of money, a currency reset can mean you have now no money. If you had no money, it may feel…
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Hotkeys on websites feel both good and bad. I like them when I want to use them (YouTube playback controls) but on most sites it's usually a problem. If you start typing while not in an input you might have made 10…
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Easing is the most important part of any animation: it can make a bad animation feel great and a great one feel bad.
Easing is the most important part of any animation. It can make a bad animation feel great and a great animation feel bad. That’s why you have to know which easing to choose in a specific situation.
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Brainsteering — Kevin & Shawn Coyne
Brainstorming sucks. If you don't know that, read this book to understand why. If you know that but don't feel like you have a great alternative, this is a book with a great process I have since used and found it to…
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Effective Political Giving
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How to learn a language effectively
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Society has catching up to do: AI is incredibly powerful and not always right, and people who argue 'but my agent said so' have not learned that yet.
So, I feel we, as a society, we need some catching up to do in terms of understanding that AI is incredibly powerful, but it's not always right. It's not, it's not all-powerful, you know?
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A writer's audience does not carry from one book to the next: every book is another startup you have to make happen from scratch.
I see no evidence that I'm dragging people along with me. I feel like each each book feels like another startup and that I've got to go out and make it happen almost as if I've not written one.
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A growth team that only explores turns scattershot, and one that only exploits saturates — the job is to keep oscillating between the two.
If you do too much exploration, you can have your team feel a little bit too scattershot, just trying a 100 different random ideas. What's the through line? What's the strategy? How do you pattern match, you know,…
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I think if you have especially a B2B feature where you may have some lock in reverse trials can be super powerful. You just want to get people in there. You don't need to ask for their credit card because they're using…
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Do You Feel Lucky? — Kjartan Poskitt
This is part of the Murderous Maths series, and is my favourite book. It is great. It is a book for secondary school kids full of cartoons and lovely characters like this filthy boy called Pongo McWhiffy, or the one I…
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Victorinox Hunter Pro Alox — Victorinox
The problem is the knife is way too heavy. Maybe if they ditched the liners, thinned the blade, and re-worked the steel backstrap you would have something that could cross-over between outdoor use and Urban EDC without…
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The C Programming Language — Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
What can one say about this book, that hasn't been said already? Perhaps this: that of all the books written about programming, this has the highest information density of them all. And yet it's so pleasant to read.…