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> There's an awful lot of negativity here, but as someone who's 55 and has earned a good wage since I was 17, I really wish I had taken investing more seriously from the very begin…

Thanks for sharing this article. I wanted to know more about the headband, and the broadcast didn't provide much explanation. I wrote about Sifan Hassan a couple of months ago and …

I loved Every Frame a Painting, a series of video essays by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou that they posted on YouTube. They published a postmortem about the series on Medium when they…

After 6 years of development, Lyx's 2.4 series was released on May 31, 2024. The first Lyx maintenance release, 2.4.1, was July 5, 2024. I'm not involved in the project, so I like …

Thank you for reading this essay and for your kind, thoughtful comment. This is different from anything I've written and it took me a long time to get to the point where I felt lik…

I've written an 8,000-word essay on my favorite athlete, Sifan Hassan. You may find it interesting if you're a runner, like to watch the Olympics, or can relate to a person who cre…

I’m a big fan of MacroFactor. It’s one of my few subscriptions. It’s the only tracker that works for me. The developers make understanding nutrition as simple as possible without p…

For the past 2.5 years, I've published summaries of each month as it ends, so on 2023-06-30, I published a summary of June 2023. Each post has the following: - Narrative Introducti…

I love your blog. It's clear that you care as much about thinking and writing clearly as you do about your tech stack and readers' experience. I hop you continue to publish your id…

There are two well researched biographies of Buffett, The Making of an American Capitalist and The Snowball. Your characterization of his investments doesn’t match the narrative in…

Has anyone managed to make decent looking org charts using Mermaid or one of the other text-based diagram generators mentioned in this thread? I've been looking for a way to make i…

It's worth noting that libraries do a lot more than circulate books[0]. For many people, we're the place they use the internet, or where they print things out when they need a prin…

Go ahead and take the analogy further still. It's like people who only attend church on Easter and Christmas actively preventing other people from attending church on Sundays. Even…

Do you mean the Mass eBook project described here: https://www.cambridgema.gov/cpl/eLibrary.aspx Or is this something else the library does on its own?

If you're interested in how libraries are using technology, check out code4lib[0], a community of technologists who work in libraries. Hang out with us on IRC, subscribe to our mai…

I'm a librarian. I became a librarian because I've always loved libraries and always loved books. I haven't met many librarians who didn't have the same formative experience and wh…

Do you know which libraries are doing this?

It's controversially legal, at best, and probably isn't legal at all, at least in the US. Internet Archive's Open Library project[0] was doing something like this, and may still be…

Has anyone seen a guide that discusses which browser settings and plugins complement one another? Or which ones to use in different scenarios, e.g., I know what I'm doing, I don't …

What if this is reinforcing an idea that's widely believed, but doesn't actually exist? Here's a story about similarly sensationalized story that preyed on women's insecurities: ht…

I'm a big fan of rss2email. Personally, I like doing as much as possible in a single application. Combining email and feeds feels natural to me.