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"...the author makes some good points, a lot of the anger feels oddly misplaced." a significant portion of my internet experience could be boiled down to this single sentence.

Wild there's a Safeway sign in there and not Alpha Beta, Fedco, and the old Coronado bridge sign. My parents grew up around this time and a lot of it still looked liked this when I…

Did something similar but not nearly as long across a good part of Mexico a few years ago. It was wonderful though one cannot be in a hurry. I will have to consider your route for …

Ensure your career isn't your religion. After a decade in tech, mostly in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, I realized people had not ascended to some higher intellectual belief bu…

I became a parent of two this year and my oldest is now 3 years old. One of the greatest things in life has to be a newborn baby. And more than ever for me, it makes sense that the…

Picked up my two mentions of the Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila. Going to be looking to see if any of the other doctors have been mentioned.

Someone solved this 13 years ago: https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs

Panem et Circenses.

Teresa of Avila was 62 when she wrote the Interior Castle. Easily one of the most impactful books on my own life.

Yet…

Teddy Roosevelt did it best and against his own successor and own party.

This made me immediately want to play Age of Empires and drink a Mountain Dew. Well done sir.

In process of ditching everything Apple by the end of the year. Going all in on Linux. There's trade offs, nothings perfect, but I don't need a big desperate corporation trying to …

I remember reading Theodore Roosevelt's biography by Edmund Morris and being shocked how he was basically able to text everyone he needed to be in contact with while president thro…

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What a last name to be making this argument with.

I try to support writers directly. eg. You can purchase Paul Millerd's Pathless path on his gumroad page and it comes with both the ebook and audiobook: https://pathless.gumroad.co…

It used to be: "If New Mexico is newer than Mexico why is Mexico's constitution newer than New Mexicos" but it seems after running that one on Claude and ChatGPT this has been reso…

Disappointed that the author of the article has a German name but didn’t coin a long single German word for this.

I met David Sparks back at WWDC in 2018. One of the real ones. Definitely one of those internet people who inspired me make the jump out of Silicon Valley to do my own thing a few …

This is one of the truest comments I have ever read on here

Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy Few people understand the Punic wars and what it took to “delete” Carthage from the world. Delenda Cartago Est. Goldsworthy tells the story a…

Big nope.

Here for the Manchester United / Manchester City comments in response to that roster faux pas.