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My new website In early 2021, I rebuilt my website at origami.kosmulski.org from scratch. It was a complete redesign which started with planning what I wanted the site to be and who its intended audience was, followed by looking at a few potential technologies, checking them out and choosing one, building the site, and tuning its load times and SEO. While a few details are specific to origami, most are completely general and should be interesting to anyone planning to create their personal web page, regardless of topic.

Dreamweaver as a low-code local-first native app

So except for the occasional on-site meeting, almost all of my meetings have been done on the phone.[image] If you were a fly on the wall in my office during a phone meeting, you’d see me with my head down scribbling notes while listening, scribbling notes while talking, and even asking for a…

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How to Win the Internet

When I was in the third grade, I learned that being Asian was different.

The New York Times caused a stir recently when, in an article about pandemic book sales, it disclosed that “98 percent of the books that publishers released in 2020 sold fewer than 5,000 copies.” Though that statistic was shocking to many, it is not new information.

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And start raising kind ones.

Give a good ending to your readers that’s good for business too. Here’s how to do that – Content Marketing Institute

Dean Jackson is old school. He's the creator of a bunch of cool marketing tactics that make up the foundations of internet marketing. I've heard him speak 100's of times and his simple, conversational approach to marketing still blows my mind every time. I was a guest on Dean Jackson's…

And it’s not to be a generalist.

If you’ve ever felt like modern social networks only show a cardboard-cutout version of yourself, it might be time to make your personal changelog.

In a paper published last month in the journal Nature (summary), a group of scientists from the University of Virginia reported on a series of experiments designed to assess how we solve problems. When presented with a challenging scenario, humans cannot evaluate every possible solution, so we instead deploy heuristics to prune this search space down […]

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C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Frau V. Dear Frau V., 15 December 1933 Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live. One lives as one can. There is no sing…

You can found an institution, or you can inherit it.

Trends: An Inside Look at How 7-Figure Newsletters Make Money. Presented by: Ethan Brooks Senior Analyst, and Lead Researcher for Guides

Honoring the reader’s time and attention.

The “writer brain” helps content marketers in the early part of their career, but, left unchecked, it hinders them in the latter stages.

How to play the game of life for long-term rewards

Narrative nonfiction writers who have written books: What one thing do you wish you'd known when you started working on your first book? What do you wish you'd done differently?

K guys I need all your book writing advice. Like, all of it. You may think “we’ll surely she knows this” I don’t I am dumb as rocks, help me

A trove of quotes on the great jazz musician's composing process

How founders got their first 1000 customers

It's worse than a board of advisors. The entire idea of burning ETH to change the monetary policy was proposed by Ethereum's founder Vitalik Buterin back in 2018 to pump ETH's price (and his premine). https://t.co/TNzSfIUKBn pic.twitter.com/5E3lOhMpgT— grubles (@notgrubles) May 2, 2021

What I learnt from art history and art