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EWG’s 2023 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™
Check out EWG's list to help decide when you should splurge for organic produce – part of our annual Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™
crypto32-Bit Cafe
A web space community that focuses on building websites for self-expression and creativity, made up of professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts of the personal web.
creative
Watch An Irish Goodbye — Oscar® and BAFTA® winning short film Online | Vimeo On Demand
Academy Award® Winner - Best Live Action Short Film 2023 BAFTA® Award Winner - Best British Short Film 2023 On a farm in rural Northern Ireland, estranged…
inbox
How to Get Into a Focused State Quickly - Scott H Young
Here's a simple question to ask yourself - any time you find yourself facing the impulse to give up and distract yourself.
mindsets
100 Little Ideas
A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works…
1st Podcast: The Godfather of Dry-Aged Beef
Meet Bryan Flannery and hear about all things beef, cattle & dry-aging.
Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.
Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing
the thing.
Writing a banger tweet about how you're going to do the thing isn't
doing the thing.
Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn't doing the thing.
Hating on other people who have done the thing isn't doing the
thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn't
doing the thing.
Fantasizing about all of the adoration you'll receive once you do
the thing isn't doing the thing.
Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading
about how other people did the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading
this essay isn't doing the thing.
The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.
William Gibson on Cultivating a “Personal Micro-Culture”
On the building blocks of creativity and acquiring a sense of what feels right.
P&B: Jamie Thingelstad – Manu
This is the 16th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jamie …
tool
The dumbest and best productivity trick
And why I’m rebelling against it anyway
MacStories Selects 2023: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year
John: Every year, it seems like the MacStories Selects awards roll around faster than the last, and this year was no exception. For most people, the year begins on January 1st, but for us, WWDC marks the beginning of our year, and the MacStories Selects Awards feel like its conclusion. Plenty happens the rest of
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
Hi. My name is Cabel. And I’ve probably got the neatest job in the whole world. I wear many hats. But here on my personal blog, I get to write about the things I really care about, just for y…
Do You Use It? Finder Tags See Focused Use - TidBITS
The results of our poll asking how often you use Finder tags are in, and while tags aren’t broadly popular, being reminded of what they can do for you might encourage you to use them in appropriate situations.
Switch off bad TV settings
Watch movies like the makers intended by switching off weird smart tv settings.
Examples of Great URL Design
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Brett's Favorites 2023 - BrettTerpstra.com
Welcome to my yearly post about stuff I’ve loved in the last year. I love doing this because it reminds me how amazing the Mac/iOS app ecosystem is these days. I can’t list every app I use in this
Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman is one of Silicon Valley’s grown-ups. After helping to found PayPal, he moved on to launch LinkedIn in 2002—an endeavor that turned him into a billionaire. He was an early investor in Facebook and now serves as a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock. In this edited interview with Tim Sullivan, of HBR Press, Hoffman explores his idea of “blitzscaling”—the discipline of getting very big very fast. In today’s networked landscape, the path to high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurship can be chaotic and grueling. It involves rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. And there’s no playbook to guide you, Hoffman notes. “You throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down.” Hoffman emphasizes that blitzscaling is not just about growing revenues and the customer base but also about scaling the organization. People naturally focus on the first two, and “if you don’t get those right, then nothing else matters.” But very few businesses can succeed on those fronts without also building an organization that has the capability and the capacity to execute at a high level in the face of extremely rapid growth. The challenges, risks, and headaches of blitzscaling go beyond the operational; they can take a toll on organizational happiness. “But the thing that keeps these companies together—whether it’s PayPal, Google, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter,” Hoffman says, “is the sense of excitement about what’s happening and the vision of a great future.”
iA Writer 5: From Raw to Cooked to Sushi
Technology evolves from raw to complex to simple. From the fist to the hand axe to the hammer. From carts to the Model T to Tesla. From switchboard-operated phones to digital phones to smartphones. From SMS to Facebook to Messenger. From the crude to the cooked to Sushi.
My 12 Favorite Problems
A dozen things that drive my writing, research, thinking & actions
11 Creative Lessons from Brian Eno
The legendary composer on the creative process, importance of deadlines, problem with software in arts and what is art actually for?
The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
AI has its use cases, but it can’t solve a perennial mystery—yet
Writing as communion
Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth about the world, there exist groups that encourage divergence and healthy individuation.
