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“Do 100 Thing” is a phrase I came up with when riffing around the idea of being prolific, making lots of stuff. It’s obviously not an original idea – Nietzsche suggested it, /r/thexeffect could be thought of as “do 49 thing”. I was also influenced by the parable of the…

Maurice Sendak’s Banned, Burned Book.

"I feel the person I was is someone I know intimately but isn’t me now. The monster lies dormant, though, and could be very easily awakened."

Problems are typically richer than our preconceived notions about how to solve them.

And rarely simple

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6 Played-Out Ideas that Block New Visions for Society

Obsidian, the indie darling of notetaking apps, rejects everything you know about modern software. And it's working.

Stop telling women to marry 'down'

A manifesto for winter light

plus animal blessings for thanksgiving

Schedule time for mind wandering

Into the void

I’ve been in Japan for the past two weeks relaxing, eating, walking and — yes — playing. I haven’t been worrying about work or the kids or my li…

How Casey Neistat mastered video and took over the vlogging scene..

The unreasonable benefits of taking action on what you believe

Since Google’s introduction of its Pixel 8 phones earlier this month, it has been interesting and a little amusing to me to read the reactions to its image manipulation tools. It feels like we have been asking the same questions every year — questions like what is a photograph, anyway?, and has technology gone too […]

Everyone has tried and failed at growing an account on social media. Here's literally everything you need to know. Don't overcomplicate this.

Is it futile to tame the deluge of information? Well, I’m trying anyway by simplifying, streamlining and yes, deleting stuff.

Here we go... again...

The producer behind the latest 'Exorcist' film wants to change the way Hollywood does business.

Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that coming up with ideas is actually very easy––what makes it hard is that we’re aiming for good ideas. The next time you're coming up with ideas, tell yourself, Forget about good ideas, let's come up with a list of ten bad ideas. The dumber the better! I bet you’ll find that easy. And once you loosen up your brain by coming up with ten bad ideas, some good ideas may follow.

Counterintuitively, escalating is good for relationships and very good for demonstrating responsibility.

Matthew Mercer takes D&D very seriously. But he never thought he'd become its biggest superstar.

Frustrated? Procrastinating? Stuck? You've scrolled through all the timelines, checked your email 10 times, and now what? You don't feel like working...