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#71: Cities Are Getting Smaller
#71: Cities Are Getting Smaller
“Places—individual stores, neighborhoods, and entire cities—are fragile, and the internet makes them more so.” “Marshall McLuhan wrote that every new medium contained another medium as its content: Speech, for example, became the content of writing, as writing became the content of print. Cities, which grew independently for so long, might now be the content of the internet.”
·us14.campaign-archive.com·
#71: Cities Are Getting Smaller
Never
Never
Making a claim that something will never be the case can feel like an invitation for the universe to prove otherwise. Fortunately for us, Swift lives up to this higher standard thanks to the unlikeliest of types.
·nshipster.com·
Never
Void
Void
Void has no members: no methods, no values, not even a name. It’s a something more nothing than nil.
·nshipster.com·
Void
Hitting Resume
Hitting Resume
“(I am writing this across the room from an absolute unit of a black lab, whose name I imagine to be Bear or perhaps Winchester, whom I am summoning the energy and wherewithal to go up and pet.)”
·newsletter.jmduke.com·
Hitting Resume
The Many Sides of Friendship
The Many Sides of Friendship
Each quarter Chris Yeh and I convene about 20 of our friends on the peninsula and 20 of our friends in San Francisco for a conversation over lunch. Each lunch, called the Junto, has a theme. So far…
·casnocha.com·
The Many Sides of Friendship
Small Online Shop Gifts
Small Online Shop Gifts
“As a small business owner (@tattly) I am always trying to support other small businesses. In this thread I'll mention a few small online shops I love in context of holiday season gifting. Add your recommendation in the thread?”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Small Online Shop Gifts
Dad
Dad
At the service, I read the eulogy below, which tried to explain why he was special to so many of us. Writing it was easy, at least in part because he wrote the best bits himself. The hard part was reading it. He laughed at his own jokes and at yours. He made it very easy to love him.
·waxy.org·
Dad
Calendar Mirroring
Calendar Mirroring
“Open sourced a small tool I use to put "Busy" events on my work calendar when I create events on my personal calendar, powered by @IFTTT and Amazon Lambda: https://t.co/22MCaIgbP9 It's run 718 times over the past year and a half with zero maintenance!”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Calendar Mirroring
HQ2
HQ2
“I’m neither wise nor smart enough to answer the question Is Amazon good for Seattle? But the position of most non-Amazon tech companies in Seattle is that they’re thankful for Amazon’s presence, if for no other reason that they act as a lightning rod for all criticism of Seattle’s rapid upheaval.”
·jmduke.com·
HQ2
Everest’s Next Game
Everest’s Next Game
“my next game project--- the ground itself -- is this one session table-top storytelling game for 2-6 players, about specific places over highly variable time periods. it uses accessible materials (deck of cards, coin, 6 sided die, paper) and takes a few hours to play”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Everest’s Next Game
Jonny’s Thread on His Avatar
Jonny’s Thread on His Avatar
“trying out a new avatar for a bit. i've been thinking a lot about what it means that i don't feel comfortable with my own face and why i generally feel more comfortable writing through a pseudonymous identity, and how that often feels more real and genuine than my own face.”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Jonny’s Thread on His Avatar
Cleaning House
Cleaning House
“I let my work seep into every hour that I had previously kept sacred as mine. When I walked home from the office, or did chores around my apartment, I listened to the political news that I had missed while working. When I slept, I was visited by my projects and colleagues in my sleep. When I ran in the park in the morning, instead of seeing the trees, I envisioned tasks I planned to complete later in the day.” “This house has weathered the upbringing of two children and one divorce.” “Eleni and I are still close friends, but we no longer do each others hair.”
·medium.com·
Cleaning House