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1610: late pie

Throughput * We made this banoffee pie and it was amazing (this actually happened a few weeks back and I forgot to mention but it was really good so I thought it was worth bringing up). Our tin was a bit small which meant all the layers (and especially the caramel)

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Actually Good Writing

Last year Slate Star Scott referred to Boris Johnson as "a shockingly good writer". If you read the article in question, leaving aside quibbles about the complete lack of substance in the content you'll find a perfectly passable Wodehouse pastiche; the written equivalent of Johnson'

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Personality In Politics

I really liked Matt Bruenig's piece on how the form and content of people's political persuasions are perhaps better mapped on separate axes: A better way to think about this may be that how a particular person approaches their political advocacy is just a (mostly) separate

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ADHD: Full Life Consequences

I was helping a friend who was looking to get some ADHD coaching a while back, and in the course of the research came across some stats for ADHD sufferers' health outcomes which were bonkers: 37% more likely to get into car accidents? 11-13 years decreased life expectancy? This

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1609: catch the drift like japanese cars

beep beep

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Miss Congeniality Made Me Feel Like A Targeted Individual

Back in the day, before I met my girlfriend, I was on various dating apps. Not the best experince in the world, though I did end up meeting my girlfriend through one of them (Hinge, which is therefore the one I'd recommend—though obviously a lot can change

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How To Cure Your Eczema In A Week: Follow-Up 1 (In Which N Expands To 3)

mometasone, mo problems

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They’re Coming For Librivox

This is something that happened a while ago, and let's go for the most generous interpretation: Microsoft decided to take a small fraction of their huge piles of money and do something good with it by letting Project Gutenberg, the free ebook people who've been going

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1607: drawer organiser

bleh

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Shownotes: Q: Into The Storm

trust the plan

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How To Cure Your Eczema In <1 Weeks, An n=1 Study

just call me adam englebrightoianni

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Why Are You Struggling?

seriously not a productivity blog

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1606: beep beep

vroom vroom

Specific Distraction

Here's something that happens to me sometimes: I'm not busy—I have some small, unimportant things to do, and one specific big important task. It might not necessarily be that difficult or complicated, but it does have a deadline. Then I leave it and leave it

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Information Landscape

I went to a book talk on Monday, the topic of which was QAnon. I've been fascinated with QAnon for years, but something I keep coming back to is that it seems to have a weirdly mass appeal despite large sections of it seeming on their face not

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Project Decay

Thinking about projects which fail before they've really got going got me thinking about another phenomenon which certainly isn't the same but is partially related—projects which used to have vitality but don't any longer, they just have a long fade-out. I feel like

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1605: hot box

it's been warm

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Does Culture Matter?

probably

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Adaptivity or acracy?

i am the gravedigger of the project graveyard

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Booknotes: Better Boys, Better Men

would like to see some better books!!! folks,

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1604: cold snap

it's been cold

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Projects I Won't Do: Dogfinder

dog dog dog

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Everything Is Content Marketing

in the same way that everything is event promotion

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Relationship With The System

I'm remembering the 90s again

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1603: snow liveblog

there is no snow liveblog