Self employment, for me at least, is a never-ending contest between the world’s worst manager and the world’s laziest employee.
~ Daniel Akst
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Self employment →
It makes no sense →
Whenever anyone tells me that some platform is great, I always nod and think to myself … for now. For now.
~ Bob Sassone, from Bluesky is not going to save you
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I don’t understand why no one else is saying this: Until I see anyone else running separate federation instances, it’s still just another monolithic platform. This again? If the AT Protocol (what Bluesky is built upon) is really great, how do I run my own instance to join the federation?
If you see only one instance, then it’s a platform. When you see multiple instances talking to each other, then it’s a protocol.
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Magical things →
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~ Eden Phillpotts
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What’s my thing? →
That was always a huge thing for me. I was so terrible at everything at school; I couldn’t catch a ball, I couldn’t even run without running into a tree. I was pretty uncoordinated. I couldn’t paint or draw, I couldn’t sing, and I thought I was just hopeless at everything. And then I discovered that what I could do was string words together in ways that tickled people.
~ Stephen Fry, from Stephen Fry
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I think my problem was I was too good (not actually good, but not bad enough) at too many things. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a clear calling like Fry describes.
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Our limited imagination →
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
~ Shakespeare‘s Hamlet
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Only so many hours →
Several years ago the idea struck me to try living in the digital world but without digital media. I realised that I used to have all these analogue habits that fell by the wayside as I spent more time online, and thought that six months without digital media would give me the opportunity to focus on more material activities.
~ From Jennifer Rauch on why Slow Media is satisfying, sustainable and smart
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There are, after all, only so many hours in the day. Our choices (or our defaults if we don’t choose) end up determining the quality of our lives.
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Oh crap →
The Fourth Rule of the Artist’s Journey is: It’s for life.
~ Steven Pressfield, from The Artist’s Journey Is a Lifetime Engagement
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Because that means there’s not going to be an end, so I better get my stuff sorted.
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Still too long, didn’t read →
From the moment food touches your tongue to the time it leaves your body, your digestive system and gut microbiome work to extract its nutrients. Enzymes in your mouth, stomach and small intestine break down food for absorption, while microbes in your large intestine digest the leftovers.
~ Christopher Damman, from Is weight loss as simple as calories in, calories out? In the end, it’s your gut microbes and leftovers that make your calories count
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That’s about the greatest summary I’ve ever read. The rest of the article is good too. Definitely not too long, and worth the read.
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Too long, didn’t read →
The first thing I’d like to point out is that the left and right sides of the energy balance equation could both be giving orders, and both be taking orders. The two possibilities aren’t mutually exclusive. And I think you can make a case for it going both ways.
~ Stephan Guyenet, from The science of body weight and health
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…but you should. Because the answer (to why we get fat) is complicated. There is no single, simple-to-control, cause and effect.
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Post-industrial →
But what most energizes Walley is gathering stories that reveal the trauma left-behind industrial workers have suffered. She is also focused on how to prevent such devastating fallout, which can stoke the kind of social and political unrest that’s roiling the U.S. as mining and manufacturing jobs disappear. “This stuff is talked about through things like statistics. People don’t get a sense of what it actually felt like,” Walley says. “Conveying it through stories gives a whole different perspective.”
~ Elizabeth Svoboda, from Life and Death After the Steel Mills
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At one point, the area where I grew up was dominated by a steel mill. Then, slowly over time, it suddenly wasn’t.
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