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This is genius: how to get shit done when the whole world is going to shit.
Continue reading [Positive News] Productivity in Terrible Times – Eileen Webb
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ICANN DNS key changeover. Short clip from longer, inaccessible, film.
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In the internet age, recall memory—the ability to spontaneously call information up in your mind—has become less necessary… what’s called recognition memory is more important. “So long as you know where that information is at and how to access it, then you don’t really need to recall it,” [Horvath] says.
Continue reading [Memory] Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read – Julie Beck
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A summary of psychedelics in civilisation, from the Eleusinian Mysteries to Amazon shamanism, including a digest of modern scientific research on how psychedelics might make someone a ‘better’ person.
Continue reading [Psychedelics] Can psychedelics make you a better person? Jules Evans
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Continue reading [Psychology] Contact lenses ‘boost sexual success’
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Continue reading [Writing] Should You Write What You Know? 31 Authors Weigh In
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Continue reading [Cryptography] An Introduction to Public Key Cryptography and PGP
A fairly short, easy read. The language is clear and unstylised. The 32 chapters are fairly short. It’s about 300 pages, but the font is pretty large, with much white space. I didn’t count the words.
The plot is straightforward: a man walks to Berwick to save the life of a former work colleague. But the journey is really an unfolding of the collapse of Harold’s marriage after the suicide of their son. At the end, the resolution is a reavowing of the marriage and their love, represented by them laughing over a crappy old joke she made when they first met. Continue reading [Books Read] The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
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In the wake of Poynter’s… let’s call it naive piece on how writers can source cheap or free images for their words, here’s a quick guide for those who still don’t get how editorial photography and…
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Continue reading [Journalism] What Happened When Newsrooms Abandoned Photojournalism