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My Favorite Things This Week (2019 #4)

Articles Cities Are Tucking Climate Change Fixes Into New Laws [https://www.wired.com/story/cities-are-tucking-climate-change-fixes-into-new-laws/] An interesting story about how US cities are creating more policies that tackle climate change through land use and zoning reform. Kids’ movies are ready to

The Struggle To Finish A Side Project

After a lot of technical and design work in the past month to get Wave Radio ready for launch, I'm finally launching the beta today. I started working on this project in August 2018 but progress completely stalled when I found some technical issues with the stack I&

This Ain't For You, This Be For My Health

After reading Sam Altman's post How To Be Successful [http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful] today this section stood out to me. > The most successful people I know are primarily internally driven; they do what they do to impress themselves and because they feel compelled

Putting Your Thoughts Into Words

Some time ago I wrote a post [https://200wordsaday.com/words/how-i-d-like-to-write-9775c196707cf289] about the characteristics I'd like to include in my writing. I've always had these ideas in my mind, but writing them out has helped me a lot. Since

Don't Take The Money

It's a privilege to be able to forgo money for less tangible things. Experience, passion, or duty. Not everyone has that luxury. Money is tempting even when you don't need it. It's no surprise that most of the wealthy seek to get wealthier. In

Accepting The Risk of Embarrassment

I recently finished Auston Kleon's Show Your Work and this quote he used stuck with me. > "Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide." - Colin Marshall It can feel like embarrassment is the worst pain one could bear. You wish you could cease to

My Favorite Things This Week (2019 #3)

Articles Facebook’s 10-year glow-up challenge reminds us that Facebook used to be fun [https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/14/18182052/facebook-10-year-challenge-glow-up-profile-picture] I loved this look at how Facebook and our relationship has changed in the past 10 years. It

Happy Birthday Mac

No celebrity death has ever affected me the way Mac Miller's did last September. I was in shock, I cried, I reminisced. I was surprised at how hurt I felt. I wasn't fully aware of how deep the connection created through music and art can run.

Whataboutism

With many of the recent hot topics, I've seen a natural inclination by many to revert to whataboutism. > Whataboutism is a variant of the tu quoque [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque] logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them

Google Killing Products Is Ok

Where were you when Google announced they were killing Google Reader? If your answer is "What's Google Reader?", then you're in the majority. But in the world of mega-corps like Google, a product loved by a minority can have a user base of