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  • Fascinating book “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”. First you learn what it's like to do the no-skill jobs in China, but near the end it takes a twist as he quits to become an insightful writer. My notes Derek Sivers

    Fascinating book “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”. First you learn what it's like to do the no-skill jobs in China, but near the end it takes a twist as he quits to become an insightful writer. My n…

    Today · 13:44
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    • Explorer? Being lost makes you fully present? The mystery of distance. Desire cherished instead of satisfied. Similar thoughts in this book
    • Interesting business book 'Alchemy' by Rory Sutherland about ideas that don't make sense in theory but work in practice
  • The most intense shoe salesman you’ll ever meet, a CBS... Jason Kottke

    The most intense shoe salesman you’ll ever meet, a CBS News report by Charles Kuralt from 1983 about a “champion” shoe salesman.…

    Today · 13:44
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    • The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky
    • Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book...
    • Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity...
    • A YouTuber discovered that most videos contain inaudible...
    • Winners of the 2026 Photomicrography Competition
    • Dark Forestry. “What defense against this onslaught of...
    • The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she...
    • They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent...
    • The Match Archive
    • An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...
    • “Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and...
    • We Have Star Wars at Home
    • From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon...
    • A call for more “mindful underparenting” from...
    • KDO Search Now Available to Everyone
    • Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million....
    • Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer...
    • And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy...
    • Salon, one of the last OG general interest web...
    • Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...
    • Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at...
    • Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis...
    • Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow
    • Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful...
    • Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose...
    • A growing list of brands to avoid because they are...
    • Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies
    • I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind. “To anyone...
  • Is The Future of Design Systems In A Context Layer? Mark Boulton

    Stuart Frisby nails a problem I’ve been observing for a while. This is where design as infrastructure stops being a slogan and becomes a requirement. If the tool can’t communicate a stan…

    Today · 11:04
  • Archives.Design Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Archive.Design is a digital archive of graphic design related items. A labor of love by Valery Marier.…

    Yesterday · 16:20
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    • Draw.Horses
    • A Beauty of a Lighter
    • Give Freely
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 11/7 Rob Weychert

    🎬 Added to the film diary:Vampyros LesbosJesús Franco, 1971, ★★★PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PABlade RunnerRidley Scott, 1982, ★★★★FlowGints Zilbalodis, 2024, ★★★★Fear CityAbe…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
  • Hacking a new home screen for my Samsung TV Cassidy Williams

    I used Nathan Clark's CleanFrame project to make my 2021 Samsung TV work and feel better!…

    Two Days Ago · 17:00
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    • Editing videos with Borumi, FFmpeg, and GitHub Copilot
  • Got Them Little Side Projects Moved to CodePen Hosting Chris Coyier

    I had my little Smashburgers in Bend website on Astro on Cloudflare Pages. While I 💜 both of those things, CodePen hosting is more than capable, and that’s obviously extremely fun and satisfy…

    Three Days Ago · 16:42
  • Pseudo-pseudo-classes for maximum interactive demos! Dave Rupert

    Have you ever wanted to display all variants of a Button next to each other in your Storybook like your designer did in Figma? But then you come to a screeching halt when you realize :hover, :active,…

    Three Days Ago · 08:50
  • Studio Notes #109 Dan Cederholm

    Good Morning, Friendly Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🐆 Apparently I’m about a year late to this, but Cheetos…

    Three Days Ago · 07:43
  • In Your Face - Meeting reminder app for Mac, Windows, iPhone, and iPad | In Your Face Brad Frost

    In Your Face is one of my favorite apps for making sure my ADHD brain shows up to meetings and events on time.…

    The Other Day · 17:00

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