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On this 4/20, my goal is to just see how many missions I can knock out today. They didn’t reset until around 7pm last night around which time I no longer felt up to doing much of anything. The sudden return to winter yesterday in Vermont didn’t help my state of mind or my nerves.…
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Excerpts From “Reflections on War and Death” by Sigmund Freud (1939), which is freely available on Apple Books here: https://books.apple.com/us/book/reflections-on-war-and-death/id494504141 “…for our conscience is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is; it has its origin in nothing but ‘social fear.’” “Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and…
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I needed a good start to the morning and what do you know… I got an Omastar in wonder trade on home. Not something I can use, right? But when I checked the GTS for potential trades, I got a shiny Hisuian Goodra , level 100, ready to go. Now I do have one in…
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Source: TOP 10 BOOKS FROM UNDERGRAD IN HISTORY | philosophy, journalism, political theory by Ruby Hart Ruby is an undergraduate student of history offering her top ten book recommendations. These selections include fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and philosophy. Her approach is to offer books that reflect a diverse approach to understanding history. I felt these were…
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When I first began to develop the framework for what would eventually become the CRAP framework, it was because I felt the language I was using to discuss ideas was broken somehow. I needed a better vocabulary with which to define and expand on my own disillusionment with institutional education and intellectual life. I’ve long…
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Back in 2021, while reading lots of books about sabermetrics, using statistics in baseball to find hidden value, I came up with this wild idea of a metric called Words Above Replacement. It’s inspired by the WAA (Wins Above Average) metric in baseball statistics. The idea I had was to find some way to figure…
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The ABCD critique framework is an extremely useful tool for feedback, and is one I use for my critiques of both my own and others’ work all the time. I learned about it through a Sublime App interview with Substack writer Anu Atluru, but the ABCD framework origin seems to be the blog of Cassidy…
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With no weekly or membership missions available until tomorrow, I’m doing the absolute bare minimum today. I have other things to work on all of a sudden. Kind of an underwhelming first recruit today, although I really do like the female Meowstic. I really like the Sylveon, too, but I’ll take Meowstic here and recruit…
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Benjamin Hoff and His Conclusion on What We Can Learn from Pooh Corner: “Within each of us there is an owl, a rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are…
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I’ve always liked these big idea books, suggested by RJ of the flourishing actually, because they do what they suggest. While I gave away Star Trek book, as I didn’t really get anything out of it, the movie book and Sherlock Holmes books were enjoyable though. I didn’t care for some of the film selections.…