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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.…
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I got a high level Furfrou through pokemon home, so we may see that eventually. While our battles went badly thanks to me being too lazy to team build, the recruitment lately has been great. I also have decided to bring in my corviknight. Since I’m not squeezed for storage space I can be a…
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While I will continue playing this game, I’m taking a step back for a bit and just doing daily quests and a battle here and there for completing goals. I will say I acquired an Eelektross through pokemon home wonder trade and GTS shenanigans, so we have a future mega eelektross to enjoy. I’ll be…
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I’m going to be doing the bare minimum today. Maybe for the next few. As much as I love Pokemon, my headspace just isn’t into the high-level competition of double battles right now. So, this will be a compilation of a few days worth of Champions recruitment and very short notes of battle results. I’m…