Stephen  

@casey I have done a similar thing! I use Pocket to store things though, and have done zero maintenance in what might be five years, so it’s a jungle haha

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Stephen  

@LogicalDash Universal Paperclips

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Stephen  

Pro: the design of the pools is beautiful and meaningful.
Con: powdered and liquid soaps are banned from the premesis.

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Stephen  

Some people I have spoken to seem to think this is totally obvious and sensible. One person at the Apple store said “yeah man, it’s ground zero.” Sure, but more specifically this is an Apple Store.

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Stephen  

There are no trash bins at the 9/11 memorial for “security reasons.” This is interesting to me.

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Stephen  

@darius @jalcine I visit library map rooms specifically!

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Stephen  

I love the Marie Kondo show so much that I'm going to take my to-do list, fold it in thirds, and store it standing up. Just to see if it helps.

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Sam Schlinkert  

"Critics of the big tech companies are often told, 'If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.' I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple."

What happened when a reporter blocks blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple for a week.

Featuring:
- Onionshare
- Jitsi
- Purism laptop
- Nokia phone
- physical maps, calendar, and books
- cash

gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five

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Stephen  

I bought Marie Kondo’s book a few years back, and I did her method when I moved from my big place in Ohio to this smaller place in New York, and it really did change my entire outlook.

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Stephen  

Also every time she does the meditation “greeting” the house I get emotional and I have no idea why but it really really works on me.

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Stephen  

Also love how when she sees a mess, she gets so happy, because she sees so much room for improvement. It’s such an inspiring attitude.

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Stephen  

I really like this Marie Kondo show. There’s something really satisfying about a hit tv show that celebrates owning LESS stuff, not more.

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Stephen  

@clinkingdog It's sort of a joke, but it's also a modified version of my ACTUAL triage process.

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jomc  

the sharing-links-to-things-you-haven't-read lobby is entirely supporting the writing-about-subjects-you-haven't-bothered-to-research industry

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Stephen  

In case you were curious about how I stay on top of my inbox, try this:
- Create folder called "Needs Follow-Up"
- Go to Inbox.
- Select all.
- Move all to "Needs Follow-Up."
- Inbox zero!

Tune in possibly never for tips on how to manage your "Needs Follow-Up" folder!!

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Stephen  

This is one of my favorite videos on the internet: Kaki King performing the opening monologue from Dune. youtube.com/watch?v=gP9P_EpGnw

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Stephen  

I ask this because I HAVE to imagine there is a space where sports nerds and Harry Potter nerds intersect and maximize the joy of over-analyzing both things.

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jomc  

the NYer profile of the publishing grifter (Dan Mallory) upset me the same way the Fyre fest docs did. Media/art/publishing institutions hand opportunities to people like that. Gatekeepers have been trained to eat up that kind of toxic charisma, while actual talent — modestly packaged — has very little chance of going anywhere.

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Stephen  

Can anyone point me to an actual defense of Quidditch's seemingly-pointlessly-complex rules?

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Stephen  

Another first-ever bird for me today!

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