Shortlist #4 – Holiday gifting edition
Holiday gifting, game nights in Colorado, and a sampler I definitely don't need but am having trouble resisting.
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I Went Mostly Offline and Then All This Happened ✦
i went mostly offline and then all this happened
Life is life-y
November was quite the month. To borrow a phrase from one of our closest friends and mentors, 'life is really life-y right now.'
Shortlist #3 – All over the place
This one's all over the place — dog longevity research (RIP Bender), the best mug cleaner on earth, and some very comforting books.
Every acorn is a paw at the door
On Sunday night at 8:55pm, our family lost our best friend. Our protector. Our adventure buddy. Our toddler-cleaner-upper. Our squirrel chaser.
Shortlist #2 – November grab bag
A November grab bag. Music, internet archaeology, optical illusions, and way too much candy.
Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder ✦
Every founder tells themselves a story about why they’re heading to the gold rush, but the executive coach I would eventually hire says there are really only two. Do you want to be rich, generating wealth in service of some further end? Or do you want to be king, with money a mere byproduct of trying to make the world the way you feel it should be?
Shortlist #1 – The inaugural round
The inaugural round of recommendations. A little bit of everything from Q3 2023.
The New Old Age ✦
The business consultant William Bridges argued that every transition involves a period of loss, then a period in the neutral zone, and then a period of rebirth. The loss that comes with retirement can be brutal. Some highly successful people mourn the life that gave them meaning and made them the center of the room. People in the neutral zone don’t yet know who the new version of themselves will be. They report feeling hollow, disoriented, empty.
Concise Explanations Accelerate Progress ✦
Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, reworked — or built upon.