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At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met there surprised me.
We are definitely closer to each other than we think. This is a great little essay.
Bill Bennett (Bill Bennett)Vox looks back at the ebook. It hasn’t made progress in a decade. Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences.
Katie Notopolous (BuzzFeed News)It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?
Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re)Are you a member of the IndieWeb Webring? Today I added a page for Terms of Use and Frequently Asked Questions!
People seem very focused on technological solutions to online communication (ActivityPub, Indieweb, this absurd BlueSky idea), but the hyperconversation approach is trying to prove that the problem is a human problem. If you read and listen to each other and try to respond thoughtfully and carefully - and try to
A few notes about differences between TiddlyWiki and Roam related to my daily note taking process. In October, 2018, I created a wiki at rudimentarylathe.org using the wonderful TiddlyWiki. Since then I've written just shy of 1,000 "tiddlers" there and it's been a totally pleasant experience. The original
Here are 12 prompts to help you find mathematics-related books for the coming year
- The player stands nice and relaxed with their hands down by their sides.
- The distance from the ground to their wrist is the correct length.
- The player should be able to hold the hurley at the top and the hurley should be just touching the ground.
If it is not possible to perform this test e.g. you are buying a present for someone a good rule of thumb is half their height.
If a player is between sizes it is still better to have the hurley too small rather than too big.
Malcolm Blaney (mblaney.xyz)i.haza.website currently offers free website hosting, with the only requirement being that you register a domain name! I reckon that's pretty good, but a few people have put me on to freenom.com, who also offer free domain registration. So now you can get a website set up for free! There's a few st...
7 years ago I wrote an article about speed reading. Turns out I made a lot of mistakes. Discover why speed reading might not be as useful as expected.
Most speed reading material always seem off. This one is reasonably measured and at least indicates a balance between speed and comprehension and retention. Seems like a dearth of references here. I can’t imagine that there isn’t more peer reviewed research on speed reading and comprehension.
Of course the memory portion can be handled relatively easily, but even that takes some work and repetition.
The best part of waking up is getting to read this incest oral history.
Kicks Condor (Kicks Condor)Fraidycat 1.0.7 is out (in the browser and on desktop), major performance improvements.
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Watch out: 2019 is sneaking in some last kicks to the crotch before it’s done. Overdrive, the leading provider of ebooks to public libraries, is being sold by Rakuten to the investment firm which “bought and bankrupted” Toys R Us.