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If I had chosen this link randomly, you might have been better off. A great article on random decisions.
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If I had chosen this link randomly, you might have been better off. A great article on random decisions.
A monkey bra, a mask and noise canceling headphones – follow this advice and you become the most insufferable air traveller ever.
This is probably the most depressing and at the same time most motivating visualisation I’ve seen for a long time. What you’re looking at is the (slightly above) average human lifespan in weeks, ready to be ticked off. So little time, then again: so much to do with it.
«Our most beautiful buildings must be in our poorest areas.» This is one of the key assumptions that helped turn Medellín from Colombia’s deadly capital of cocaine into a model for urbanism in merely two decades. Next City takes a close look at how the transformation was enabled – and what its drawbacks are. Francis Fukuyama called Medellín’s story «half a miracle», it sure makes for a great read.
My friends have good ideas: Thierry has stopped complaining for a month. A survivor’s tale.
A wonderful, personal essay by Jonathan Harris (whose work I’ve featured in the Weekly Filet before) on living in chapters and getting stuck.
You will never look at your list of priorities the same way. Why Prioritized Feature Lists Can Be Poisonous.
I bet that you’re using Google for quite a number of searches that Wolfram Alpha does a much better job at. This list is a very helpful introduction to what Wolfram Alpha is capable of.
Count me in. Here’s the proposal for a «get-rid-of-crap-every-month club», that encourages you to give away possessions you don’t really need. You get an empty box with a paid return label every month, that screams at you: Fill me with crap. Brilliant.
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