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Dear readers, I am still in the middle of a solid two months of non-stop travel. As a result, I am again unable to write an original Substack piece this week, so instead I thought I would share with you a very rare and special document that I have had in my possession for some time now.

If you do a Google search for ‘meditation’, you might find results like this: ‘Meditation Completely Changed My Life’ ‘How meditation can change your life and mind’ ‘How meditation changes the brain’ Do a bit more digging, and you might find this article

Plus: international animation news.

“Our research indicates that everybody loves Internet Explorer toolbars,” stated Linux Foundation Executive Director, Jim Zemlin.

It's sort of like a census... except just for Computer Nerds. And also not all that much like a census.

“This is a major win for the burgeoning ‘artificially make people seem intelligent’ industry,” stated ChatGPT.

“It was created by an Artificial Intelligence. So it’s definitely not plagiarism or anything.”

"This is what GitHub was created for," says CEO.

15 life, business, and creativity lessons from legendary comedian Bill Burr.

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Metabolism Matters - Eating, Exercise, and Evolution Impact Our Energy Burn

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Be careful what you wish for.

(Actually asking)

Scott Alexander points out that the media, from The New York Times to Infowars, very rarely lies explicitly and directly. Alas, the media often misleads. It implies and insinuates that which is not. It abuses the language. It selectively omits. It is highly motivated by partisanship and ideology and its own interests. It does not do or understand the research. It is terrible at interpreting science. It confuses cause and effect. It purports to use technically accurate data to show, even prove, conclusions known to be false, in ways that are designed to mislead and obviously in bad faith.

some riffing on a tweet

Plus: animation news.

This newsletter is dedicated to the non-stop chaos of air travel in America last month—2,268 flights canceled smack dab in the middle of the holidays, including the flights of my parents’ and my in-law’s parents, which of course meant that all four of their bags wandered aimlessly around the country for days. I’ve always been inspired by how comically rotten it is to fly these days, and I took this fiasco as a sign from above to finally pay my respects.

More 8-Bit fun than you can shake a stick at.

Because Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and even Linux... are addicted to the Internet.

Plus: animation news worldwide.

Mastering LPA Terms with Examples & Explanations—Plus an Updated Term Sheet!

On Italian leather, ‘90s shopping malls, and scars

You won't find a more obvious example of bad science from the U.S. government

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Shirley Jackson's ominous foreboding; thought stickiness; living rent-free in your head; Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom; introspection; meaning

Extreme stress significantly impairs memory, mood, and cognition in combat soldiers

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The Adani conglomerate, the business group most closely associated with Modi’s India, is under serious attack in the stock market, following a damning report by researchers at Hindenburg the outfit that specializes in short-selling overhyped tech stocks.

On the consequences of policy-based evidence in climate politics

What rough beasts will emerge from the discourse this year to occupy brain-space?

Looking at how LOL deploys machine learning models with Ian Schweer - ML/MLOps Engineer @ Riot Games

What you (yes, you) can do to move humanity forward

I was a guest on Lenny’s Podcast which was so much fun. Check out the episode! This post will explore three popular models for product teams. Sprint, Story, and Backlog-Centric Team and Mission-Centric Engineer-Centric (with Rockstar PMs) Sprint, Story, and Backlog-Centric

“In some periods they explain practically all major events, and in most periods they explain a great deal … But even greater than the causal is the symptomatic significance of fiscal history. The spirit of the people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare … all this and more is written in fiscal history. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.”

Read Max takes on 2023's hot tech

On mental health and learning from your regrets