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The best ones stay true to their format and you can easily tell. A consistent experience matters more than the gap between issues. Oh and my five podcast recommendations for now.
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Get thee to a Library?
What is it good for? Potentially quite a lot of we get it right and maybe we must. At least we have to be able to access the source documents to vet what large language models throw back at us.
Businesses hate you for your privacy safeguards (but they won't tell you)
As an experiment, try making a handful of little online purchases while behind a strong VPN and using a privacy enhanced browser and see how well it goes.
A point by point cheat sheet about preparing a review lecture
There is not a wrong or a right way to do this but after a few decades this is what I have found to work best for me.
Frantic might not fix it?
Reflections on the Get-it-done-Guy theme
Books on change, two of them
This might be the only review out there contrasting One Fine Day (1947) and Broken Light (2023). Could be a good thing. Let me know.
'TikTok' goes the Clockwork Orange
Do we reposition for 2025 and if so, how? Away from doomscrolling and into the good stuff.
Does the past leave you?
In Japan it doesn't and Andrew Haigh gets it spot on in All of Us Strangers
Are our archetypes our worst enemies?
On 2020s gender stereotypes that fit nobody
You're not your inbox
Be honest, do you control your e-mail flow or does it control you? Tips here. No need for ad hoc software or services - the sender is what matters.
Anthony Horowitz? Meet Susan Stebbing
"It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to our own prejudices and personal desires" (Stebbing)
What is it about Oxford then?
The occasional substack is back and who remembers John Fowles?
Hey Orpheus, let's not look back now
Noticed how good things of the past leave you easily while the bad stuff remains fresh in the memory?
Why is the Police Procedural so popular?
Fifty years after Nineteen Red Roses
Yuleblog of terrible photography
Manual and raw is cool, isn't it? Or is it?
Coming soon
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