# spending time — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover spending time. Page: Feed: --- ## [Success Secret: Finding People Who Disagree With You](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/success-secret-finding-people-who-7d9) _2026-08-17 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ Most of us prefer spending time with people who are like us. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211543903/e7bbef2b9c6f64d500763ebac586d62a.mp3) ## [Spending Time with Family](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/spending-time-with-family) _2026-08-17 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Spending time with family lowers stress, builds strong bonds, and helps everyone feel loved. Simple daily moments often matter most. ## [Spending Time with Parents](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/spending-time-with-parents) _2026-08-17 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Life gets busy, but time with them is irreplaceable. Here are some of the best short quotes to remind you to cherish those memories: ## [Going To School](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/going-to-school) _2026-08-16 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Going to School makes design-driven stories. Our stories are designed to equip young people with the dynamic skills they need to stay in school. ## [Play With Friends](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/play-with-friends) _2026-08-16 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ You can play many fun games with friends using zero equipment or props. Great options that rely only on imagination and conversation include hide and seek, picnic games etc. ## [Flower Garden](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/flower-garden) _2026-08-16 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ FLORAL GARDEN: THE ESTATE’S FLORAL GARDEN IS IN FULL BLOOM. ## [Focus On Your Energy](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/focus-on-your-energy-015) _2026-08-14 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ "Focusing on your energy" means deliberately directing your mental, emotional, and physical vitality toward a specific goal, person, or task. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211195397/5856d653c51f599cfb503efced3b1e99.mp3) ## [Focus On Your Energy](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/focus-on-your-energy) _2026-08-14 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ "Focusing on your energy" means deliberately directing your mental, emotional, and physical vitality toward a specific goal, person, or task. ## [Rise And Shine](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/rise-and-shine-d6d) _2026-08-14 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ "Rise And Shine" is a cheerful English phrase used to tell someone to wakeup, get out of bed, and start their day with energy. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211133269/b8b2811f7b745472c22d4f5d51320794.mp3) ## [Rise And Shine](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/rise-and-shine) _2026-08-14 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ "Rise And Shine" is a cheerful English phrase used to tell someone to wakeup, get out of bed, and start their day with energy. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Okubqh5yx8y1) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Natural World](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/natural-world-ae6) _2026-08-13 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Understanding the natural world involves exploring how its different components interact, how humans are a part of it, and the importance of preserving the biosphere. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211011092/2ab9a0f4d3dbe71acd70970946493551.mp3) ## [Natural World](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/natural-world) _2026-08-13 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Understanding the natural world involves exploring how its different components interact, how humans are a part of it, and the importance of preserving the biosphere. ## [Healthy Culture](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/healthy-culture-a60) _2026-08-12 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Healthy culture is the shared set of beliefs, values, customs, and behaviors that shape how a group of people understand, value, and manage health, illness, and well-being. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211011093/d1e2a937a5675cd8223472ba65f3c707.mp3) ## [Healthy Culture](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/healthy-culture-94a) _2026-08-12 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Healthy culture is the shared set of beliefs, values, customs, and behaviors that shape how a group of people understand, value, and manage health, illness, and well-being. ## [Enlightenment](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/enlightenment-6f9) _2026-08-12 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Many believe enlightened people walk among us in ordinary life without drawing attention to themselves or claiming any special title. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211011094/c4c4ee1ac20b011bfdd4c930f8673f47.mp3) ## [Enlightenment](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/enlightenment) _2026-08-12 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Many believe enlightened people walk among us in ordinary life without drawing attention to themselves or claiming any special title. ## [Strategic Thinking & Vision](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/strategic-thinking-and-vision-688) _2026-08-11 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Strategic thinking is the mental process of evolving future challenges and opportunities to make informed long-term decisions. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211011095/0d2a70fc55422dcbe40467392ad0a15a.mp3) ## [Strategic Thinking & Vision](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/strategic-thinking-and-vision) _2026-08-11 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ Strategic thinking is the mental process of evolving future challenges, opportunities to make informed long-term decisions. Vision is the desired future state or ultimate destination you aim to reach. ## [Leadership In Action](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/leadership-in-action-fd5) _2026-08-11 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ It is the practice of demonstrating accountability, empathy, and integrity such as taking responsibility for mistakes, mentoring team members, and aligning decisions with stated values. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211011096/3c58e9dec568a788b0d0100dc2e8de7d.mp3) ## [Leadership In Action](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/leadership-in-action) _2026-08-11 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ It is the practice of demonstrating accountability, empathy, and integrity such as taking responsibility for mistakes, mentoring team members, and aligning decisions with stated values. ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/jblo1TUW55eT) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [One Year of Office Hours: Lessons on Love and Friendship](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/one-year-of-office-hours-lessons-a95) _2026-08-10 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ In this special one-year anniversary episode of Office Hours, I'm joined by six young adults to discuss the modern crisis of meaning and why so many people feel disconnected despite having more ways to connect than ever. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210586281/61a336e28ef77cde6c544ef8eaf92d08.mp3) ## [Cultivate Kindness](https://bijibilla.substack.com/p/cultivate-kindness-172) _2026-08-10 · Bijibilla Rama Rao · Bijibilla’s Substack_ A few non-profit organizations and platforms that operate under the "Cultivate Kindness" name. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211011097/919fae174d947ac7fe6769517bcbbad2.mp3) ## [Why You Should Let People Help You More](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/why-you-should-let-people-help-you-9aa) _2026-08-03 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ We usually think generosity means helping other people. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209615022/e1ee7097a5dc0f1e5a7f6c97f34b9b58.mp3) ## [The Power of Sunlight: Protocols for Better Mood, Sleep & Happiness](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/the-power-of-sunlight-protocols-for-3a9) _2026-07-27 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ It's easy to assume that we'd be happier if we lived somewhere with more sunshine. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208670729/c52a789b130fb3c7ea5eae108a7c9b7f.mp3) ## [How Lying Sabotages Your Happiness](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/how-lying-sabotages-your-happiness-f73) _2026-07-20 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ Most people don't start with huge lies. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207762928/3bbf23318e0747761068b93770e24631.mp3) ## [Use Music to Change Your Brain and Get Happier](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/use-music-to-change-your-brain-and-fa0) _2026-07-13 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ There's a reason music has mattered to people for thousands of years. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207025743/01a14822144bf954ff7ae571b5b281a8.mp3) ## [BKABF, After AI, Data Centers, & personal news](https://aarati.substack.com/p/bkabf-after-ai-data-centers-and-personal) _2026-07-06 · Aarati Akkapeddi · Aarati’s Thoughts_ Dear Readers, ## [How to Stay in Love with Your Soul Mate, with Special Guest Ester Brooks](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/how-to-stay-in-love-with-your-soul-528) _2026-07-06 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ Thirty-five years ago, I somehow convinced an extraordinary woman to marry me. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207025744/a13092a7e0a0b1ffb78f3de17efe995a.mp3) ## [Abandoning (Some) Hesitation](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2026/07/02/Abandoning-%28Some%29-Hesitation) _2026-07-02 · goneaway · Team Murder_ Lately I've found myself spending more time hesitating about what or how to write about that aforementioned thing more so than just abandoning caution and rushing off on a quest to figure out what I actually think about a thing and to likely piss someone off. I have zero problems pissing people off on the not-actually-all-that-open internets or at least I used to rather enjoy it. As I said, that… ## [Why Success Never Feels Like Enough](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/why-success-never-feels-like-enough-b31) _2026-06-29 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ Do you find yourself chasing success, working long hours, doing far more than is required, and thinking about work all the time? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207025745/51a016913f8a39343093ade8ceb913cb.mp3) ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Tsbt2gjca1bb) _2026-06-29 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [How to Beat Burnout](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/how-to-beat-burnout-acd) _2026-06-22 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ If you feel emotionally exhausted, cynical about your work, or like you’re no longer enjoying parts of the job you used to, you may be experiencing burnout. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207025746/41d00025bbb19b1414de9a4c38ee40c1.mp3) ## [9 Rules for a Happier Vacation](https://drarthurbrooks.substack.com/p/9-rules-for-a-happier-vacation-e91) _2026-06-15 · Arthur Brooks · Arthur Brooks_ Many people come home from vacation feeling disappointed. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207025747/97b07a143514eb7ba9400459246127e7.mp3) ## [Transmediale 2026](https://aarati.substack.com/p/transmediale-2026) _2026-01-25 · Aarati Akkapeddi · Aarati’s Thoughts_ Headed to Berlin tomorrow (hopefully ❄️) ## [The Linkdump That Almost Wasn't and Then Was and Wasn't All Over Again](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2026/01/20/The-Linkdump-That-Almost-Wasn-t-and-Then-Was-and-Wasn-t-All-Over-Again) _2026-01-20 · goneaway · Team Murder_ I am sorta back after spending some time working through a couple of real life issues that made the idea of reading a bunch of hamfisted vitriol from the webs more tedious than I anticipated. For the umpteenth time, I'm basically rebuilding a band from scratch which is every bit as painful as I remember it being. Job hunting is bleak but, at least in this case, this misery indeed loves company and… ## [Here Are Some Things: A Pre-Holiday Linkdump](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/11/26/Here-Are-Some-Things%3A-A-Pre-Holiday-Linkdump) _2025-11-26 · goneaway · Team Murder_ I'm back-ish after working my way through what felt like a small scale nervous breakdown. Although I realize that the US economy is in utter disarray and IT, my unfortunate area, is in worse shape than I think it's ever been, this past month was especially soul eroding. I'm not completely sure that I'll ever work in the IT sector again which is unfortunate because a) I appreciate interesting… ## [You Can't Eat Ideology, Man](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/11/09/You-Can-t-Eat-Ideology%2C-Man) _2025-11-09 · goneaway · Team Murder_ It's Sunday so you're probably all bummed out by the fact that very little corporate 'content' is shilled on the final day of the weekend. Maybe you should take a gander at the video below because it is exceptionally well made. The idea that was resonant for me was the idea that cults don't necessarily need charismatic and coercive leaders and that even a national culture can transmit terrible… ## [Give Us This Day Our Irregular Linkdump](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/11/07/Give-Us-This-Day-Our-Irregular-Linkdump) _2025-11-07 · goneaway · Team Murder_ ot much to really contribute to the guilt-towards-an-imaginary-audience link dump for today. I spent the majority of the day completely away from my any computer to give my eyes and memory a little break from the mostly dead internet. I'm sure that you, hallucinatory reader that isn't a bot searching for non-existent Wordpress folders or an AI scraper hitting my robots.txt file a few thousand… ## [Fall updates](https://aarati.substack.com/p/fall-updates) _2025-11-07 · Aarati Akkapeddi · Aarati’s Thoughts_ Workshop at Wendy's Subway, Talk at University of Melbourne, Bees & more ## [A Decently Pleasing Day That Is Slightly More Than a Year Overdue](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/11/05/A-Decently-Pleasing-Day-That-Is-Slightly-More-Than-a-Year-Overdue) _2025-11-05 · goneaway · Team Murder_ Hey! Whatd'ya know. Good things happened yesterday. I'm a fan of Zohran Mamdani despite living on the opposite side of the country and holding memories of living in NYC in resentful memory as a place where everyone seemed to be a trust fund baby playground and the rest of us destined to eat dirt forever. I think that regardless of his lack of political experience as was recounted by every centrist… ## [Linkdump That Very Nearly Was a Pointless Rant About Pointless AI](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/11/01/Linkdump-That-Very-Nearly-Was-a-Pointless-Rant-About-Pointless-AI) _2025-11-01 · goneaway · Team Murder_ I started writing my nth arterial leak of a rant about how I was both tired of the rampant AI boosterism that composes most of the alleged technology journalism these days, my own impatience with it, and the oft ignore consequences of unqualified trust in our vaporware hallucinatory future . So, being sick of it and myself, I decided to just do a link dump instead and take out my rage in other… ## [Links Are Dumped, Tabs Are Closed](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/10/28/Links-Are-Dumped%2C-Tabs-Are-Closed) _2025-10-28 · goneaway · Team Murder_ Something that I definitely did not need to know about: Blue dogs roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone .No one knows why they're blue. No, not disturbing the slightest. I completely agree with Robert Reich's pronouncement that Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party . Watching the Democratic party propose things like endorsing anti-abortion candidates in red states is like… ## [Some Of the Reasons Why I Haven't Really Used My Macbook Pro Since Tahoe Which Are Mainly "Fuck This Bullshit."](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/10/27/Some-Of-the-Reasons-Why-I-Haven-t-Really-Used-My-Macbook-Pro-Since-Tahoe-Which-Are-Mainly-Fuck-This-Bullshit.) _2025-10-27 · goneaway · Team Murder_ My M1 Max Macbook Pro is relegated to the floor beneath my desk since the Tahoe 'upgrade'. Seriously, I played around for a couple of hours afterwards and shut that shit down. Wait, I think I fired it up for a job interview via Teams once since then but otherwise the powerful machine with 32G of RAM and a 1TB hard drive I bought a few years back for way too many dollars sits idle. I pulled the… ## [Linkdump: The Name of This Game is Exhaustion](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/10/27/Linkdump%3A-The-Name-of-This-Game-is-Exhaustion) _2025-10-27 · goneaway · Team Murder_ Hoo boy. Maybe things have utterly changed but I'm hard pressed to see the point in Microsoft horse before the cart-ing yet another animated character . In my somewhat limited experiment, I've found Copilot something to disable as soon as humanly possible and allows end users to go on crazy goose chases to avoid knowing where any of their files and applications actually live. Super useful for me… ## [Another Dump of Links Because Vivaldi Can Only Take So Much](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/10/19/Another-Dump-of-Links-Because-Vivaldi-Can-Only-Take-So-Much) _2025-10-19 · goneaway · Team Murder_ The course mentioned in the introduction to this interview, The History of Fake News From the Flood to the Apocalypse, piqued my interest in the rest of the article about Bibliotheca Fictive Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery and the fine art of literary forgery . I love and am deeply jealous of LitBox's book vending machines in D.C . This is a great example of ways to route around the… ## [I Guess You're The CEO For Now. Go Ahead and Drive The Company Into the Ground](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/10/17/I-Guess-You-re-The-CEO-For-Now.-Go-Ahead-and-Drive-The-Company-Into-the-Ground) _2025-10-17 · goneaway · Team Murder_ There's that antique yet true belief that the CEO is typically the dumbest and most out of touch member of any payroll. In my imagination, most CEOs are effectively saved from interacting with the vox populi by a human shield of assistants and yes men who suck up enough to the assistant layer to have unscheduled access to the 63 year old white men that lead most corporations. Well, if you ever… ## [Too Many Tabs, Must Resort To LinkDump](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/10/16/Too-Many-Tabs%2C-Must-Resort-To-LinkDump) _2025-10-16 · goneaway · Team Murder_ I'm sorta taking a day off from job seeking which means that I'm puttering around the web and playing TurtleWow Mysteries of Azeroth . Here are some things that were interesting at least to me. This is something that I wish I knew about a couple years ago: Docker Management Command Cheat Sheet as I don't have any real use for Docker containers and lord knows that developers seem to think that… ## [But You Don't Post Much About Technology These Days](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/10/15/But-You-Don-t-Post-Much-About-Technology-These-Days) _2025-10-15 · goneaway · Team Murder_ This is largely true. I don't write much about technology because, for the most part, technology as a subject is pretty fucking boring and has been for the last 4 years or so. The reason for my own personal tedium trap when talking about tech is that term becoming synonymous with AI and AI is a speculative shit show and likely always will be at least until the bubble ultimately pops and most of… ## [Wherein A Bunch of Links Get Dumped](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/09/23/Wherein-A-Bunch-of-Links-Get-Dumped) _2025-09-23 · goneaway · Team Murder_ This is for my own memory as much as it is for anyone else. These are things I've seen recently (like the past 18 hours) that I thought were worthy of note. Cloudflare released a new RPC system called Cap'n Web . I understand some of the underlying principles that governed its creation but some folks are pretty fucking excited about it. That said, fuck Javascript. Apple released a new version of… ## [Hello Again From The Bombed Out Shell That I Call Mine](https://teammurder.com/index.php?post/2025/09/23/Hello-Again-From-The-Bombed-Out-Shell-That-I-Call-Mine) _2025-09-23 · goneaway · Team Murder_ What I intended to do was migrate the old version of this site over to a new host but that didn't end up working out so well. After being testy about all of the Wordpress import/export options completely and utterly failing me without a single useful error, I decided to just scrap everything and start anew. This will be the 3rd completely fresh start for Team Murder which I think has existed in… ## [Booksmart Fair, Decentering Ethics: AI Art as Method](https://aarati.substack.com/p/booksmart-fair-decentering-ethics) _2025-09-03 · Aarati Akkapeddi · Aarati’s Thoughts_ book launch & chapter published