home scene
a royal pain to set up this trampoline... but an endless supply of fun
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virtue over fortune in investing and other pastimes
since you can't help yourself, then let's use the word "virtue" for the disciplined application of your method, and the word "fortune" for the outcome of your "investments."
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what we talk about when we talk about correlation
in day-to-day meetings and coffee chats, no big deal, but when it comes to making investing or hedging decisions, beware.
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making photos look old
there's something endearing about spending a couple thousand dollars on a brand new full-frame camera to then process the heck out of the photos to make them look as if they were taken with a $15 disposable film toy
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the day I finished The Rambler
in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.
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the victim card on Christmas Eve
for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...
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beware the ambition of petty accomplishments
the ambition of petty accomplishments, in which we believe we’re advancing, but a wiser perspective offers the opposite diagnosis.
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knocked down to the essentials
the environment is driving me, subconsciously, to choose the effective over the fancy.
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my favorite pants that some people hate
The hostility is aimed at the second edition of the Stretch Zions because there were changes in the fabric and the button.
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the tools were already there
The tools have already been here. The brain connects ideas, not Obsidian.
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marketing for the foolish
... for the impressionable, the young, the foolish, for humanity... It’s not the absurdity of the argument that I find strident, but that it comes veiled as a tautology.
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the switch to full frame
it is known that all photography hobbyists will inevitably end up purchasing a full frame camera. Digital first and, later perhaps, film.
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