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I've never asked myself before if it's a common thing all around the world, but in Italy, each school year, kids buy a diary to write in. I don't think I've ever seen one outside of Italy, or maybe I just haven't looked for them now that...
This article by Monevator contributor Longshore Drift explains how he is recovering from a passive concentration problem. Passive investing using world trackers has served me pretty well. It quietly told me to set aside both my...
Last autumn Mr BW replaced the old fence that forms the top edge of our property. He scattered some surplus...
I think I've been playing video games wrong my whole life. But I also think a lot of other people have too. I worry that the industry's relentless march towards prettier, more graphically sophisticated games is taking us away from the...
Industrial civilization was built on an extraordinary inheritance of cheap, abundant fossil fuels. That energy surplus made it possible to construct vast networks of infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, and global trade. But...
Most businesses should not start with a grand AI transformation plan. They should start with one boring workflow. That sounds less exciting than “deploying an AI workforce,” but it is usually the difference between an agent your team...
Another day, another attempt by Congress to pass an age verification mandate, another useful idiot in the HackerNews comments section saying “okay but we have to protect the children”. Stop lying. This isn’t about protecting the...
My brother is eight years old in this photograph. He’s kneeling in our front yard in South Bend, late in the summer of 1976, squinting into the sun. His jeans have tan patches on the knees. His tan tank top has brown piping around the...
Another nice day. Raked weeds from off gravel path and did some more hoeing round red footpath. Not a lot in to burn. Asked Ray for some new edging shears.
When a heroin addict unknowingly overdoses on fentanyl, who do you blame?One school of thought blames the user. They made an irresponsible choice, and this was the consequence of their action—but they may not have had full control over...
Outside The Miners Arms they’re digging up the street again for ‘essential public works’. Last week they were installing piping for moonshine on tap, the month before cable radio so people could listen to the BBC Light Programme in areas...
This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2026”. I have already put together a list of new historical fiction to look out for in the second half...
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A palate cleanser after the poor book I just finished. I thought to myself who is the best writer, and in my opinion it has to be graham greene, so I picked one of his I’d not read before. It was of course superbly written. One of what...
I came to Stanford University in 1981. After being in the Graduate School of Education for five years, teaching four courses each year, advising about 20 students annually, and doing research on the history of classroom teaching and...