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2024
- ↪ ✦ How Andrew Roberts writes his diary
- ↪ ★ On Writing: Short Enough to Finish, Long Enough to Matter
- ↪ ✦ ADHD and the Struggle With Internal Expectations
- ↪ ✦ ADHD and the Burden of Possessions
- ↪ ★ The Ron Swanson Approach: Birthdays for Introverts
- ↪ Your brain is not a computer
- ↪ ✦ 1920’s depression treatment: lots of milk and lots of nothing
- ↪ ✦ 1930’s Protective Foods
- ↪ ✦ Millenarianism
- ↪ ✦ Give me some citations please
- ↪ Late bedtimes might harm your mental health, even if you're a nightowl
- ↪ ✦ Asket and stupid marketing experiments
- ↪ ★ Big projects, small favours: Boost your work reputation by nailing the extremes
- ↪ ✦ Travel? Meh
- ↪ Your brain is not a computer
- ↪ Arun.is
- ↪ Film Review: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
- ↪ ★ The 19th Century's Lottery for Life
- ↪ 'Stop Acting Like You're Famous'
- ↪ ★ 4000 Weeks: Embracing Limits for a Fuller Life
- ↪ Little Links & Notes 8: Writing Hacks and the Pain of Existence
2023
- ↪ ✦ Using a Shell Script to Automate the Building and Deploying of My Hugo Blog
- ↪ ✦ Movie Review: Your Christmas Or Mine? (2022)
- ↪ ✦ Shane MacGowan Has Died
- ↪ Little Links & Notes 7
- ↪ Little Links & Notes 6
2022
- ↪ ★ A Stopped Watch
- ↪ ★ Lilacs and War
- ↪ ✦ Little Links & Notes 5
- ↪ ✦ Little Links & Notes 4
- ↪ ✦ Little Links & Notes
- ↪ Can’t Afford the Gas to Cook
- ↪ ✦ Tolkien, Orwell and Simple Living
- ↪ ✦ Little Links & Notes
- ↪ Little Links & Notes
- ↪ ★ Legs Look Weird
- ↪ ★ Low Birth Rates and High War Deaths
- ↪ ★ Economic Sanctions Cause Discomfort in a Very Comfortable Modern World
- ↪ ✦ Enablers of dirty Russian money in London + What's an 'Unexplained Wealth Order'?
- ↪ Just pay Russian soldiers to surrender?
- ↪ ✦ 'Why the Russians Are Struggling'
- ↪ ✦ Sigmund Freud aged 26 and 36
- ↪ ★ “Humanity is just not what I think it is.”
- ↪ ✦ Highly anticipated experiences are often underwhelming
- ↪ ✦ 'My first web3 webpage'
- ↪ ✦ February 26th, 2022
- ↪ ✦ A Trip to Windsor Castle
- ↪ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- ↪ ✦ Friday, February 18th, 2022
- ↪ ✦ 'Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer busts myths about how humans burn calories—and why'
- ↪ ✦ The Chronicles of the Rings
- ↪ ✦ Pencil drawing or satellite image?
- ↪ ✦ One third of all Swiss exports are drugs
- ↪ ✦ Wealth is money you don't spend
- ↪ ✦ WordPress -> Hugo part 2
- ↪ ✦ Stealing the word "Freedom"
- ↪ ✦ WordPress --> Hugo
- ↪ ★ Caffeine, late nights and book introductions
- ↪ ✦ Feminine exclamation
- ↪ ✦ Review: The Last Dance
- ↪ ✦ Review: The Power of the Dog (2021)
- ↪ Some links
- ↪ Attempting yoga for the first time
- ↪ ✦ Review: The Alpinist (2021)
- ↪ Some links
- ↪ ✦ CloudFront's first 1TB of bandwidth is free
- ↪ Some links
- ↪ ✦ Today's lunch
- ↪ ☞ 1994 Instagram
- ↪ ✦ Websites seem to have a different sort of downtime nowadays
- ↪ Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
- ↪ How To with John Wilson (Season 2)
- ↪ ☞ I only want TV shows that have ended, and ended well
- ↪ ✦ The North Water (Season 1)
- ↪ Brandon Taylor's Substack
- ↪ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
- ↪ The French Dispatch (2021)
- ↪ ✦ The Watch (2012)
- ↪ 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
- ↪ Black Knight (2001)
- ↪ The Economists 'daily briefing'
- ↪ Random webpages #1
2021
- ↪ ☞ "And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on evil.
- ↪ ☞ "Plotting over brandy." Terry Pratchett on evil.
- ↪ ☞ Confident and proud? Or arrogant?
- ↪ The Mandrake Plant
- ↪ Friday, September 17th, 2021
- ↪ Photos of Americans and their pets from 125 years ago
- ↪ ✦ Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
- ↪ 'Going private: Increasing numbers of Britons are abandoning the NHS and paying for medical treatment'
- ↪ ☞ Franz Liszt by Henri Lehmann
- ↪ ☞ You can own the 'speakers on wheels' rig from Mad Max: Fury Road!
- ↪ ✦ Michael Chapman has died
- ↪ 'Instead'
- ↪ ✦ Eat, sleep and feel better
- ↪ When to quit a bad book
- ↪ ✦ 'Anti-Aging: State of the Art'
- ↪ Effeminate looking men banned from Chinese television
- ↪ ✦ People keep on using 'gaslighting' incorrectly
- ↪ ✦ Will you get a day off work when the Queen dies? Is it a bank holiday?
- ↪ ☞ The actor who plays the Know-It-All kid in the Polar Express looks exactly how I'd expect him to look
- ↪ Cunningham's Law
- ↪ Salman Rushdie's next novel will be serialised on Substack
- ↪ ✦ 'China to Cleanse Online Content That ‘Bad-Mouths’ Its Economy'
- ↪ Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show explained. What can they film?
- ↪ ✦ 'The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.’
- ↪ 'UK truck driver shortage signals a broken labour market'
- ↪ ☞ Dickens house
- ↪ Landlord Lloyds
- ↪ 'Hospitality crisis deepens chef shortages'
- ↪ 'Ben Franklin’s bitter regret that he didn’t immunize his 4-year-old son against smallpox'
- ↪ Choose an expert
- ↪ ✦ There's always some dude inexplicably loving it
- ↪ ✦ Just invest
- ↪ Watched – Week 5, 2021
- ↪ ★ The Power of Netflix
- ↪ ✦ The Price of Whisky
- ↪ Watched – Week 4, 2021
- ↪ 'How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?'
- ↪ Open Top Sandwiches
- ↪ Outlaws
- ↪ ✦ Pay-as-You-Go Reading
- ↪ The Man Who Invited the World Over for Dinner
- ↪ ✦ January 26th, 2021
- ↪ ★ Dressing Gowns Are Stupid
- ↪ ✦ 'Their Noses Paid the Bills. Then COVID Took Their Sense of Smell'
- ↪ 'Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy'
- ↪ Brutalism
- ↪ ✦ The Parler U.S. Capitol Riot Video Archive
- ↪ 'Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump'
- ↪ ✦ Dr Martens To Go Public
- ↪ ☞ Snow and the iPhone