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2025
- ↪ ★ Are You Buying the Product – or the Praise?
- ↪ ★ Dwight Schrute Is My Life Coach
- ↪ Weeknotes – 1748 of 4175
- ↪ This Post Is Only 80% Finished
- ↪ The Cultural Fade of Rick and Morty
- ↪ Weeknotes – 1747 of 4175
- ↪ Weeknotes – 1744 of 4175
- ↪ Weeknotes – 1743 of 4175
- ↪ ★ Heroism in the Age of Dishwashers
- ↪ ★ The Wistfulness of Your 30s
- ↪ ★ You Don't Need More Content – You Need Better Attention
- ↪ ★ Dr Pepper
- ↪ Weeknotes (1742/4175)
- ↪ 'James Bond to be made by Amazon as British creators step back'
- ↪ Hunter S. Thompson died 20 years ago today
- ↪ Weeknotes – February 10-16, 2025
- ↪ '10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse'
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
- ↪ 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
- ↪ 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?'
- ↪ 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