Interesting Links
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Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden: a poem and a painting about suffering in plain sight
The Productivity Blocker: An extension that blocks productive websites (like Slack, Duolingo and Linkedin) so you can relax.
Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic: Scientists have found and filmed one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks 107 years after it sank.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
Essays
Diagnose Your Current Relationship Problems With These Key
How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal? - The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?: It sadly resonated with the mindset of people in my home city too.
I am reading Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks, and find it very insightful about embracing our limits and cracking the myth that we can do everything we want/need to do. I find his other essays helpful and practical too.
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket: To be honest, at this point my to read pile looks more like a sink than bucket.
How to make writing less hard
What if you never sort your life out? The reality is that it's a "when", not an "if"
Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden: a poem and a painting about suffering in plain sight
The Productivity Blocker: An extension that blocks productive websites (like Slack, Duolingo and Linkedin) so you can relax.
Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic: Scientists have found and filmed one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks 107 years after it sank.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
Essays
Diagnose Your Current Relationship Problems With These Key
How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal? - The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?: It sadly resonated with the mindset of people in my home city too.
I am reading Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks, and find it very insightful about embracing our limits and cracking the myth that we can do everything we want/need to do. I find his other essays helpful and practical too.
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket: To be honest, at this point my to read pile looks more like a sink than bucket.
How to make writing less hard
What if you never sort your life out? The reality is that it's a "when", not an "if"
