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🧁 It's My Birthday, So Ask Me Anything!
I'm all ears! An open call to ask questions about ancient history, parenting, startups, productivity methods, or whatever.
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🌠 Reflections on Sharpening Your Mind
Obsidian is a bootstrapped company with a new(ish, at this point) slogan that I love.
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🎓 On leadership and dealing with the enemy
A review of the nonfiction book 'Tyrants of Syracuse' by Jeff Champion.
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📚 Cognitive Catalysts: Lists, Learning, & Leverage
Micro reviews of nonfiction I read recently. On ancient memes, Ghana's legacy, ambitious goals, better search engines & improved smartphone habits.
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🎓 On Sacrifice: the real kind, with corpses
An investigation of historic rituals involving the killing of humans. Why is this even a thing?
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📚 Scavengers, Shipwrecks, & Surcharges: 7 Insights to Prompt (our) Writing
A weird fact or insight for every day of (the first week of) November, just in time for National Novel Writing Month... or Essay Camp 👀
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🌲 On the Difficulty of Being Pithy
Bylines vs clever pitches, and remembering to share ideas that are difficult to sum up.
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🎓 Practical Religion: Ancient Rituals as 'Vaccination'
Many religious rituals make practical sense. And the ancients had some pretty practical ways of handling plagues.
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🌲 Takeaways on efficiency, passive learning, & optimization
Thoughts on how to take notes that actually matter.
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💚 Quick Update, + How Can I Help You?
An attempt to do right by people who financially supported me.
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📚 Reading Roundup: On Intellectual Endurance
Micro reviews of nonfiction I read recently. On the value of grit, adaptation, play, and making time to learn. Plus: Vikings!
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🏄‍♀️ State of the Eleanor 03
I had a baby. The Obsidian ecosystem has evolved. Find out what that means for the Obsidian Iceberg 👀
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