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A List Apart still has one of the most calm and readable websites on the Internet. It is perfect and it should never change.

Well said, this resonates. I was also there for the plague and for the gate opening on Mal'Ganis. I also remember a few events where someone had kited or teleported world bosses back to Orgrimmar and Stormwind. Absolute mayhem.

Lots of fun, lots of memories, lots of people I met during those years who are still in my life today.

Good business fundamentals?

I've been fasting regularly for many, many years. I usually eat once a day, sometimes twice a day based on activity or training goals. Protein is high on all days, carbs lower on non-training days, fats higher on non-training days, carbs higher on training days, fats lower on training days.

I never know what to make of "the science" of fasting, it doesn't matter to me. I just know that fasting makes me feel good. The body can adapt to all sorts of things, mine has adapted well to fasting. I'm fit and healthy and mobile and I'm certain that fasting has played a role in my overall good health. But it's not for everyone.

I started fasting for one reason: it felt gross to eat all day. It felt gross to always have something in my stomach, to always be digesting something, to always be thinking about food. Fasting made me feel lighter, sharper, and more capable, so I stuck with it.

If there's one thing I've learned over the years it's that "nutrition" is simply eating the foods you respond well to. That's it. Forget the diets and the programs and the plans. Pay attention to what you eat and how it makes you feel, adjust accordingly. Same thing with training and fitness. It's less about following a specific routine, and more about building intuition so that you are training in a way that develops the type of body you want, that expresses your ideal of strength, endurance, capacity, etc. in a way that feels natural to you.

I recently purchased this complete collection of Orwell's essays, columns, and reviews, highly recommended:

https://godine.com/book/collected-essays-journalism-and-lett...

Also, the FT's website is great. Plain and readable Georgia for body text, and their cookies page offers a simple and clear design for allowing or blocking advertising cookies. What a surprise to see a page where there's no confusion about whether the toggle button is on or off.

https://www.ft.com/preferences/manage-cookies

Gabies system for remembering passwords

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBnwHLMqtHWdgvhLyzcLtfrg...

If anyone hasn't read The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, I'd highly recommend it. There are a few thoughtful chapters on relationships, love, marriage, sex, etc. that are worth reading.

Thanks for posting this, great episode.

Take everything your senior but not executive direct reports write up at your request, make a copy of the docs, then share the copies with your executive peers as if they are your own words and ideas. When your direct reports ask for an update on the project, or want to know why no one has commented or engaged on the write-ups they created, ignore them.

Ask your direct report to do all of the prep work for a critical project that they are most qualified to run and oversee, ask them to share the pre-reads with a decision making group, invite them to the kick-off meeting, tell them five minutes before the meeting starts not to say a word during the meeting, or else.

Show up 20 minutes late to a 30 minute meeting, then spend the next 20 minute talking at the group, allow for no interruptions, keep everyone over time.

> It is my hope that the revelations we unearth through investigations of the Non-Human Reverse Engineering Programs I have reported will act as an ontological (earth-shattering) shock, a catalyst for a global reassessment of our priorities. As we move forward on this path, we might be poised to enable extraordinary technological progress in a future where our civilization surpasses the current state-of-the-art in propulsion, material science, energy production and storage.

This is quite a statement. I honestly don't know what to make of the whole situation.

My levels of skepticism remain high.

Not open source but I'd highly recommend: https://usefathom.com/

I want to believe.

Nice! I really like the GT selections, great typefaces.

Indeed, but I don't think PayPal is entirely sour. I've used the product at multiple companies and have only had good experiences.

Timely post:

https://world.hey.com/jason/who-do-you-do-business-with-47c6...

I don't know but I love typography so here are some font recommendations for anyone who stumbles on this thread!

Lyon Text: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/lyon_text

GT Alpina: https://www.grillitype.com/typeface/gt-alpina

Blanco: https://www.fostertype.com/retail-type/blanco

Bridge Text: https://www.typemates.com/fonts/bridge-text

Arnhem: https://www.typeby.com/fonts/arnhem

Heldane: https://klim.co.nz/retail-fonts/heldane-text/

Ivar Text: https://lettersfromsweden.se/font/ivar-text/

Gliko Modern: http://r-typography.com/19_gliko-modern/

Rialto Piccolo: https://fontstand.com/fonts/rialto-piccolo-df

Concourse: https://practicaltypography.com/concourse.html

Quadraat: https://www.typeby.com/fonts/quadraat

Suisse: https://www.swisstypefaces.com/fonts/suisse/

Terza Reader: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/terza/terza_reader

Register: https://www.a2-type.co.uk/register

And:

https://typefoundry.directory/

Makes me think of this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1554205020907720704?lang=en

Every time the personal website thing comes up, I think about all the other times it has come up, and I think about these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785236

I love this, and I cook the same way, tasting and figuring things out as I go. For me, I just don't like following directions and templates—whether it's a recipe or a workout program, I value the "feeling" and intuition and will always lean in the direction that allows me to develop those sensibilities.

I think the site looks great and I'd just keep adding to it!

You might like this book: Tom Colicchio, Think Like a Chef

Your tomato and egg recipe made me think of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBNmB5LEEFg

Some intuition at work!

I'm seeing the same behavior, wasn't like this yesterday. Also, yesterday I noticed they removed the search feature in the top-right corner for logged-out users. Previously I could search for a specific person, click their profile, and view their feed. Instead of search, there were "New to Twitter?" prompts to sign up or sign in, no search was visible.

I've never had a Twitter account and I really don't want one. But I do check the NWS (National Weather Service) local accounts for updates on severe weather, and now those accounts are behind an auth wall and I can't see anything at all. I wish they'd make an exception for public service accounts (NWS, fire, police, government) and make them visible to everyone.

Using the iPad Pro as my main computer (2019)

https://hicks.design/journal/using-the-ipad-pro-as-my-main-c...

iPad Pro as Computer - one year on (2020)

https://hicks.design/journal/ipad-pro-as-computer-one-year-o...

Also, Gabies system for remembering passwords:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBnwHLMqtHWdgvhLyzcLtfrg...

That's a lot of money.

One thing I've been thinking about: it's only a matter of time before your friends load an AI assistant on their phone, and it devours every text message you have ever sent to that person, every photo you've shared together, every record of an in-person meeting. This makes me really uncomfortable.

If you too think most modern architecture and art is ugly, you might enjoy:

Roger Scruton - Why Beauty Matters (2009)

https://vimeo.com/549715999

I'm not a fan of Le Corbusier or van der Rohe—too cold and sterile—but I am fond of Frank Lloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Ray Kappe.

Highly recommend GMB programs for strength and mobility work:

https://gmb.io/programs/

https://gmb.io/e/

Two responses:

First, this piece makes me think of The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom. Highly recommended, it's more relevant than ever.

Second, I am reminded of these passages from Justin E.H. Smith:

> Yet the new social mores are not going to last forever either, and sooner or later the young people who memory-holed so many of the things I once thought would last forever are going to have to begin again the work of mining the past for tried-and-true moral sensibilities with the suppleness and vigor to help them navigate through this objectively problematic world, and to thrive. We might be depressed, but we are not without purpose: our purpose is preservation. The bubble of “false representation” is going to burst sooner or later, and when it does the value of our investment in old-style commodities will become clear again.

And:

> I have become convinced that the best way to respond to the threats posed by new technologies to the conventions of literacy that we continue to strive to maintain is to return to the practices of knowledge transmission that preceded literacy altogether and that characterized oral cultures: namely, education should involve the rote internalization of texts. Make kids memorize epic poetry, or the Bible, or King Lear, or the Upanishads, through recitation, adding a few lines each day over the course of several years. They do not even need to see the texts in written form, but only to hear them and speak them. Eventually one might make them compose epic poetry in their heads, too, like Solzhenitsyn biding his time in the Gulag by reverting to oral literature when his writing implements had been taken away, adding a few lines each day, accreting a world inside of himself.

Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36473217