Clean your plate was a food-waste-reduction strategy from Hoover, to help the USA win WWII, and other ideas you may have taken on without thinking about it.
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How hard can it be to cancel?
Taking dark patterns to an extreme, Amazon internal documents show they called their complex Prime cancellation process Iliad.
the one hundred pages strategy
The One Hundred Pages Strategy talks about how to adjust your day to create the greatest possible time for reading. It’s written in clear prose, but if you’d like it in pseudo-diagram form, I’ve made an attempt.
internet project milestones
Noah Kalina is still taking photos of himself every day. He’s been doing that for 25 years.
Crossing the river
Already lost to me is the LinkedIn post that brought this to my attention, but searching for that story, I found an article that told some more of the background. https://mindmatters.ai/2024/05/a-man-a-boat-and-a-goat-and-a-chatbot/ The link between the original post and the classic non-fiction work “Gödel Escher Bach” is the icing on the cake. You’re familiar with the …
competitive hotdog eating
Some of the horrors that professional hot dog eaters put themselves through. [via flowing data]
Escherian stairwell
Learning about the legendary Escherian Stairwell at RIT. [via farnam street brain food]
clickbait and netflix
Compelling argument on Slate about Netflix heading the way of all social sites as they follow the way of all sites that are seeking to monetise attention.
average face
Noah Kalina has been taking a photo of his face every day for over 20 years. Here is a rolling average of these photos, shown at 2 months per second. It’s a bit of a confronting demonstration of the passage of time.
working from near home
Sydney is again in lock-down (or as we’re calling it, a stay-at-home order), so this article on working from near home by Cal Newport is a little further in the future. After over a year of working mostly outside the office, if anything, it has brought me greater appreciation of the workspaces that I’ve had …