Defensive: 1. Sign yourself and your family up to a service like DeleteMe that will pull your name, email, address, etc off as many public databases as possible: joindeleteme.com/refer?coupon...

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Tech guy Paul Graham wrote about the conflict between "maker" & "manager" schedules in 2009. Not a big fan of his proto-techbro writings, but I think many of us recognise the cost of constantly switching between tasks, whatever field we work in. www.paulgraham.com/makersschedu...

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"Don't Be a Sucker" by the US War Department (1947) The film follows a young American, drawn in by a speaker promising an end to jobs for minorities and removing foreigners. He encounters a Hungarian professor who explains this is how Nazis grab power for themselves. archive.org/details/Dont...

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Ukraine is bombing state owned vodka distilleries. That may do more to create civil unrest in the famously alcohol addicted Russian territories than the almost 700k soldiers dead in that war tbh Russian men die young on average due to alcohol. It’s shocking the statistics.

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'Many novelists have been approached by someone convinced that they have a great idea for a novel, which they'll share for fifty-fifty of the proceeds, inadvertently revealing that they think formulating sentences is a nuisance rather than a fundamental part of storytelling in prose.' Ted Chiang

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