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Notes on adopting a dog
It’s been three weeks since my wife and I adopted our dog. This post is intentionally brief: Our walks started off far too ambitious. Our dog needed more time to get used to our neighborhood, as well as the sounds of the city. (I had no idea how loud downtown Toronto was!) I used to…
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Find diverse sources of happiness
There are many aspects to life. When you let one of these aspects dominate the rest—say, a job, a relationship, a professional goal, or a vocation—you also tie your happiness to it. Whenever it inevitably fluctuates, so will your sense of well-being. A reliable way to create a life is to shrink the influence of…
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Memories before Liquid Glass
When I was a young boy, I saw Windows XP for the first time and thought it looked really nice. My family had an old beige desktop computer with Windows 98, so I spent many months asking my parents to buy the new Windows XP OS. They acquiesced at some point, and my computer’s interface…
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The freedom of generosity
A friend of mine practices two hobbies: photography and tennis. He recently found a way to blend them together by volunteering to take photos of local tennis clubs and tournaments. He could probably get paid a small fee, of course, but then he would be taking on a client. He would feel obligated to take…
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Venture mindset
Less than a year after introducing its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas to the world, OpenAI recently shut it down. My guess is the team decided to make a bet on building an AI browser, but the product wasn’t really working, and Google Chrome proved to be a strong incumbent. That resulted in a decision to…
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Extra creative
The team at Dinamo Typefaces write a fun newsletter. In the latest issue, their team introduced an updated version of their font, Gravity. In the release notes, you’ll find a 10-page original manga, hand drawn by graphic designer Melanie Schmidt. She writes, “Every line was refined digitally before I switched to analogue for the shading,…