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Spending Money For Maximum Return: Stop Buying Things. Start Buying Back Your Life. The hierarchy of high ROI spending. https://www.beautyofsaas.com/p/spending-money-for-maximum-return-buying-things

The Analog Revival Did Not Take Place

As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other people. But you can’t just walk around and be visible on the internet—for anyone to see you, you have to act.

https://eugenehealey.substack.com/p/the-analog-revival-did-not-take-place

unkind truths vs kind lies

still trying to figure out my book rating system cause i feel like i haven’t been consistent in my ratings always hesitant to give 5/5 because 100% feels like a book has to be perfect, but it doesn’t have to truly be as long as it made me feel attached/ have great takeaways i think the writer has done a great job that deserves a 5/5 won’t be the technical reviewer that reviews strictly down to rubrics like tempo and structure

[2026 NYR Reading Goal] Total: 10/15 - Fiction: 4/8 - Non-fiction: 7/7 ✅ 1. The Diary of A CEO - link 2. Purple Cow - link 3. Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - link 4. This is Marketing - link 5. Ogilvy on Advertising - link 6. The Creative Act - link 7. The Tipping Point - link 8. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - link 9. Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts - link 10. The Twins of Auschwitz - link 11. Flowers For Algernon - link

[BR] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes community rec. started this book without knowing what it was about or what to expect. finished this on my flight earlier and it left me nonverbal for a good few minutes after the last page. i started to get really sad toward the end as charlie regressed and i don’t even know how to describe how i felt reading. the author wrote so well such that you could feel the subtle regressions in each report, from complex sentences to a small spelling errors to simple sentences that are badly spelt. when charlie said “why me?” as he regressed i just felt terrible tldr; this book is about a peek into the life and feelings of a mentally disabled adult (kid) in their own words if they could articulate and process well main takeaway: - my greatest learning in a way is that mentally disabled people are still humans and society should treat them with the same amount of respect, despite their flaws. - high intelligence is not necessarily a good thing 5/5 classic banger

Local Pop is rising, while KPOP and Western Pop is on a decline. https://x.com/okaythenfuture/status/2051155628312481877?s=20

why plastic surgery is destroying Korea https://youtu.be/JiEFDJxGx2s?si=gczmvyOlW9s5MeLv

luck https://x.com/digiii/status/2042848499469873173?s=20

Why Mental Health Awareness Can Harm: Converging Explanations for a Societal Problem

The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.

research paper https://x.com/minzlicht/status/2049493735453389276?s=20

many countries are facing the issue of a declining TFR if you could implement policies to reverse this trend, what would you do?

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