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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare – The New York Times

So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.

This is number 10,000 | Seth’s Blog

I’d write this blog even if no one read it, but the fact that you do, that you subscribe to it and share it, that’s my fuel.

Seth hits 10k.

For those wondering, this is number 6223 for me.

Tomorrow might feel better – annie’s blog

When something is off, imbalanced, scary, upsetting in some part of your life, the rest of your life will tilt toward that angle. Or at least will feel like it does.

Very good advice.

Finally getting the chance to listen to The Cure’s latest album in full and it’s fantastic. Both classic and modern at the same time.

Resliance (Resistance)

Her year in particular has had to build an unparalleled amount of resilience. They have had to pivot, and turn, and make the best of things, and adjust expectations again and again and again. They have remade, and reshaped, and tried again. They have given up on dreams, and found new ones, and then found them again.

And here’s the thing. This is normal for them. They don’t know any other way. This is the only way they know. This is their strength.

My wife writes beautifully about our daughter’s age group and their ability to survive and thrive.

derek guy: “Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen” — Bluesky

This is an excellent explainer on how these tariffs will directly affect, well, everything.

Blogging as a Gift | Jamie Thingelstad

I would encourage bloggers to not think about the individual post. Instead, think about the collection of writing, over weeks and years, as a body of work. It is a body of work that you are constantly adding to. Growing and improving. The individual post is but one breath. It comes and goes. But over the course of time this adds up. It is the cumulative action that creates something truly great.

Crucial Tracks 008: Annie Mueller

My soundtrack for the day.

My wife talks about organizing our bookshelves with egg cartons.