Did you know that if you have a kid in 4th grade they can get a pass to get your whole family into one of our many National Parks for free, right? It’s called Every Kid in a Park and it’s why my family is visiting as many as we can this year.
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If you too are a “circler” you know what I mean. We study the matter from various perspectives and look for the best approach and for strong and weak spots. We are driven by a desire to get it right and do not like to take the castle by rushing into the moat.
(Me: {nods head and raises hand})
Really great piece about how Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway became an “expert-generalist” and how one might go about becoming one too.
Experiments into other ways: The great wall of money
Experiments into other ways: The great wall of money
Take what you need, leave what you don’t…
A fascinating experiment in community and kindness. (via Boing Boing)
On Kottke, a selfish argument for making the world a better place. Some food for thought. That said, heavy on the argument but not on solutions (which are far, far, more difficult for many complex reasons).
A New View of The Moon. Lovely. Makes me wish I knew someone with that nice of a telescope.
Alan Pike recommends making your inbox Human-Only as a path to email sanity. Some good ideas. I’ve done this for years. My personal account is self hosted. All non-human email goes to a Gmail account I only use for that purpose. It’s likely why I love email.
Kottke.org is 20 years old today. I discovered him in the Ocil8 days, when he was a local designer here in the Twin Cities. So, I’ve been following Jason’s work for even longer than that. Amazing.
“You’re not Black.” — My wife relates the challenges of of raising a child of color in a world that judges such things by looks alone. Be sure to watch the video she links to too.