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New site and community platform from Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. So far, it looks to be a wonderful resource for those of us.

I just picked some of these up based on the review and I have to say, it was delicious. I’m hypoglycemic and therefore generally always try to keep a healthy, blood sugar increasing, snack close at hand. I think these will become my new go-to.

Non-brilliant and happy? Probably in! Brilliant and happy? Probably in! Smart with a little bit of edge? Maybe. Just angry? No thanks.

I like this and some of the other suggestions he has. Increasingly, what I’m thinking I’d like from my Twitter stream is “Wow!”. That is to say, each time I open Twitter I would like to see at least one thing that makes it worth my time. Something enlightening or thought provoking or interesting or just makes me smile.

One strategy I have long employed, keeping the number of people I follow low (currently at 375 but I think my “sweet spot” is 350) and being fairly choosy about it. That said, I always feel like there are people I should be following to increase the Wow! factor that I’m not yet. Either I have yet to discover them or, my brain has not made the leap from “I love this person’s work and find them fascinating.” to “I should follow them on Twitter”. I’m sort of slow on the uptake that way.

Anywho, I’m always open to suggestions if you have them. I’m @patrickrhone on Twitter.

This has dropped in price a little bit more since I tweeted about it last night — only $83.30 This is a fantastic deal! I paid $79.00 for the 1TB version of this just a couple of months ago.

Good little mini-documentary on how he won by FiveThirtyEight.

Here’s the other thing many overlook about Jesse. Love him or hate him, agree or disagree, he either a) kept every promise he made when running or b) fought tooth and nail against a hostile legislature to do so.

The shiny new light rail we have here in the Twin Cities? Jesse. Concealed carry of firearms for licensed citizens? Jesse. Surplus tax refunds? Jesse. He did not get his legalized pot and prostitution but it isn’t because he did not try damn hard.

What other elected official can you say worked hard to do everything they promised to get elected? Very few and none I can name off hand beyond Jesse.

The quiet serves me, but only because I listen to what’s held within it. The quiet helps me move forward when I feel I’m stuck in one place.

There was a time when I actually used a bunko-bon novel as a notebook. It’s a terrible thing to do to a book, but if you write with a fat marker it works as a memo pad. Even with the printed text underneath. And it’s cheaper. I thought it was a good idea at the time, and I was young so I was being a bit rebellious, too. It’s pretty punk to write in a novel, isn’t it?

People would say, “You can’t do that!” and I’d just say, “Sure I can.” It was okay because the book I was writing in was by Nietzsche…

Can’t wait to be able to get my hands on an English version Hobonichi.

Saying that you need to live enough life to write a book is like saying you need twenty million dollars to make a movie. The money enables you to make a wider set of potential movies, and the experiences enable you to write a wider set of potential books, but in neither case are the resources a requirement.

Truth.

Maybe it’s that sense of work that’s best realized in sharpening: the continual, attentive maintenance to a thing that’s ultimately, necessarily, and even intentionally disposable

There is beauty in impermanence.

Fantastic review. Full of great history and a few wonderful pictures. I have one of these on the way myself. So excited to get it now.