Nicholas Bate. Good thoughts on Mondays. Always great thoughts daily.
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Does it pay to own a small bookstore? Seth Godin gives the answer. Something I’ve been thinking about.
“From the north end of the Herman Miller conference table, he presided over dinner, which was the daily review of our lives.” — Kurt Harden tells the story of the lessons learned at The Table
Birthday dinner at “the fanciest place in Saint Paul” for Miss Beatrix.

Do you want a tour-de-force stand up and clap at the end longread thinkpiece on doing nothing. Yes. Yes you do.
CJ Chilvers shares some ideas about what to do with the unexpected moments of whitespace in your day.
Shhhh… Everyone, be quiet. Science says silence literally rewires your brain to be more intelligent. (H/T to The Sovereign Professional for this.)
Can you imagine a world where we all followed Barlow’s rules? I can.
“Hey! I’m creative. You can’t expect me to be neat too.”
— Beatrix, age 10.
Interesting, ex-SocialMediaGoogleTechnoComplex employees have formed a well funded coalition to fight against the things they helped to build.