From @sivers, How to do what you love and make good money: https://sivers.org/balance
TLDR; Don’t quit your day job.
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“What would you rather have: a happy life or a meaningful life?” In 2017, Pursue Meaning Instead of Happiness: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/in-2017-pursue-meaning-instead-of-happiness.html
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Some good thoughts and strategies from @craigmod — How I Got My Attention Back: https://backchannel.com/how-i-got-my-attention-back-c7fc9297d347#.7ukvmt8x0
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
— Mark Twain
Shot on January 13, 2017 at 02:47PM
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Speaking of recipes, I’m coming down with a little something. That means, this will be my before bed drink: http://www.food.com/recipe/dr-pats-hot-toddy-cold-remedy-234344
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Made this @kottke linked simple Mac & Cheese recipe for Beatrix tonight. She gives it a major thumbs-up: http://kottke.org/17/01/a-super-simple-recipe-for-creamy-mac-cheese
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If you all had any idea how often I look across our dining room table and fall in love with @bethanyg all over again…
It’s a lot.
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Rather than thus consent to establish hell upon earth, — to be a party to this establishment, — I would touch a match to blow up earth and hell together. As I love my life, I would side with the Light and let Dark Earth roll from under me, calling my mother and my brother to follow me.
— Henry David Thoreau, Journals, May 29th, 1854
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The always astute @danielnesbit revisits a James Baldwin passage about the only fact we have: http://danielnesbit.net/blog/2017/1/10/the-only-fact-we-have