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Battle of Britain in WW2 recurs Nov 5
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-2-2024?selection=b5c9cb1c-aea9-4992-ae69-a5421a6d2176&r=j03es&utm_medium=ios If you are a US citizen, campaign for an overwhelming vote against Trump
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Pivots in my career
I’ve seen several pivots in my career that were both circumstantial and serendipitous. However, when I reflect upon it, I realize a key influencer and coach in my journey didn’t have this designated role. It is only in hindsight I realize how my approach was shaped by the four plus years I spent as a…
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The U.S. Treasury’s Innovative “Reverse Coinage” Program
In a bold move to combat inflation and encourage savings among American citizens, the U.S. Treasury announced early today its new “Reverse Coinage” initiative, set to launch nationwide on the first day of the next fiscal year. The innovative program will introduce a groundbreaking concept to the American economy: negative-value currency. For the first time…
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Work hard, play hard, what’s the issue with that?
I subscribed to this axiom or meme (depending on your inclination) for the longest time. I will however say that a better meme or axiom is needed to define how we achieve work life balance, which in itself is anachronistic. One new way to look at it comes from a very nuanced perspective provided by…
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AspiringPolymath
What is one word that describes you? I aspire to gain the ability to be in the shoes of all minds from a sympathetic understanding. My inspiration for this aspiration came from a public speaking and speed reading courses I took under an instructor named Venkata Iyer, who was a business consultant who taught these…
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A personal publication stack
I am borrowing the term stack from technology stack, which is the combination of tools that developers use to create a website or application, including programming languages, libraries, frameworks, and other tools. I am repurposing it into a term, personal stack. A personal stack allows an author or creator to create once and publish everywhere.…
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Die Empty, a book suggestion
Die empty This is a post by my spiritual mentor, a former IT executive and currently a monk ordained by the order of monks of the tradition of Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, in Facebook. Copy paste: “To possess a heart full of love, and then to live a life selfless, free and cheerful, is the…
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Wim Hoff and weight loss
Despite the negative light in which he is casted in the Wikipedia link shared here, I practice his methods but very gently snd by paying attention to your own mind and body using the methods from Eckhart Tolle among others that include practices from Yoga. Wikipedia considers his endurance an innate (freak) character than a…
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Pop a pill and live for 180 years, there is scientific evidence backing this so goes the marketing spin
Senolytics – anti aging chemicals from plants A conversation with ChatGPT4, after I saw an ad on Facebook claiming you could live to 180 by popping two pills a day for the rest of your long life (😀, the implication). Q: Explain what is a senolytic and what is the known evidence for it A:…
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A capstone volunteering week
Great week and weekend of volunteering, last week Had a good time as judge at the children’s school district’s science fair this weekend. Last week, Thursday, volunteered with the point in time census of the homeless by walking the streets for three hours in the evening. A pleasant cold weather helped. I learnt about both…
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