Category: Bookmarks
Neat stuff from the corner of the Internet and some FYIs or TILs.
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🔖 Why monks had that haircut
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🔖 A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist says most people don’t really want to be happy
They actually want to maximize their satisfaction with themselves and with their lives. And that leads in completely different directions than the maximization of happiness,” he says. Read more: A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist says most people don’t really want to be happy
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🔖 Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?
“I don’t regret selling to Yahoo. But I do wanna know where it could have gone if I hadn’t sold at that point. Could it have been Pinterest or Facebook? Probably not Facebook.” Link: Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo? Just when I’m wondering what happened to del.icio.us, though (and…
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🔖 Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy To Achieve Career Success
“One of the most popular ideas in personal development is that all successful people have achieved mastery. Many of us believe in this false notion that you have to master a skill to achieve career success. That’s because we, as a society, admire and glorify winners. We look at billionaires, champions, gold medalists, and other…
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🔖 Decoding (Most of) an 18th-Century ‘Riddle Menu’ | Atlas Obscura
Our readers offer up their answers and theories. — Read on Decoding (Most of) an 18th-Century ‘Riddle Menu’ | Atlas Obscura
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🔖 History Through the Eyes of a Chicken — Ted-Ed
Honestly, I thought it’s going to be the history of the world narrated by a chicken. But this will do.
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🔖 The story Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tells employees to make them take sexual harassment seriously — Quartz
“Recent surveys find that approximately 80% of women and more than 40% of men in America have experienced sexual harassment in their lifetimes. Alarming as these statistics are, many people still have a hard time believing harassment is a pervasive, often career-altering epidemic. Aware of the disconnect, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings takes a personal approach.” via…
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🔖 WordPress Accessibility Team Delivers Sobering Assessment of Gutenberg: “We have to draw a line.” – WordPress Tavern
“In a post titled “Accessibility in Gutenberg is not a one-more feature,” core developer Drew Jaynes urges the project’s leadership and contributors not to compromise core accessibility standards for the sake of an expedited timeline. “Please let’s not make the ‘new standard’ be that we’re willing to ship technically accessible but perhaps not entirely usable-for-all…
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🔖 Nutrition research is deeply biased by food companies. A new book explains why. – Vox
“She also explains why the very notion that any single food might have miraculous health benefits is absurd. “Foods are not drugs,” she writes. “To ask whether one single food has special health benefits defies common sense. We do not eat just one food. We eat many different foods in combinations that differ from day…