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March 2024

Things that don't work

dynomight.net

5. Tree-based knowledge organization.
6. Graph-based knowledge organization.
10. Expecting people to follow written instructions.
17. Arguing with people.
21. Wanting to be liked.
31. Waiting.
32. Quality over quantity.
35. Rewriting your code from scratch.

Your World of Text

yourworldoftext.com

Infinite canvas of editable multi-user text

Spencer Hansen

spencerhansen.art

Welcome to Choppke's, Your Wich Is My Command

kottke.org

Chopwiches already exist — tuna salad, Philly cheesesteaks, chicken salad, egg salad — and they’re amazing because you get all of their deliciousness in every bite. I just wanted to extend that enjoyment to many other types of sandwich: banh mi, BLT, Italian sub, gyro, turkey club, and even the humble ham and cheese. Great idea, right? I wanted to open a chopped sandwich restaurant and change the world.

Then I made a mistake: I told people about my idea. And every single one of them laughed at me. To my face! My friends, my kids, everyone. It was a heartbreaking moment but as an entrepreneur, I knew I had to persist and follow my dream. Like Wayne Gretzky said: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” And I was going to win.

Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

dwell.com

“Don’t even bother,” the upholsterer told me. I was on the phone, asking for a theoretical quote to reupholster a five-year-old or so midrange sofa, which cost more than $1,000 when new. That task, the upholsterer told me, would run me several times more than the couch was originally worth, and, owing to its construction, it was now worth nowhere near its sale price. The upholsterer proceeded to lecture me, in a helpful, passionate, and sometimes kindly manner, about how sofas made in the past 15 years or so are absolute garbage, constructed of sawdust compressed and bonded with cheap glue, simple brackets in place of proper joinery, substandard spring design, flimsy foam, and a lot of staples.

What makes an album the greatest of all time?

pudding.cool

In short, beyond accounting for new releases, there must be other factors influencing Rolling Stone’s choices.

This project uses Rolling Stone album rankings – twenty years apart in time – to determine what influences “greatness”.

First, musical greatness is shaped by how we listen.

Bastard Chairs

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