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Writer C. Raymond Beran on friendship: "What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been decla

"The information you consume each day is the soil from which your future thoughts are grown." from a James Clear email dated 21 Dec 2023 #JamesClear

Coffee With My Dad

When I go home to visit my parents in Kentucky, my dad and I will pour two cups of coffee with an unhealthy amount of hazelnut Coffee-Mate and sit and catch up. It’s quiet, and we check in on all things — family, health, our opposing politics, parenting. He gives me the best life advice, and I sometimes help him log onto the Wi-Fi

I definitely need some espresso. We have a couple of nice places; we live in Midtown on West 57th Street. Zibetto, which is on Sixth Avenue, or we go to Masseria, which is on Ninth Avenue. My wife likes a cappuccino with an extra shot. I usually get a nice double espresso with some pastries. #Coffee https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/nyregion/luna-

"Of all the ways you could be spending your precious time and attention, it is very unlikely that you are currently spending it in the optimal way. The only path I know for figuring out a better way to spend your life is to sit and think. You simply have to carve out some time to think carefully about what you're doing, why you're doing it, and wha

Steve Jobs explains the secret to focus: "People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is sayi

While your instinct will be to go with the fancier titles, don’t fall into that trap. A “vice president” title at a small marketing firm is different from a VP title at a Fortune 500 company, is different from a VP title at a consulting firm . . . you get it. The same goes for common job titles like “associate” or “executive.” Each can come with ex

The main challenge with this collection is that its primary contents are three-dimensional objects; unlike text-based documents, the materials do not easily self-describe.

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At your next virtual work meeting, feel free to take a sip from your water bottle. But think twice before you gobble down your lunch or show up in your pajamas. A YouGov survey of unacceptable behaviors at online work meetings found only 17% of respondents had an issue with attendees drinking a non-alcoholic beverage. But 61% said it was unacceptab