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Adam Davidson • The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Paul Schmitt • Zadie Smith - Feel Free.pdf
On line at the bagel store, I see a “tournament director” (as it says on the back of his shirt) making chit-chat with Lori Ann (as he called her). It was something like a track-and-field-coach—student-parent acquaintanceship. Sounded like they were talking about TV shows. I paradoxically saw this in both lights: as the power of local community, and
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SIX at 6: Forms of Freedom, Making Less, Giving Permission, Seeing What Happens, Being Consistent, and Deep Affection - Billy Oppenheimer
New Yorkers Are Turning to Dinner Party-Style Restaurants to Make Friends (and Find Dates)
Emma Orlowny.eater.comShe once threw a party where everyone had to be naked except for a mask, hoping it might loosen up the rationalists a bit. “But instead, they all just sat around the circle and behaved exactly the way they normally do and started debating like global trade,” she told me. (Aella’s efforts weren’t entirely fruitless; Scott Alexander met his future wi
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