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Automated Archives for June, 11th 2025

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Chess For the Day

Record: 3-0-3
Net Elo Change: +7

Games Played

Blog Posts On This Day

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June 8th, 2025

There are few better ways to nourish your soul as good as spending an evening with close and dear friends who have moved away.

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June 6th, 2025

Wisdom from an old friend

Big Feelings are like the warm puppy inverse of intrusive thoughts.

Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) (@bdm.bsky.social) 2025-06-06T15:20:32.433Z

Brian David-Marshall and I have known each other for twenty years. He played a small but pivotal role in me starting the podcast that led to me working for Wizards. And I just loved this post from him for how true it is.

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June 4th, 2025

Chapter a Day?

I had an idea for a service that lets you read a book via email. Like, it sends you a chapter a day. But, maybe you're busy one day and you don't have time to read the whole thing, only reading 1/2. Well each paragraph would have a "stop here" link. And tomorrow's email would pick up there.

Truth is, I don't know if I'd use a service like this. I find it hard to imagine that I would read something, but maybe having it delivered in chunks would make it more likely. No idea. But I found the idea for being able to mark where you stop interesting.

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June 2nd, 2025

Mary Meeker's AI Trends report

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After three months without substantive progress I finally sat down and did some more work on my book rewrite. It wasn't much but I'm glad to get back into it.

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June 1st, 2025

It was a productive day. From brunch with a few friends, and then running a few errands like getting a haircut, hitting Costco, and grabbing a few things from Fred Mayer. But it didn't stop there, then I did yard work with a quick bit of weeding, then picking up fallen branches in the yard, and then mowing half of the backyard.

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"Expectations are shortcuts to disappointment."

A YouTube comment I came across today. I am far more optimistic and so that quote is more negative than I usually think, but there is some truth which rings in it.

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As I went to bed last night TikTok was showing me 90s cartoon intros. And I thought, "Maybe I should start a cartoon rewatch/discussion podcast."

This morning I still think it's a fun idea and my morning brain gave me "Toon in Next Week" as a possible name for it...

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