Rochas has launched Audace Le Parfum, a new fragrance for women. Audace Le Parfum is a flanker to the 2025 version of Rochas Audace...

Today I lost a customer who had been with me for about 3 years. As I was contemplating the loss, it also dawn on me that half of the year is gone. I do my best not to waste time by cutting back on…

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions that you want to talk about (that includes school). If you want…

Settling into routine, another mystery novel, sportsball, Québecois Traitors, an absence of video games, and links.

2026 is not going well...

I’ve talked a lot over the years about a simple, powerful idea. This idea represents a shift away from the guest experience of a couple decades ago into something that looks similar on the…

by Andrew Rice, The Atlantic In the summer of 2017, Keeron Wilson was an 18-year-old deckhand working on a spectator boat in Bermuda, serving cocktails and carving out a modest living as part of the…

These are the most popular names in the nation. But do they really represent our naming style? The post Meet the Top American Baby Names of 2025 appeared first on Namerology.

This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released Vivaldi 7.9, with even more…

I'm at home, sitting on the kitchen table. I just took my boys to school and I'm about to start my work. I'm writing this message directly to you. And you are reading it. Hello! Isn't that funny?…

Welcome to Technology Short Take #195! It wasn’t planned this way, but it seems like this Tech Short Take is heavily slanted toward AI/LLM-related articles and posts. Topics like security…

Stuck in the middle. With you?

In Praise of Crazy Visionaries by Jeffrey Blehar Ted Turner passed away today, at the age of 87. He had been out of the public eye for several years now, first retiring from corporate responsibility…

You ever get so tired that your brain stops fantasizing about money and starts fantasizing about owning three goats, a rusty lawn chair, and a shotgun labeled “For Emotional Support Only”? Because…

Just reached saifee. MaMo has added two cases. Last one of them is left. Run run run dhanwantiiiiiiii induuuuuuuuuce. Will message when I reach home. Drive safe

His relationship was amazing at first, but it's become a nightmare. But even after he's been given the perfect opportunity, he can't bring himself to leave! via Paging Dr. NerdLove.

Yep. Big fluffy flakes. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 09:28 Friday, 8 May 2026

A weekly round-up of what I’ve read and enjoyed from around the web. I’m interested in journalism, media, technology and nerdy things found down the back of the World Wide Web’s sofa. Most weeks I…

How is it that I manage to feel so inept still, even though I have accomplished so much already? I am in this enviable position. People are amazed at what I have done on Udemy. And yet I feel inept.…

‘People can see it – but can’t use it’: mystery of completed East-West Rail line that has no passenger trains | The Guardian HS2's could be overloaded from Day 1...…

Locking up phones is raising students' moods -- but not their test scores.

I’ve been back for a few days now and I know I’ll need a few more to fully recover from the 2026 Chicago Pen Show, which was both a lot of fun and a lot of work! I did a report card for this show…

I love startups and entrepreneurship. My obsession started when I was reselling Nerds candy in Taipei, purchased from the U.S. commissary store. To recognize and exploit a pricing arbitrage as a…

Has the consultant apologized yet?

The Guardian has a strong piece on Angine de Poitrine.

While I do have my own plans for merch already, I want to see if you all have any ideas. If you have trouble accessing the poll you can click this link here

Before we get into this issue, I thought I'd just let you know that Scott has launched a free Mindful Design Toolkit , packed with good stuff for you. Polypane snippets store Polypane is already the…

a week spent trying to manage my anger and grief. i have therapy soon at least, but it always feels like something new is uncovered. reading a tree grows in brooklyn hasn’t helped, either. anyway,…

One of the most revealing leadership lines I’ve read in a long time came from Robert Caro, now 90, still writing the final volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography. The post Note #37: Strategic…

Writing to you from a feverish state, but saw Peige’s monthly reflection over on Pretend Typewriter and was inspired to look back on the month of April. Yes, I know it’s May 8. + The first couple of…

thresholds of goodness

Creating and maintaining the I Heart SapphFic website and BookFinder (which now has more than 10,990 books!) takes a massive investment of time and monetary resources. Put simply, we wouldn’t…

Last weekend, Cambridge United secured promotion in the most Cambridge way possible, scrambling a 0-0 draw and relying on other teams failing to win. Work felt a bit like this, trying to keep…

Blog. I have not written in what feels like actual years. However I didn't expect to write this entry for at least another 7 years. Since I was young, my dad's stance on dating was that I was not…

A twelve year-old girl walks up to her grandfather’s casket at the cemetery. She leans over and whispers: “Your life was the biggest.” She’s crying, this character on the TV series, and I’m crying,…

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My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • The Great $110 Trillion Wealth Transfer Won’t Happen Any Time Soon: Financial advisory firms like to talk about a looming event called “the great wealth…

A day of cutting words.

Over the last four years that I’ve been reading the statement, however, and especially since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, it has become an affirmation that gathering as we do every…

Usually I forget my dreams within seconds after waking up, but this one stuck with me a while. The particulars have faded, but I remember the gist of it, because it starred my mother. Nobody else can…

If you are reading this on Friday morning, Susan and I are on our way to the first of three consecutive weekends at IMS for Saturday’s Sonsio Grand Prix of Indianapolis. The weather forecast for this…

Summary The Dunhill Namiki Yukari Urajiro Fern is a painfully beautiful piece of maki-e art. However, you are paying a substantial premium for an unusual Yukari variant. If you are a hardcore Namiki…

Sometimes to become a human you’ve got to become a mushroom. This was the subtext—if not the actual text—of last night’s Music for Mushroom event. Described like so: Ophelia and Tender invite you to…

There were two translation houses in town. They translated the same things, but they could never be the same.

My coworker: "This is Adam, he's leading the platform development." Researcher: "Oh yes, I saw the platform! Very nice work!" Me: "That's very nice of you, but really, there's a lot of things, we…

It's possible, even in surprisingly ancient times, to have hugely sprawling cities -- but they're not quite the same type of sprawl we see today. The reason is simple: how are you going to get…

Sunday, April 26 I came back from my friend’s farewell ceremony. She was my oldest friend, 99 years old. I would rather celebrate her beautiful life than feel sad about her passing. I feel so lucky…