High Tatra like skiing circa 1976
Outside – “It hasn’t been this dangerous to ride a bicycle on American roads in three decades. And in the face of our greater public-health crisis, more people than ever are riding bikes to avoid public transportation and to safely exercise outside. That means that as restrictions lift and cars begin returning to our roads at pre-pandemic levels, even more cyclists will die. This year, Outside is tracking every cycling traffic fatality. Read more about why we’ve embarked on the #2020cyclingdeaths project…”
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The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animatedd
On where to seek refuge from the forethought of grief.
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The US wood shortage can be traced to a decades-old beetle infestation in Canada Quartz
Experience: Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina candle erupted in my front room Guardian (Dr. Kevin). Um, people admit to having bought them? Even as a joke? Don’t they realize that rewards her?
Mission to clean up space debris around Earth is poised for launch NBC
How the hell can you be different? It’s just about the business person’s Number One problem.
The answer, of course, was best articulated by Apple in the 1990s: “Think Different”.
If you’re thinking differently, that means you’re thinking about stuff that hasn’t occurred to the competition. Which allows you to make moves the latter would never think of. Or, paraphrasing Rory Sutherland, having the insight that data and logic will get you to the exact same place as your competitors.
If you can grapple with that then you’ve got the good news. The bad news is you don’t just wake up one morning and start “thinking different” right out the gate. Like everyone else, you’re stuck with the same brain you went to bed with the night before.
What you can do is do what David Ogilvy did: acquire the habit of hiring “different:- i.e. mavericks and non-conformists- and let them go wild (within reason). It’s what powered the tech industry these last 60 years, and judging by the stock prices of some of them, it worked.
