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In case you, like me, didn't really understand how perception works. This explains why we often fail to notice change in our environment. 

I deeply appreciate Wired's commitment to covering the current administration. I can't read it all (or any most days), but I'm glad I'm a subscriber.  https://www.wired.com/category/politics/ 

NY Times Opinion: The Key Reason Trump's Poll Numbers Are Sagging, 2025-March-18 by Kristen Soltis Anderson Shortly after the inauguration, I asked American voters how much of a priority they thought a range of policy moves should be for Mr. Trump. The very top of the list? “Reduce the cost of living.” Also high up…

https://inboxcollective.com/here-are-the-finalists-for-the-inaugural-inbox-awards/  Ms. Lonely Arts advice column from the Brooklyn Museum Help Scout on doing better customer support 8 Epic Start-up Failures, stories from the past of The Wall Street Journal First name substitutes revealed by Email Love Re-use the art to make stickers, posters (or napkins or placemats) from The Republic (Nigeria) Ask for advice…

Kotkin has refreshing opinions about the power of the current global states. Stephen Kotkin interviewed by The New Yorker's David Remnick https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/what-trump-has-got-wrongand-rightabout-the-war-in-ukraine  When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, one of David Remnick’s first calls was to Stephen Kotkin, a historian of Russia and a fellow at the Hoover Institution. He speaks with Kotkin again,…

My notes from listening to this March 5, 2025 interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ztOoADp7M) are below.  Tyler Cowen:"…if you're not focused on the technical side, you'll see other things more clearly. Maybe over time, some of my future intuitions will be quite wrong. I readily admit that, but there are ways in which it [this focus] can be…

Caroline Crampton is editor-in-chief at The Browser. Her blog: https://www.carolinecrampton.com/tag/blog/ From Read Me, a newsletter by Seb Emina I invented some words that are a bit like ‘vegetarian’, but for the increasingly urgent activity of setting limits on what we consume online:…  Algnostic, Deskatarian, Mailivore, Realatarian, Gutenberg Guy/Girl, Yearlipian…   To find out what they mean,…

KK.org (The Technium): The Self-Domesticated Ape, 2025-Mar-2 by Kevin Kelly:  We invented ourselves. I contend this is our greatest invention. Neither fire, the wheel, steam power, nor anti-biotics or AI is the greatest invention of humankind. 0ur greatest invention is our humanity. And we are not done inventing ourselves yet. ..

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