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The search for happiness is becoming more scientific. But does that make it any more accurate than it used to be? Two books explore a growth industry
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Letterboxd
- entertaining but I was hopped up on cold medicine
- good. not going to replace die hard for best Christmas action movie though
- surprisingly wonderful
- Why?
- this wasn't bad but so unmemorable that I had to watch the trailer to remind me that I'd watched it only a few days ago.
- Pairs really well with Schaake's Tech Coup which I'm currently reading.
- Mike Judge doesn't disappoint. Really timely movie, too.
- +1 for how the Banana boat song got incorporated. Also Winona and Keaton are still great
- barely worth having on in the background while I did something else.
- John Cena!
Reading Notes
- Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
- the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
- • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
- The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
- . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
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- The city of Berlin pays half the cost if you repair electronics and don't throw them away. That sounds better than it worked out in practice. — Direct link
- It’s a feed reader, and a fediverse client, and the whole point is that the difference doesn’t matter. — Direct link
- Princeton Tour Company Insider Activity Guide to Princeton — Direct link
- High calorie intakes, especially as carbohydrate, increase carbon dioxide production (VCO2) and may precipitate respiratory failure in patients with severe pulmonary disease. — Direct link
- Home assistant dashboard ideas — Direct link
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- Unsolicited review, but these smart outlets are excellent. Having Zigbee setup on my Home Assistant machine provides so much flexibility. — Direct link
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