Simple advice: if you find yourself paralyzed by choice, zoom in. Other details will fade away and you can focus, research and write about that single element.
It’s not enough to consider your mind a blank slate. You have to consciously erase it.
— Paul Graham, in Lies We Tell Kids (highly recommended)
Pouch blocks your phone’s reception so you can pay attention. (via Co.Design)
Photo of a 5-way matcha taste-off that I did with Tynan (via Maybe I Can - Tynan)
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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Can you do it?
Eva’s Birthday/Mother’s Day Dinner in Dolores Park on Sunday.
THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)
I have eaten and which Forgive me
the plums
that were in
the icebox
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
— This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams
Long story short, while many aspects of the paleo diet are uncontroversial and beneficial, like increasing fresh fruit and vegetable consumption, switching to pasture-raised meat, and cutting out processed foods, the overall premise of the diet as well as some of its key components appear based on pseudoscience and unsubstantiated claims. But, you might notice that many of the most popular, well-known paleo diet Websites sell books, diet plans and memberships. It appears that this diet might be more successful in generating profit for its proponents than producing health for its followers.
— Is the Popular ‘Paleo Diet’ a Bunch of Baloney? | Alternet
Domestic violence research has yet to pinpoint a definite predictor of why one person and not another becomes a victim. … Their one commonality: They gravitate toward men who want to control them. This is why falling in love can turn out to be the most dangerous thing a woman ever does.
— Escape
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Great list. I’m included.
