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by stevenfoster 16d ago
Over on Substack it feels like the whole platform is in mourning and the tributes are beautiful. RIP.
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by stevenfoster 1mo ago
"...the author makes some good points, a lot of the anger feels oddly misplaced." a significant portion of my internet experience could be boiled down to this single sentence.
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by stevenfoster 3mo ago
Wild there's a Safeway sign in there and not Alpha Beta, Fedco, and the old Coronado bridge sign. My parents grew up around this time and a lot of it still looked liked this when I was a kid in the 90s. I always wanted to move back to
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by stevenfoster 6mo ago
Did something similar but not nearly as long across a good part of Mexico a few years ago. It was wonderful though one cannot be in a hurry. I will have to consider your route for a future pilgrimage. Thank you for sharing it!
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by stevenfoster 7mo ago
Ensure your career isn't your religion. After a decade in tech, mostly in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, I realized people had not ascended to some higher intellectual belief but sleep walked into a half baked religion, myself inclu
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by stevenfoster 9mo ago
I became a parent of two this year and my oldest is now 3 years old. One of the greatest things in life has to be a newborn baby. And more than ever for me, it makes sense that the greatest thing would be if God came as a newborn baby. ¡Fel
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by stevenfoster 9mo ago
Picked up my two mentions of the Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila. Going to be looking to see if any of the other doctors have been mentioned.
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by stevenfoster 9mo ago
Someone solved this 13 years ago: https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs
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by stevenfoster 9mo ago
Panem et Circenses.
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
Teresa of Avila was 62 when she wrote the Interior Castle. Easily one of the most impactful books on my own life.
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
Yet…
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
Teddy Roosevelt did it best and against his own successor and own party.
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
This made me immediately want to play Age of Empires and drink a Mountain Dew. Well done sir.
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
In process of ditching everything Apple by the end of the year. Going all in on Linux. There's trade offs, nothings perfect, but I don't need a big desperate corporation trying to upsell me on cloud storage and AI.
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
I remember reading Theodore Roosevelt's biography by Edmund Morris and being shocked how he was basically able to text everyone he needed to be in contact with while president through the telegraph system.
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
What a last name to be making this argument with.
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
I try to support writers directly. eg. You can purchase Paul Millerd's Pathless path on his gumroad page and it comes with both the ebook and audiobook: https://pathless.gumroad.com/l/pathlesspath Tanbooks also se
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by stevenfoster 1y ago
It used to be: "If New Mexico is newer than Mexico why is Mexico's constitution newer than New Mexicos" but it seems after running that one on Claude and ChatGPT this has been resolved in the latest models.
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by stevenfoster 2y ago
Disappointed that the author of the article has a German name but didn’t coin a long single German word for this.
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by stevenfoster 2y ago
I met David Sparks back at WWDC in 2018. One of the real ones. Definitely one of those internet people who inspired me make the jump out of Silicon Valley to do my own thing a few years ago. Meeting him made it real. Glad he's writing
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by stevenfoster 2y ago
This is one of the truest comments I have ever read on here
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by stevenfoster 2y ago
Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy Few people understand the Punic wars and what it took to “delete” Carthage from the world. Delenda Cartago Est. Goldsworthy tells the story accessibly from both sides of the wars. Lessons that echo thr
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by stevenfoster 2y ago
Big nope.
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What Steve Jobs Taught Me at 19(stevenfoster.substack.com)
1 points by stevenfoster 2y ago|0 comments
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by stevenfoster 3y ago
Here for the Manchester United / Manchester City comments in response to that roster faux pas.
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The Dark Truth About Taylor Swift(unherd.com)
4 points by stevenfoster 3y ago|2 comments
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The First Online Writer(michaeldean.site)
4 points by stevenfoster 3y ago|0 comments
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by stevenfoster 3y ago
If only he knew how many millions of lives would be lost indefinitely scrolling on a small sheet of glass.
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The Miracle of Two Morning Days(stevenfoster.substack.com)
3 points by stevenfoster 3y ago|1 comments
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by stevenfoster 3y ago
For a more productive day I embraced the old ways.

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