Starlight attention: Directs your longer-term projects and goals (writing a book, building a business, being a good parent).

Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, a collection of Katchor’s Knipl strips, was originally published in 1991 by ...

Wallowed out — Describes something worn down, hollowed, or enlarged from repeated use, pressure, or motion. Often used to ...

What Am I Doing Here? is Dean’s second book, and is generally regarded as his best work. It was originally published in 1947.

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The Disappointing Wise Debit Card. I use Wise.com on a weekly basis for international business transactions with low fees, as do most of the people I know running online businesse ...

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Little Blue Truck, an antique pickup, and his best friend, top-hatted Toad, take a ride through an autumn countryside, as owls, ravens, and black cats wait by the road for a lift to a barn celebration ...

I wouldn’t have put “more legroom on Spirit Air” or “overall airfare prices down 7%” on my travel predictions list a year ago. Apparently, the tariff-related economic chaos and resulting USA travel ...

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Claude Shannon invented the modern mathematical definition of information, casting it in terms of bits and entropy. Shannon also tinkered with odd contraptions, but his boldest most brilliant ...

Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged ...