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my inbox's thousands of unread emails could achieve sentience and I still wouldn't care about it — scruss. People are talking about how they handle their emails in response to Well I never's Ask Me post, "What's in your email inbox?"
In Ask Metafilter, miles per flower asks, "I've recently enjoyed a couple books that dive deep on what magic costs — Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education — and I'm looking for more to read along those lines: detailed mechanics and economic systems, with magic as the currency and thoughtful attention to economic metaphors. Suggestions?"
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In fact, the proximate cause for posting this was so I could more effectively answer the question I frequently get from people I work with: "what should I learn next?"
If you didn't catch it, blahblahblah's post about Gabriel Weinberg's list of useful mental models is a good roadmap for exploring approaches to brainstorming, deciding, reasoning, negotiating, strategizing, managing, mitigating, and much more. Gray cells, activate!
why alert systems are in ALLCAPS
"[T]he basic reason for the shouting is the alerting systems -- which are often worldwide and interconnected -- are based on Baudot..."
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