Category: Ideas
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My current daily routine will include reading and journaling from: And I will also be listening and journalling to: This will be my sixth year going thourgh the Daily Stoic meditations. I has not gotten old yet, and I find the wisdom/best practices to be timeless. You can find my…
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One of my favorite podcasts – Freakanomics Radio – recently completed a three part series with a extra bonus episode on Handel’s Messiah: It is really well done and tremendously interesting as Messiah is one of my favorite things to listen to during the Holiday Season. It was also very…
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You can find out what I’m up to in near real-time via BlueSky (@sdholden.bsky.social). Also on Facebook (sholden) & Instagram (@sholden). Significantly less on X/Twitter (@sholden).
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I recently finished this new book called “The Unexpected Journey: Finding strength, hope, and yourself on the caregiving path” written by Emma Heming Willis the wife and primary “care partner” for actor Bruce Willis. Some personal take-aways: I also found this recent interview by Diane Sawyer very moving (that you…
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I recently learned that one of the authors of The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living — Ryan Holiday — had his Naval Academy lecture cancelled: For the last five years, I've been reading this book as part of my daily morning devotion practice…
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The last couple of days, I've encountered several situations where I wanted to quickly send content to my Kindle Paperwhite via the Amazon send to Kindle email service. They support several formats (PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, HTM, HTML, PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, EPUB). One piece of content I…
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This article offers a wealth of valuable resources, including "20 Helpful Verification Tools for Journalists."
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A thoughtful and well-researched analysis of the question: What if FEMA* didn't exist? *FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency: Official Site Wikipedia
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This Freakanomics podcast, "Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System," is worth listening to if you want some great background on the current state of our National Debt and some suggestions on fixing tax policies.
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The Search Engine podcast does a great job tackling this topic in the episode "The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber." I ordered one and will post a review and photos once I get it.
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