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GO FLIP YOURSELF.


I WRITE (KINDA). YOU READ. WE THINK.


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK19, 2024

👯 Some tenets of the ‘friendship theory of everything’ Ava highlighted really
resonated:



>  1. You accept that in choosing who you spend time with you choose who you
>     are.
> 
>  2. Almost everyone who’s unhappy is unhappy because they feel isolated. The
>     best cure for isolation is a strong friend group. So much of happiness is
>     having someone you can get a last-minute dinner with on a Monday night, or
>     ask to water your plants while you’re gone for a week. The opposite of
>     loneliness, as it were.

🍪 I got lucky enough to get a sneak preview on the draft of this post. Itay
went through points truly close to my heart. It made me remember an old debate
at home when I was a kid: if we should get an ‘all-in-one’ TV-VHS combo or not
-we decided we shouldn’t. Designing for a single purpose.



Owner Vera Van Stapele with fresh-baked cookies



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Posted 2 days ago


THOUGHTS ON THE POST-INDIVIDUAL

I read The Post-Individual essay yesterday; written by the writer and
entrepreneur Yancey Strickler -today behind Metalabel, before that behind
Kickstarter. I highly recommend it. It goes back in history and the creation of
the individualism. Here are the first 3 paragraphs:



> On the internet we can be whoever we want to be. We can choose from any number
> of qualities, real or imagined, and express ourselves and live our lives from
> that point of view online.
> 
> 
> 
> To go online is to become re-individualized — an individual in a whole new way
> and place. You still exist in the physical world, but you gain a new social
> existence that floats over-top of, around, inside of, and as a force within
> almost all other areas of life.
> 
> 
> 
> Because of the internet we don’t need to define our identity based on where we
> physically live, who we’re born to, or what we look like, as has been the case
> in human history until now.









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Posted a week ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK18, 2024

🇪🇺 Andreas post is a kinda perfect follow up for my US observations above:
Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc. I share his feeling below:

> Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we
> need to talk.
> 
> I am equally extremely bull-ish on Europe and equally extremely bear-ish.

🚴 like Taylor, I bike everyday, under any weather -kids included- so taking
this as an example for his comfort ≠ happiness made me smile: Any sacrifice for
comfort is a waste.



Public Domain: Roman Odintsov/Pexels

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Posted a week ago


A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOLLOWING MY LATEST US TRIP

I spent 2 weeks in the US last month -first in NYC and then in SF. I've been
surprised by a few things. In no particular order:

🌎 immigrants are everywhere. Like somewhere else you can meet them in
low-status jobs but unlike somewhere else you also meet them at every other
layer of the society -all the way to the top; and whatever that 'top' would mean
exactly, you'll meet immigrants there. This is so empowering. I remember the
story of a brown couple living in Paris for 15 years, they loved the city and
their lives over there but when their kids were teenagers they realised that the
only examples for them of people with the same color skin were in the kebab
restaurants so they left. They now live in Boston. Their kids can still meet
people with the same color skin in local restaurants of course, but also as
researchers, big company manager, startup CEO, politicians, journalists, you
name it.



Portals of the Past from the San Francisco Chronicle

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Posted 2 weeks ago


ANALOG ACTIVITIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON HAPPINESS

When do I feel the happiest? I'm actually not sure 'happy' is the right word
here. Maybe it's closer to 'feeling at peace', 'feeling complete', 'whole', a
deep sense of 'calm and serenity'. I still choose 'happy' because there is a
layer of joy, adrenaline sometimes, a genuine feeling of fulfillment.

Going back to the question itself, well, the straight-forward and instinctive
answer is: playing with my kids, alone time with Mathilde, deep discussions with
people -sometimes animated but not necessarily, building stuff -which might
imply deep and animated talks with my co-founders, exploring outside,
skateboarding, boxing, distraction-free reading -good coffee not optional. I
could go on for hours. Typical example being: I hate running -the activity
itself- but I would 100% put 'running with Mathilde' up there in the list of
moments where I feel the happiest. I don't golf but again, I would 100% put all
the mornings I spent with my grand-father 20 years ago on a golf court up there
in the list. I'm not a foodie but again, well, you get the point.



Photography by Alisha Jucevic | For The Times

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 * LA
 * moment
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Posted 2 weeks ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK16 TO 17, 2024

⭐️ the title itself stopped me in my tracks: “getting too good at the wrong
thing”. Nat is highlighting one of the big traps of modern lives. The opening
sentence says it plainly:



> I worry that some of the best writers of our generation are stuck making
> tweets and newsletters.

I worry of the same thing in entrepreneurship.







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Posted 2 weeks ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK15, 2024

Many great interviews last week 👇


🪴 between Brian -from Frontier- and David and Sarah from Terremoto, the Los
Angeles– and San Francisco–based landscape design firm. “A garden or landscape
is a process, not a product.”



Platform Park, Los Angeles. Image courtesy Terremoto.

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Posted 4 weeks ago


WORKING LIKE JEAN-MICHEL

As far as I remember, I've always loved Jean-Michel Basquiat's work. Something
from his world touched me deeply. The apparent chaos, the multiple layers of
reading, the proliferation of messages, the raw material of the streets as his
canvas -- all of these resonated deeply with me from a very young age. As a
skateborder, all of this looked like my environment. I got his crown tattooed on
my front arm. 



A Panel of Experts

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 * inspiration
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ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK11 TO 14, 2024

👧👦 the title says it all and Mariana is delivering an extremely important
read. It’s not for parents only. Why children need risk, fear, and excitement in
play.



> What kids are dying from today are mainly car crashes and suicides, not
> playing outside unsupervised with friends. Parents are worrying about the
> wrong causes of injuries and harm. In fact, the very strategies that parents
> use to try to keep their children safe – driving them around, maximizing
> supervision, and minimizing freedom – are unintentionally increasing the
> likelihood of injuries and even death.

> The solutions are both simple and hard. We know what children need to thrive.
> The three key ingredients necessary for thriving play environments are Time,
> Space, and Freedom.







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Posted a month ago


ASSORTED LINKS FROM WEEK10, 2024

🌀 There some extremely meaningful pieces of wisdom in this 40 life lessons I
know at 40 by Mark Manson. #40: IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE is quite powerful:


> A friend of mine once told me a story about his grandmother. He said that when
> her husband died, she was 62 and for the first time in her life, she began to
> take piano lessons.
> 
> For weeks, she practiced all day, every day.
> 
> At first, the family thought it was just a phase, a way for her to process her
> grief. But months went by and she continued to play every day.
> 
> People started to wonder if she was crazy or something was wrong with her.
> They told her to give it up, face reality. But she kept going.
> 
> By the time she was in her 90s, she’d been playing piano every day for over 30
> years, longer than most professional musicians have been alive. She had
> mastered all of the classics—Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi.
> 
> Everyone who heard her play swore that she must have been a concert pianist in
> her youth. No one believed her when she said that she took her first lesson in
> her 60s.
> 
> I love this story because it shows that even at an impractical old age, you
> still have more time left to learn something than most professionals at that
> thing have even been alive.

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