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Sari Azout

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  • "Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both…
    Profile: dang | Hacker News
  • I think parenting young children (and old ones, I’ve heard) is a little like climbing Mount Everest. Brave, adventurous souls try it because they’ve heard there’s magic in the climb. They try because they believe that finishing, or even attempting the climb are impressive accomplishments. They try because during the climb, if they allow themselves to pause and lift their eyes and minds from the pain and drudgery, the views are breathtaking. They try because even though it hurts and it’s hard, there are moments that make it worth the hard. These moments are so intense and unique that many peopl…
    there’s magic in the climb – A Design So Vast
  • Tough Love, Running Effective Meetings, Making Products That Produce Emotion, and More
    Five Great Blog Posts I Found This Week | by Hunter Walk | Jun, 2022 | Medium
  • Devon: Hello, and welcome to the fifth episode of the Order Without Design podcast. Today's episode is a little different from the previous ones. It's a conversation between Alain Bertaud and our friend, Anthony Ling. Anthony is the editor of Caos Planejado, a website devoted to building better cities in Brazil, Anthony's home. Most of Caos Planejado's content is in Portuguese, but this conversation between Anthony and Alain is in English, so we figured it would be fun to share it with you all. In Portuguese, "caos planejado" means "planned chaos", which is very much in the same spirit of the …
    OWD #5: The evolution of urban utopias (guest episode from Caos Planejado) | devonzuegel.com
  • Audacious teams, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, are trying to compete with Google head-on by building massive horizontal search engines. Rather than crawling and indexing things their own way, they sit on top of existing data sources and position themselves as privacy-focused alternatives to Google. But protection of privacy is not a compelling enough reason to leave Google. For the vast majority of people, allowing them to “control their own data” is not a selling point, especially if it requires paying for something they’re used to getting for free.
    The Future of Search Is Boutique | Future
  • I believe the opportunity in search is not to attack Google head-on with a massive, one-size-fits-all horizontal aggregator, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
    The Future of Search Is Boutique | Future
  • I was elated and honored to receive that no. I feel inclined to keep asking interesting strangers to events, get some yeses, and keep getting nos.
    some shameless asks I've made - by Valerie Zhang
  • There's a spike in January around New Years Resolution season, volume remains fairly high as summer ominously approaches, and, at the end of July, motivation collapses; fall attire does a decent job of hiding extra weight, and typical winter diets give people more to hide.
    The Gym Business: Usage, Slacking, and the Duel Between Margins and Lifetime Value
  • This is one of those conversations that offers a new and surprising lens for understanding the world. We discuss the unique magic of activities like rock climbing and playing board games, how Twitter’s system of likes and retweets is polluting modern politics, why governments and bureaucracies love tidy packets of information, how echo chambers like QAnon bring comfort to their “players,” how to make sure we don’t get stuck in a game without realizing it, why we should be a little suspicious of things that give us pleasure and how to safeguard our own values in a world that wants us to care ab…
    Opinion | Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways? - The New York Times