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• Heartbreaking; The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

  When I was 18 (2004), I got my first real job at Nordic Furniture of Markdale ON. We made danish-style minimalist chairs and tables. In early 2005 I and other lower seniority workers in the factory were laid off. It hobbled on for another few years before going out of business for good. The furniture was high quality, the prices didn’t change, but people’s willingness to pay for quality had dropped. This story is not an uncommon one in Southern Ontario.¹²

  1. Canada-China Economic Complementarities Study ↩

  2. Trade liberalization and the Canadian clothing market ↩

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• Space to Choose

  16 days of Youtube

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• The Year Of Ozempic

  Dhruv Khullar, writing for the New Yorker

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson, Theodicy and Cattle

  This essay starts with an extremely careless tweet from a very smart person

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• Ghosts Of Done

  About a month ago, I saw this video from the youtuber @NoBoilerplate called How to Finish Every Project. He talks about the various things that pull us away from getting things done and one of them is our attatchment to our ideas. Being overly attatched to them overvalues them and prevents us from executing. He says to give your ideas away for free to free your mind and focus on that one thing that you can do. It is the doing that is worth something and maybe someone else can do something with your ideas.

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