[1909] Digital Resource Lifespan

Title Text:I spent a long time thinking about how to design a system for long-term organization and storage of subject-specific informational resources without needing ongoing work from the experts who created them, only to realized I’d just reinvented libraries.

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[1908] Credit Card Rewards

Title Text:I should make a list of all the things I could be trying to optimize, prioritized by … well, I guess there are a few different variables I could use. I’ll create a spreadsheet …

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[1907] Immune System

Title Text:It also helps with negotiation. “Look, if it were up to me, *I’d* accept your offer, but my swarm of autonomous killer cells literally can’t be reasoned with. It’s out of my hands!”

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[1905] Cast Iron Pan

Title Text:If you want to evenly space them, it’s easiest to alternate between the Arctic and Antarctic. Some people just go to the Arctic twice, near the equinoxes so the visits are almost 6 months apart, but it’s not the…

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[1904] Research Risks

Title Text:The 1919 Great Boston Molasses Flood remained the deadliest confectionery containment accident until the Canadian Space Agency’s 2031 orbital maple syrup delivery disaster.

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[1902] State Borders

Title Text:A schism between the pro-panhandle and anti-panhandle factions eventually led to war, but both sides spent too much time working on their flag designs to actually do much fighting.

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[1901] Logical

Title Text:It’s like I’ve always said–people just need more common sense. But not the kind of common sense that lets them figure out that they’re being condescended to by someone who thinks they’re stupid, because then I’ll be in trouble.<…

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[1900] Jet Lag

Title Text:I had some important research to do on proposed interstellar space missions, basketball statistics, canceled skyscrapers, and every article linked from “Women in warfare and the military in the 19th century.”

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