May 10, 2026 from nutcroft The Worlds Left To Conquer Pre-script: I've got a podcast episode out with Ed Zitron available here. It has been a year and a half since I quit my job to start a consultancy. It took me years to build up to quitting, and I h...
May 09, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Niche bouquet 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIX Leafy intro Welcome to the 279th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form wr...
May 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-08-26 I was busy this morning and forgot to write daily Pook-Emu Bee links. But since tomorrow is newsletter day and there are no Pook-Emu Bee links on newsletter day, I figured I would publish a late-ni...
May 09, 2026 from Noahie's Blog 超越 Expression на завтра You know, a guy like me is prone to rumination, obviously. But over the last 24 hours or so, there hasn't been way too much of that, so I don't have a super awesome thing I want to write about off ...
May 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Preserving Strawberry Freshness I came across a blog post by Chris Glass titled Strawberries were on sale. Having not long ago published an article about once purchasing out-of-season cherries on sale. I had to open. While Mr. Gl...
May 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Blogging and the Niche Question Considering whether a blog or writing website should be niche or generalist leads to reflections on related issues about "true blogging."
May 08, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Tapped In Can someone explain TikTok algo-crafting to me? Seriously, I think it might just be an insanely massive cope for screen addiction, but at the same time it's such an easy way to stay Tapped In—so I ...
May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Writer’s Take on Not Wasting Readers’ Time Cesar Aguirre writes “[t]elling readers you don’t want to waste their time is already wasting it.” I agree. It comes off as protesting too much. In Staying the Course in Writing in the LLM Moment, ...
May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Justice Thomas Moves Into Second Clarence Thomas assumed office as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on October 23, 1991. Today, being May 7, 2026, Justice Thomas has now been on the bench for 12,615 d...
May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-07-26 After bouncing back from missing Tuesday with daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, we make it two days in a row with your daily collection of links for May 7, 2026. 1. Mamdani to announce free 2026 ...
May 07, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Gross Human Constants Man, rationality is such a meme. I think rationality is important when you have something tangible you're dealing with, like a problem at work or figuring out what you need to say; but when it's ju...
May 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-06-26 I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of...
May 06, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Talented Idiot You know, David Goggins is pretty cool, all things considered. I remember in the Motivation Bro clip-sphere, there was a turn of phrase circling around that I think was coined by him and that a lot...
May 05, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Belleville (NJ) Fire Seen From Red Hook (Brooklyn) Seeing the smoke from the May 3, 2026 fire in Belleville, New Jersey, from across the river in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
May 05, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Cryptological Collapse Okay, I've gotta talk about the damn Bitcoin thing. I was out at dinner with a friend last night and he was expressing curiosity toward it. Some guy at work was raving about it and how it's the fut...
May 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Mother’s Day Flowers in Brooklyn Celebrating the 2026 edition of Mother's Day with a photograph of a Brooklyn Mother's Day decoration I took back in 2025.
May 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-04-26 Saturday was Newsletter day and I was busy on Sunday, so our daily Pook-Emu Bee links had the weekend off. But there are no such impediments this Monday, so I am back with my regularly scheduled li...
May 04, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Bullshit King Being good is a privilege. I was thinking about how life has gone over the last several years, and I came to a stark realization that if my circumstances weren't as favorable as they are, I'd have ...
May 04, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 yumi and the nightmare painter - a book review Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this makes it clear why. It’s an imaginative, fascinating world. The thing that separ...
