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Joined November 2012
🪶 SONNET COMPETITION 🪶 It's been a long time since I hosted a sonnet competition in the old tradition. But we are BACK. The theme is 'bargains'. To enter, DM me your sonnet by the deadline: Monday 28th December. Bonne chance!
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________ | I'm still hiring | |________| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_
Replying to @EvanRiggss
I’m looking for a Commercial Associate to work with me in London, ramping up revenue across all areas of @WorksInProgMag. Are you a scrappy, slightly technical salesperson who loves to read as much as you love making new friends? If so, shoot me a DM! stripe.com/careers/listing/j…
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When you go into a shop because your friend is going in and you end up buying something you didn't really need
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As of today @stripepress officially has *two* full-time editors: myself & @_theplaza! Eloise comes to us from Folio, where she was a literary agent and nurtured by some of the best in the business. ~1.3 million books later we’re still only *just* getting started, and have huge ambitions to grow. More job postings coming in the next few weeks for NYC-based roles 😌📚
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People usually say that the pill caused the sexual revolution but a) people started having premarital sex in the 1950s, a decade before the pill and b) contraception is widely used by people who don't live very post-sexual-revolution lives (like in Asia). I think the sexual revolution, i.e. more permissive attitudes about sex, caused the pill to be invented and not the other way round. But then, why did the sexual revolution happen? I have cooked up a theory. Just as how women have more casual sex on college campuses with fewer men, I think women, as a collective, responded to the male shortage caused by the Second World War by shortening their hemlines and having premarital sex. Read my column here: worksinprogress.co/issue/you…
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Oh rats! I was abed this morn 😡
And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here
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How can someone make a 921% return in 13 years while the market overall has delivered 117%? This book is an amazing insight into the mind and decisions of someone who did it.
And now you can preorder the NOMAD LETTERS (out December 1!): press.stripe.com/nomad-lette… For years these letters have circulated (at first, unofficially) among investors, acquiring a devoted readership. We wanted to give them a permanent home in print. Nick and his partner Qais Zakaria’s record is extraordinary. The letters are the account of how they got there, featuring everything from studying Amazon and Costco (Nomad’s defining investments)—to visiting cement plants in Zimbabwe, and beyond. They’re candid about their mistakes and curious about the forces that shape investors’ behavior: incentives, psychology, and the wisdom (or foolishness!) of the crowd. Since closing the fund, they’ve devoted their time to philanthropy, a journey Nick recounts in the lovely foreword he wrote for this edition. I’m thrilled to continue adding to the investing corner of our catalogue, and I can’t think of a better work to follow Poor Charlie’s Almanack. ❣️
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And now you can preorder the NOMAD LETTERS (out December 1!): press.stripe.com/nomad-lette… For years these letters have circulated (at first, unofficially) among investors, acquiring a devoted readership. We wanted to give them a permanent home in print. Nick and his partner Qais Zakaria’s record is extraordinary. The letters are the account of how they got there, featuring everything from studying Amazon and Costco (Nomad’s defining investments)—to visiting cement plants in Zimbabwe, and beyond. They’re candid about their mistakes and curious about the forces that shape investors’ behavior: incentives, psychology, and the wisdom (or foolishness!) of the crowd. Since closing the fund, they’ve devoted their time to philanthropy, a journey Nick recounts in the lovely foreword he wrote for this edition. I’m thrilled to continue adding to the investing corner of our catalogue, and I can’t think of a better work to follow Poor Charlie’s Almanack. ❣️
Finally someone caught it 🤭🤭
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Some big personal news: I'm moving to join Works in Progress as executive editor, starting next month. I have been hoping for an opportunity to work with @bswud and @s8mb for more than a decade, and I'm incredibly excited to finally have one. WIP is expanding on every front right now. We'll soon begin coverage of business and finance, as well as putting out more reported features. To that end, we'll be hiring more writers and reporters in the year to come. I'm planning to remain based in the US to help build out our presence here. The print edition of WIP has existed for less than 12 months, but sometime in the next week or so we will reach our 10,000th paying print subscriber. It's a group that now includes people who've been at the highest echelons of government and who run the world's biggest public companies. We’re already on track to 3x that number next year. We'll be in store at Barnes & Noble, Hudson News and independent newsagents next week too. I think WIP is providing something that people are craving from physical media right now: fewer, extremely well-crafted pieces in a beautifully designed form. Issues now feature an amazing group of columnists, including Tyler Cowen, Dan Wang and Stephen Kotkin. Each edition is better than the last. You'll see us in more and more places next year too. In January, our new weekly documentary films will launch on YouTube. We're expanding into the events space, with a new series in North America. The sky is the limit from here on out.
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Winter is going to be so good this year. We will have dazzling low angled sunlight, picturesque snowy landscapes, and warm fashionable looking coats. And all of our thermostats will work perfectly
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Would anyone come if I hosted a workshop on how to write sonnets ?
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While it’s true some people dismiss astrology on misogynist grounds, I’m afraid that Le Guin said it best.
anti-astrology is always a veiled misogyny
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We've gone too far with making fun of performative readers. A male friend recently told me that he's too embarrassed to read a book on the train unless he's at least 2/3 of the way through
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kinda messed up that there were like 10 centuries that were both mid and evil
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There's a guy on tiktok doing musical parodies with the Muppets. But he always changes the lyrics to add frog puns. It drives me crazy. If Kermit the Frog was playing Jean Valjean, he wouldn't be adding random puns about how he is a frog. He's an actor and a professional
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We are thrilled that the great @CharlesCMann, author of 1491 and 1493, has joined us as a regular contributor. And we've just released his debut article -- a foray into the long history of one very underrated material: porcelain. worksinprogress.co/issue/eve… A signature Charles move is to take something that seems utterly ordinary and reveal, with flair, that it exists only because of countless small, often accidental innovations, many of them since forgotten. And he's at his best in this new piece for us. He traces how porcelain, discovered by chance by Chinese potters some 3,000 years ago and coveted by Europeans who spent centuries failing to copy it, became a staple of modern materials science. Today it turns up everywhere from bathroom tiles that grow less slippery when wet, reducing the risk of injury, to scaffolds for bone implants, that dissolve as bone tissue regenerates.
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The @FTAlphaville dataviz exhibition was sold out, so I bribed my way in with a ten-billion-pengő note from Hungary, 1946. Cash is still king.
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You either live long as a talking tree, or you dialog
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Throwing a Works in Progress launch party that coincided with an air show over San Francisco Bay was really fun! There is basically no hedonic adjustment to fighter jets soaring past your window.
Huge turnout for the @WorksInProgMag Issue 26 Launch Party last Sunday in San Francisco. Thank you @cosmos_raj for the photos!
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Had a brilliant time in San Francisco, celebrating the launch of the latest @WorksInProgMag. What a magnificent city!
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Huge turnout for the @WorksInProgMag Issue 26 Launch Party last Sunday in San Francisco. Thank you @cosmos_raj for the photos!
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