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I've been rabbitholing in Substacks the last few days and came across some really cool/niche ones like 'Laid off' - it features interviews with people who are laid off.
The intention behind the newsletter, Melanie said, is to destigmatize an experience a lot of people don’t feel comfortable talking about. Cos there’s still a lot of shame around. Sad but true - esp for those who have not only invested in their career but also embedded their identities in it.
"Building a career and a relationship takes time, and I had devoted a lot of time to both of them, and not a lot to myself," really spoke to me.
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Chatted with "Links I Would GChat You If We Were Friends" author Caitlin Dewey about the emo-to-journalism pipeline, leaving Substack's CEO on read, Canadian radio, and where we tf go from here.
If you're interested in newsletters and the economy around them I highly recommend this, I found the convo so compelling I'm not just saying that
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Python!
Honestly very hard for me to get into - I have ZERO coding knowledge and nothing I could really latch onto - knowledge transfer is how I learn. But https://futurecoder.io/ is great (after lots of Redditing)
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The puffin is the latest addition to more than 180 known species—many of them sharks, corals, and other marine animals—that emit a luminous glow.
The fact that so many marine animals biofluoresce "tells us organisms are using light in ways we don't even see," John Sparks, curator of fishes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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I read that happiness is when your expectations falls below the reality. A new mind project for April. Good prognosis.
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