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Week Notes No. 43: Learning Currents

By Justin G. on 25FEB18TUE

It’s a light week; work clobbered me.

1. Articles & Newsletters
   • Advertising is not one thing, but a thousand different things, all called advertising. Via HN.
   • Carla Lalli Music’s The costs of youtube. Sobering. Carla, I wish you future successes, but I’ll miss your YT content. Just maybe don’t read the HN comments.
2. Words
   • Dinner vs supper. My mom’s mom used these words in a particular way, and I was recently reminded that I was always confused by that. Since I just happened to have a dictionary in front of me, I looked them both up. Dinner is the main meal of the day. It could be lunch, it could be breakfast, it could even be what is currently commonly called dinner: the evening meal. Originally it was breakfast. Supper is a small meal, later in the day. There you have it. When my grandmother, on the farm, was calling lunch ‘dinner,’ it was because it was the main meal of the day.
3. Quotes
   • “You’re playing Russian roulette with your self-esteem, and you have no control over how you’ll be received.”
4. Facts & Ideas
   • Girl Scout Cookie mirror universe.
   • The Control Test. Ask yourself, “if this is in my control, what is my next step?”. This clarifies the question of what you can and cannot do something about. Via Kottke.

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