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  7. Email-related incident at work proves yet again that noreply@ email addresses harm your business. Always let people reply to a human, even if the email was sent by a robot.

  8. First time flyering a protest, discovered murphy’s law of flyering: the moment you encounter a cluster of people who enthusiastically want flyers is the moment they will all stick together, and you flail idiotically trying to separate them.

  10. "…yet my mind was not at rest, because nothing was acted, and thoughts ran into me, that words and writings were all nothing, and must die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing"

    - Gerrard Winstanley, "a Watch-Word to the City of London", 1649

  12. ↪ Aaron Parecki: Zippers are kind of magic. When you have to fix one, it turns out you gain an appreciation for them not otherwise had by merely using them.

    @aaronpk true! I’ve noticed this also with other things, especially food. My (totally failed) attempts to make Skyr have made me appreciate eating it much more.

  13. ↪ LouLouK: By which I mean to say, how entrenched is thinking. Can you change that using training? Is that's what's actually needed?

    @loulouk in my experience, yes it’s possible (although I don’t know what your context is), and that regular training i.e. some feedback loop is vital. We choose the lens through which we see the world, but need to re-choose it every day if it’s not already entrenched.

  16. How to make kiwi cake:

    1. Find other fruit cake recipes
    2. Replace other fruit with kiwis
    3. PROFIT

    But in all seriousness, I just made one (based off this recipe, using three kiwis) and it was acceptable. Quite structurally insound, and not nearly as green as I had hoped, but tastes adequately like kiwis and very moist.