Books
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
Garrett M. Graff
October 3, 2026
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Music
Running Red Lights (feat. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu)
The Avalanches
Articles
Seattle
First time visiting Seattle (well, Redmond & Bellevue) – a very different feel than the Bay Area. Always inspiring to work on new ideas, meet new people and learn about new technologies.
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alicegg.tech
Alice GG • Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A…
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Orange Shirt
Discovery
Articles
A Hundred Years of Shared Stewardship
We’ve spent the week up Brauneck – one of the mountains close to Munich. We come for a week most summers and spend the time in a Hütte (mountain cabin/chalet) that we can use via a hiking Verein (club) we belong to. Ever…
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Diane
The Strumbellas
Articles
Königsdorf Airshow
This was our second visit to the Flugplatzfest Königsdorf – held at the end of summer at a glider airfield near the alps. It’s a fairly small airfield and so the sheer number of aircraft on display and in the air at any…
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Zugspitze: The view from the Austrian side of the summit.
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Review: Kobo Clara BW
I’ve been using a Kindle ever since the original Paperwhite came out in 2012. The combination of easy access to English books in Germany and being able to read at night without a light on made it a super compelling produ…
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Brauneck
Books
Martin Luther
Eric Metaxas
Music
When The Avalanche Comes (feat. Jack Johnson & Zach Gill)
Matt Costa
Music
This Is the Song (Good Luck)
Punch Brothers
Quotes
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
Music
The Pain
Another Sky
Music
El Coconito
Natalia Lafourcade & El David Aguilar
Quotes
“Think about why you are party-avoidant, though. Do you really just not want to go? In which case: OK. Or are you just a bit scared? In which case: this is a bad excuse because everyone is a bit scared of everything, if we’re honest, and part of being an adult is about keeping others company while we all freak out about how stressful life is.”
Books
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Music
St. Brendan's Isle
Jake Xerxes Fussell
Hear hear – we’re not going to turn back the clocks and go back to the Internet of the late 90s, but we can decide where to spend our time & attention online.