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Five Points newsletter (#32)
WFH by not working from home; 15 years of skipping work; Better Meetings; Burning Money; and Sitting is the new smoking.
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Five Points newsletter (#31)
Title photo [https://www.instagram.com/p/CP2L_8Uptpp/?utm_medium=copy_link]: Brooklyn Bridge, shot in May 2017. I'm determined to get to the Big Apple this year. 3 days will do [https://www.peterkos.org/on-the-road-by-jack-kerouac/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [self-marketing] I just updated The Elements of Lifestyle book
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BlackBird's Bullets #30
Home office setup ideas; Life Design Worksheet; 15 steps for great Zoom calls; Zoom survival hints; 10 WFH time management tips.
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BlackBird's Bullets #29
YouTubers as essential workers; Hermits; net-zero cities; 99 rules to live by; and Bill Burr.
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BlackBird's Bullets #28
Man's Search for Meaning; FutureMe; Ode to Excel; Ridiculous job candidates; and a Dutch parking solution. Another edition of the BlackBird's Bullets [https://www.peterkos.org/bbb-newsletter/bbb-blackbirds-bullets/]. If you're not subscribed yet, you're missing a whole intro above which is delivered
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BlackBird's Bullets #26
Simple life; Kevin Kelly; Brain Pickings; Biden's Peloton; and a creative derivatives This time I'm sharing my latest book impression, and expect more to come as I'm working through years of my kindle highlights and marginalia in the paper books. I call these impressions
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The Quest of the Simple Life by William J. Dawson
This is a wonderful book [https://amzn.to/2NaPFE1] if you're looking to simplify your life. Written at the beginning of the previous century, you might find it dated, but I enjoyed following the author's path towards living a simpler life. He wanted to escape busy
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#25: hiring freelancers; book in hardcover; kleptomaniacs; weekends; and the most painful way to the Olympic bronze
I'm super fascinated by this new creator economy. Everyone (and yours truly) has a newsletter nowadays, but while for me it's just a fun hobby to cater to my writing itch, it's a survival plan for many journalists across the globe. We read the
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Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
I enjoyed reading and scribbling into Austin Kleon [https://amzn.to/3djp7L8]’s Steal Like An Artist [https://amzn.to/3uVCyqq]. I ordered this one via Amazon for my wife and then stole it from her (lesson learned). [https://www.amazon.com/Artist-Turtleback-School-Library-Binding/dp/0606368868?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1618557338&
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#24: Bob Dylan; ideas4growth; Clubhouse; Hemingway; and McKinsey.
I had a super-creative weekend, and so I scheduled more book impressions that will get published over the coming weeks, amongst them: The Quest of the Simple Life [https://amzn.to/3sAPeSa], Steal Like an Artist [https://amzn.to/3auheR4], The Stranger in the Woods [https://amzn.to/2RHTh2c], and
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Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
When I think of California [https://www.peterkos.org/on-the-road-by-jack-kerouac/], I think about Steve Jobs [https://amzn.to/3tyEXHD] and Bob Dylan [https://amzn.to/3sjekEP]. The former is California's favorite son, while the latter is ... from Minnesota. I'm not sure how I made the initial
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#23: Chapter 6; fixing Zoom; starting countries; chips shortage; and Liberland
Twenty-third edition. I was expecting to have at least ten chapters drafted by now, but I'm making slow progress. There is so much other writing ideas popping up and I'm letting them flow. Yes, there is a third book sketched-out, but I have to take it