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april 9, 2022 Erol Alkan B2B Ivan Smagghe Live at Homobloc [2019]
maart 30, 2022 Losing My Ambition
By the time I was parenting a toddler and a newborn in lockdown, my idea of ambition had been permanently altered. I had to keep working to keep everyone fed and alive, and I realized I didn’t want or need more than that. I wasn’t willing to give up any more mental or emotional space to the idea that work itself was the pathway to something more. Work wasn’t my identity or my family; it was a means to an end.
maart 30, 2022 Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
In Google Docs, you can now select “Automatically detect Markdown” from Tools > Preferences to enable auto correcting for Markdown syntax.
Lekker.
maart 21, 2022 Exercise and COVID-19 Can Be a Dangerous Combination, Evidence Shows
If you’ve been diagnosed with COVID-19, whether or not you have symptoms, you should not exercise for at least two weeks after receiving your positive test, Makadia says. “If you do have symptoms, you should avoid exercise for two weeks after your symptoms subside.”
Goed ziek, hierzo. Het originele plan was om nu zondag een Brevet van 200 km te fietsen. No pasaran, dus. Ergens in april terug die fiets op:
If you’ve had a mild case, then Metzl and his coauthors recommend working with your doctor and following a gradual guided activity modification plan such as the 50/30/20/10 rule developed by the National Strength and Conditioning Association and Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association Joint committee.
maart 18, 2022 Prijs
maart 17, 2022 Putin’s Thousand-Year War
Michael Hirsh in een deep dive voor Foreign Policy:
“Russia has been repeatedly invaded. That’s something that’s very difficult for us in the United States to understand because we never faced a catastrophe of those dimensions,” [Thomas Graham, a former senior U.S. diplomat and Russia expert now at the Council on Foreign Relations] said. “It is a sense that goes back centuries: In order to survive, you need strategic depth, so you need to push borders out as far away from the heartland as possible—not so much physical as geopolitical barriers. You just push until you meet something that can resist you.”
maart 10, 2022 John McPhee’s Slow Productivity
Being frantically busy in the present moment has very little to do with whether or not in the future you’ll look back at your career with pride about what you’ve accomplished.
februari 2, 2022 Tom Brady Vanquished Father Time
Brady has the same number of Super Bowl appearances as the Bears, Titans, Jets, Chargers, Saints, Browns, Cardinals, Jaguars, Lions, and Ravens combined. Brady made 10 Super Bowl appearances in his 20 seasons as a starter … The Belichick-Brady Patriots won the AFC East at a higher rate (89.5 percent) than Michael Jordan made free throws. Brady has spent more than 400 days—more than a year of his life—in the playoffs. He played 17 games, a full season, in the divisional round and went 14-3.
januari 19, 2022 QCovid® risk calculator
Interessant resultaat van onderzoek aan de University of Oxford:
QCovid® is a clinical decision tool intended to support conversations between clinically trained professionals and patients about COVID-19 risk.
QCovid was developed as a model to estimate a person’s risk of being hospitalised or dying due to catching coronavirus.
Ik heb blijk 0,0070% kans te hebben om in het ziekenhuis te belanden. En mocht ik ergens ooit positief testen, dan is de kans dat ik daarna zou sterven ongeveer 1 op 22,727.
januari 18, 2022
The key to identifying your talents is not pride; it’s embarrassment. If you consistently find yourself embarrassed that the people around you can’t do something that is intrinsically easy, that thing is not intrinsically easy. It’s intrinsically difficult, and you have a talent for it.
Zoë Rose in Dense Discovery