TCL

Fun thing I learned today:

TCL used to be pronounced "Tickle".

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Notes on "How to be charismatic" by Charles Duhigg

Ignore the clickbait title and cover image: this is simply a little technique for being more likable.

Might be useful to those of us who have a deficit in this area, people in the autistic spectrum who are mistaken for narcissists, etc.

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You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen died in November of 2016, a mere few weeks after the release of his last record, You Want it Darker. The homonymous song of that record greatly surprised me, and revealed to me a Leonard Cohen that I was previously unaware of.

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The Bud Winter Sleeping Technique

Sometimes I have trouble sleeping, and this can have severe consequences the following day, especially if it is a workday.

For a long time I had been thinking that techniques must have been devised for helping people fall asleep, especially in high-stakes settings such as professional sports, key value driving professions, the military, etc. This means that finding such a technique is probably just a matter of a brief internet research. However, this idea would always occur to me while lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, which is never the right time to get up and start doing internet research.

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