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🤯Unknown Unknowns #131 - Total Eclipse of the Heart
The difference between a partial eclipse and a total eclipse is literally night and day. You don’t even notice a partial eclipse unless you wear the…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #130 - Generalists and Specialists
“Battier’s game is a weird combination of obvious weaknesses and nearly invisible strengths. When he is on the court, his teammates get better, often a…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #129 - Thinking About Sports
This was the headline of ESPN a few days ago. The Yankees best pitcher, Gerrit Cole, had an MRI recently that was inconclusive but the prognosis was…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #128 - There's No Need to Explain Your Joy
The specter of loss always lingers. In the last couple of months, my family had a loss and my friend’s mother passed. I spent the last two weeks in Utah…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #127 - Updating the Matrix
Khe Hy left his finance job around eight years ago and he writes about discovering and examining our lives. I’ve been following him for years now and…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #126 - Developing Taste vs Learning
A reader asked me what the difference is between developing taste and learning. Developing taste is a meta-level above learning. It’s figuring out what…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #125 - Taste Setting
I’ve talked about finding taste, refining taste, and expressing taste. I had the opportunity to express my taste in a new way in December. I’ve been…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #124 - Pride
“I'm proud of you.” If you're Asian, I heard this from my parents more than you think, if you're not, I heard it much less. I heard it when I graduated…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #123 - Frustration
I spend decades catering to other people's tastes - parents, teachers, bosses. The way to make your parents happy is to do what they want. The hack to…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #122 - Happy New Year!
I’ve been a little inconsistent sending these out lately, but going to be more regular going forward. I like the idea of concept of “taste” that I…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #121 - On Taste
The last few days, I’ve thought more about what makes me happy, and one consistent theme that isn’t readily apparent is taste. Building a sense of taste…
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #120 - On Happiness
A reader asked me, “What makes me happy? Honestly, I’m not even sure I can define what happiness is. Being with friends and family, doing things you…
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