- Seinfeld Productivity Hack
- Chyron/Lower Third:journalism:video:
- TIL that Harry Houdini hired HP Lovecraft to write a book about superstitions!!
- Word Ladders / Doublets / Word Golf
- Quotation marks styles
- Natalie Grams
- TIL PK was inspired by Abraham Kovoor
- read about Robert K. Merton
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance
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For all the things that don’t have a place to go to (yet?).
Seinfeld Productivity Hack {#seinfeld-productivity-hack}
Tags: productivity lifehacks Basically, a “don’t break the chain” productivity rule attributed to Jerry Seinfeld which he disavowed on a Reddit AMA.
From ‘Don’t Break the Chain’ to Build a New Habit, retrieved :
When you’re trying to form a new habit or accomplish a long-term project, grab a calendar. Ideally, the calendar will be the real deal, physical kind, so you can really see it. Every day, employ the new habit or otherwise work on a step of the project you need to do, then mark an X on the calendar for that day.
Chyron/Lower Third journalismvideo {#chyron-lower-third}
graphic overlay that is present in the lower third of a video see also: ticker, another element in news broadcasts that contains moving text
TIL that Harry Houdini hired HP Lovecraft to write a book about superstitions!! {#til-that-harry-houdini-hired-hp-lovecraft-to-write-a-book-about-superstitions}
In 1926, Harry Houdini hired H. P. Lovecraft and his friend C. M. Eddy, Jr., to write an entire book about debunking religious miracles, which was to be called The Cancer of Superstition. Houdini had earlier asked Lovecraft to write an article about astrology, for which he paid $75 (equivalent to $1,332 in 2024).
Word Ladders / Doublets / Word Golf {#word-ladders-doublets-word-golf}
invented by Lewis Carroll “A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the puzzle one must find a chain of other words to link the two, in which two adjacent words (that is, words in successive steps) differ by one letter.” for example,
COLD → CORD → CORM → WORM → WARM“Often, word ladder puzzles are created where the end word has some kind of relationship with the start word (synonymous, antonymous, semantic…)”
Quotation marks styles {#quotation-marks-styles}
From British versus American style | The Punctuation Guide:
American style uses double quotes (“) for initial quotations, then single quotes (‘) for quotations within the initial quotation.
American style
“Economic systems,” according to Professor White, “are an inevitable byproduct of civilization, and are, as John Doe said, ‘with us whether we want them or not.’”
British style uses single quotes (‘) for initial quotations, then double quotes (“) for quotations within the initial quotation.
British style
‘Economic systems’, according to Professor White, ‘are an inevitable byproduct of civilization, and are, as John Doe said, “with us whether we want them or not”’.
The above examples also show that the American style places commas and periods inside the quotation marks, even if they are not in the original material. British style (more sensibly) places unquoted periods and commas outside the quotation marks. For all other punctuation, the British and American styles are in agreement: unless the punctuation is part of the quoted material, it goes outside the quotation marks.
Natalie Grams {#natalie-grams}
Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book Homeopathy Reconsidered – What Really Helps Patients in which she criticized homeopathy.