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not-knowing ✹ 🍕-fan ✹ productive discomfort + idk ✹ Marseille / Singapore / Auvergne ✹ The Uncertainty Mindset (2020) ✹ now: vaughntan.org/now-ish
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vinzersekts
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@aviationdoctor.eth what's the reason massive hub airports don't have more gyms as part of the commercial mix?
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airport retail is almost always uninteresting international or regional chains — would love a forward-thinking operator to stock a terminal with only independents and see how awful the economics are ... or maybe that travelers will like it
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priority pass's webservices are bafflingly bad
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the usual place. still the best i've had on the island
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This week's newsletter includes a reading list for doing nothing, and reflections on living in depopulated french mountains to figure out that the days are just packed even when there's "nothing" to do.
Boring and uncomfortable (wk 52/2025)
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Boring and uncomfortable (wk 52/2025)
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Most digital transformation projects fail the same way: buying Big Fancy Software designed for massive scale when you need Boring Tiny Tools for specific workflows. New piece on the inverted economics of software development and why precision beats scale:
Boring Tiny Tools - Vaughn Tan
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Boring Tiny Tools - Vaughn Tan
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the panettone of iginio massari
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idk is now shipping to Europe! It's the first training tool for productive discomfort—based on years of research with the world's most innovative teams. Each card suggests something intentionally uncomfortable that helps you grow. While others freeze in unfamiliar situations, you'll excel.
idk - Productive discomfort
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idk - Productive discomfort
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friends and enemies in Singapore still eating out at french, italian, spanish, german restaurants — eat the food of home, folks. it's better, it's better value. and it'll die slowly (by diminutions of quality) if keep passing it over for the other stuff
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i wrote a reading list for learning how to do nothing
Doing nothing: a reading list - Vaughn Tan
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Doing nothing: a reading list - Vaughn Tan
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the higher the friction, the stronger the signal that makes it through
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