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@na
ai gives you a new reading primitive: coverage
ai can read every sentence that you would have glanced over; sections not within your preconceived extraction point
checking what is not in a corpus is just as important as comparing what is, so you reach a new distribution of foci
then it will make sense that the world you are looking at is so full of details even there, your have more than enough materials to just let the writing pare down the sound
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@mdf365
New monthly article from the content development workshop is online now
Full chapter and video: https://mdf365.substack.com/p/how-to-create-a-personal-brand-in-0f9
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@mdf365
In this session, we give progress updates on all of our projects, discuss project development, as well as promotions and marketing for your releases.
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-episodic-w-michael-finney/id1492769018?i=1000756747670
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@mdf365
Authors and publishers: Let's get your titles submitted for this Short Stories niche sale
1 Week to enter: https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/call-for-authors-short-stories
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@samanthaeharvey
New Post ✨ Research | Art & Technology, Brain & Sensory Differences, Mental Health, Economics, Political Activism, Web3 & Web4, Data Ownership
Why am I adding this section?
https://samanthaeharvey.substack.com/p/research-art-and-technology-brain
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@papa
Published as a (first) X article, appreciate retweets!
opening para:
In January 2026, a DeFi protocol called YO lost 97% of a $3.84 million treasury transaction in thirty seconds. Not to a hacker. Not to a bug. To slippage.....
https://x.com/papajimjams/status/2027311413337711055
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@samanthaeharvey
New Post ✨ Sacrificed. Bright Green Diamonds | Magnets Spin...
Sharing on Substack, while building a new version of these to bring onchain.
https://samanthaeharvey.substack.com/p/sacrificed-bright-green-diamonds
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@mdf365
In this session, we give updates on our personal projects, discuss the art of querying submissions, and announce the “Relics” anthology of short stories we are curating with the Based Book Sale!
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-episodic-w-michael-finney/id1492769018?i=1000748913654
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@eljuniordiaz.eth
On Living In Grief:
Pain and grief are interesting things to process.
You can feel physical pain, but it doesn’t hurt as much as the pain that cuts deep into your heart—like the loss of a loved one.
You can wake up, go through the day, eat, and drink, but the food won’t have flavor, and the drink will just keep you hydrated.
You can go about your day with only one thing on your mind: wishing you could see them again.
And then reality settles in, and the sadness overcomes you because you realize you will never see them again—and you have to make peace with that.
It’s so important to be able to let go. Letting go doesn’t mean you forget about them. You just accept that you will no longer be able to hold them, contemplate their smile, or even just be around them and hear them laughing. It’s crazy how much we take those moments for granted when we have those people right in front of us, not realizing that one day they might be gone.
The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop denying it—but that’s the hardest part, because once you accept that they’re gone, a little piece of you dies with them.
But that’s not to say you can’t—or shouldn’t—live your life to the fullest. In fact, you definitely should, especially because they no longer have that opportunity. Who are you to squander it?
I’ll never forget the words of my 12th-grade English teacher: “Why not use that God-given brain of yours? It’s not fair to others who don’t have it for you to waste it!” The same can be applied to living your life—fully and wholeheartedly.
So it might be a cliché, but take advantage of the day. *Carpe diem*. Seize the day. It is a gift—one that not everybody gets today. Some people went to sleep and never opened their eyes again. That’s why it’s called the present.
Yeah, you can break a bone or suffer a deep physical wound, and eventually, in most cases, you’ll make a full recovery. **But** you don’t ever fully recover from grief or loss. You just learn to walk around with that knife in your heart that you can’t pull out—and you also shouldn’t push it in deeper.
Just hurt when you need to, but heal *because* you must. Carry on with that pain, which only you can carry…
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@tombeck.eth
I'm going to try a seasonal rhythm with creativity this year. It feels healthier than doing everything all at once all the time.
I've been reading Virginia Woolf's diary this month, and you can see this approach across her life. Each book follows a similar pattern:
* Idea nurturing — no writing, lots of reading, an idea identified and nurtured
* Writing — active, focused attention on the book
* Editing + promotion — drafts to friends, proofs, interviews
* Rest — vacations, plus "easier" writing (criticism, essays)
You can track her emotions through the phases, too: nervous anticipation, intense focus, anxious exhaustion, then finally ease.
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@mdf365
The final session from 2025. We talk about accomplishments from 2025 and plans for 2026 as well as the state of traditional publishing and how indie authors can grow.
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-episodic-w-michael-finney/id1492769018?i=1000744812518
Additional platforms available downthread
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@thumbsup.eth
How Markdown Took Over the World
https://anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
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@mdf365
I'll be featuring this program for the duration of 2026 - 1st segment will go live on Substack in a few weeks for paying subscribers
Preview: https://mdf365.substack.com/p/the-curriculum-for-2026
Let's build a broader foundation this year
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