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On April 17, 1955, Albert Einstein's Sunday was shaping up to be anything but ordinary. There he was, seated at his messy desk (who am I to judge?) in Princeton, New Jersey, surrounded by a pile of papers and books, when suddenly, a familiar pain in his chest intensified, transforming into a sharp, unbearable agony. This was no stranger to Einstein; he had been living for a while with an aortic aneurysm, a potentially lethal condition where the heart's main artery develops a dangerous bulge.

Evidence of the use of pickling as a means to preserve food can be traced back thousands of years in many cultures around the world. While modern methods of food preservation have made pickling less necessary, pickling remains a useful way to preserve foods, and people still like them, because pickling is a good way to develop the flavor of many vegetables. I grew up with a wide range of pickles at the dinner table, and loved them all.

Full episode here: Founders #50 Marc Andreessen’s Blog Archive In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups. [0:01]  Great things about doing a startups:  Most fundamentally, the opportunity to be in control of your own destiny — you get to succeed or fail on your own, and you don’t have some bozo telling you what to do. For a certain kind of personality, this alone is reason enough to do a startup.

Matthew Specktor (MS) is the author of the new release, Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles. We’re pleased to have him on the page today. -Colin (CJN)  Matthew here. I have in my hand a rectangular object, stubbornly analog, slightly larger than an iPhone Pro Max (6.8” x 4.25”), but decidedly thicker. Like your phone, it was designed to be carried in a purse or a pocket, meant to occupy your leisure time, and—unlike your phone—was, sometimes still is, available at a supermarket or a pharmacy.

Rodney Dangerfield: This Joker Is Wild: “Dangerfield says each Carson gig requires him to come up with 35 to 40 new jokes, and that means trying out 2,000--to find the ones that are funny.” Want to be as funny as Rodney? Just write 2,000 jokes and do them a lot. At that point, you’ll have 5-10 minutes of good material. Then do that over and over and over and over…

And just like that, THE ME YOU LOVE IN THE DARK comes to an end. Issue #5 will be available in stores today, December 1st, and that brings our story to a close! I can't believe we’re already here. It seems like we started this forever ago, but also, only a few months ago. Jorge and I dreamt this story up, wrote it, and started art for this book in the beginning of 2020.

Welcome back to The Inklings Option. Taking a hiatus from more "serious" writing around the time leading up to Holy Week has provided me with valuable mental space for contemplation, reading, and reflection. I'm thrilled to share these reflections with you all and to see where they lead. Considering its potential, I'm thinking of making this accessible to everyone as it offers an excellent entry point into what some refer to as The Symbolic World.

Pit stops are one of the most exciting parts of a Formula 1 race. Races can be won through pit strategy but they can also be lost in a blink of an eye because of a slow stop. Much thought goes into when cars pit depending on circumstances like weather, tire pressure and overall car damage. While pit stops take less than 1% of race times, large disparities between team pit times can still have an effect on overall performance.

On 26 March 1351 an extraordinary event happened. During the Breton War of Succession, two groups of knights, squires and mercenaries from opposing sides of the conflict agreed to an arranged fight on an open field, both of them bringing exactly thirty men to the contest. Jean de Beaumanoir led the men loyal to the House of Blois. He was a local Breton knight and captain of the garrison of the castle of Josselin.