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Today will be the first of many visits to The Bronx, the only borough whose name is preceded by a definite article, an omission I won’t make again. Castle Hill, a neighborhood in the southeast portion of the borough, got its name from Dutch explorer Adriaen Block who, when navigating up the coast, saw a Swianoy Indian village located in the distance and somehow thought the cluster of buildings resembled a castle.

Sometimes I read something so profound I have to stop reading and stare into the distance. I need to give the idea space to unfold. These moments of revelation are the reason I started writing: to share them, to help others find them, and to build a community around them.  As I wrote, I began searching for ways to express this idea. I was excited when I discovered the term “psychological richness.

A documentation of my journey as an eighteen-year-old entrepreneur. Challenging myself to write something every day for 300 days in a row. I'm casually concerned about giving you a look inside my head, but oh well. By Dominic Schlueter · Launched a year agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmismJq%2FtrrNoqWgnZabsqTAjaysm6uklrCsesKopGg%3D

Ever since I launched my shopping blog Le Catch in 2011, while also working as the West Coast Bureau Chief at Lucky Magazine, I've been asked (more like commanded) to offer exclusive early access to my curation of affordable fashion finds. That’s because hours after I post something on Le Catch, it typically sells out—a phenomenon that retailers and ardent online shoppers have coined “The Le Catch Effect.” While I’ve happily regarded this as metric of success, readers, from my closest friends to followers I've never met, have found it be a big bummer at times!

Further down the page: live UK dates • the next online retreat Hello, A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Catherine Coldstream, author of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun, and disaster struck. Halfway through the conversation, the tech failed in a spectacular way, and we lost the whole recording. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth from me. But Catherine very kindly offered to re-record, and so we got together last Friday to capture this new conversation.

The lane I walk along most days with Noushi is lined with young hazels, growing through the ivy hedgerows. To be honest, I don’t usually pay them much attention unless I spot a dunnock hopping about near them, or a rat scurrying in the ivy behind. Last week though, something made me stop to look a bit closer. The hazels are currently covered in catkins, and when you stop to admire them like I did, you’ll see they really are complex and beautiful things.

I’ve been doing my Sunday Sauce project for exactly seven months today. I announced the relaunch of my newsletter on July 5 of last year, and since then have gone through the trials and tribulations of attempting to reverse engineer my grandmother’s recipes from ingredients lists on note cards to actual recipes. But somewhere in the middle, I lost the plot of why I was doing all of this. This week, however, I was reminded in two ways.

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.)Scrolling through Kasey Moore’s (of What’s on Netflix) Twitter feed, I saw Kasey sharing a bunch of examples of people/headlines calling movies “hits” when they were anything but. So yeah, I get why so many people in Hollywood are so frustrated about streaming ratings these days!

Team sports’ most dominant dynasty effectively ended 50 years ago this week. David Thompson was the man who brought it down. OK, so that woefully undersells the contributions of Monte Towe, NC State’s savvy point guard who controlled the flow of the game for the Wolfpack on their way to the 1974 national championship. Likewise, 7-foot-2 center Tom Burleson’s presence in the paint opposite UCLA’s Bill Walton — one of the two greatest players in college basketball history — played a critical role in NC State’s 80-77 defeat of UCLA in the national semifinals.