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Last week, I mentioned that I had developed a new tool for tackling some of the challenges I’ve encountered in my ungraded writing courses. That tool is the Progress Tracker, a comprehensive series of worksheets that students use throughout the semester to keep track of reading and assignments; attendance and engagement; and learning and growth. The tool also includes a guide to determining final grades at the end of the course.

This series follows my attempt to develop a product that I dream of getting into the elite levels of hockey. Previously on the Quest: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21 I’m proud to introduce the Uncage, a new type of goalie cage with better visibility and bars 5x thinner than a cat-eye cage.

I needed to figure out a better way to keep track of everything in my life. From business obligations, Substack deadlines, to my fictional worldbuilding and story-plotting ideas, and so on. I purchased a yearly planner from Clever Fox this year, which helped me cross things off physical lists, but I burned out too quickly because it felt like added work. Don’t get me wrong, I like writing on paper from time to time because it externalizes a lot of life’s stressors.

I’ve seen a lot of conversations on the side of social media I’m on (between cinematic videos of chocolate covered strawberries- anyone else?) about how we “don’t need to spend more money to have better style, we just need to spend more time with our current closets.” I agree with the sentiment *but* I initially felt I was the exception. I just started building a wardrobe that was compatible with my personal style and adult life in the last year, starting from square one.

Percival Everett is an experimental novelist and an English professor at the University of Southern California. Erasure is his thirteenth book of fiction. He has bounced from a major New York publisher in 1983, when he was a promising young African American writer, to small houses and university presses, his face glowering from his book covers more unhappily every time. He’s never fit. Often you can’t tell if his characters are black or white.

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. After a buzzy open, when the stock jumped from its offering price of $30 a share to $42, the stock has quickly given up those gains and now trades at below to its offer price.

Dear Classical Wisdom Kids, Well, we have been traveling quite a bit this week! In fact, we only arrived in our new accommodations here in Italy a few hours ago. After having two overnight flights and a 12 hour layover in Miami, we are very tired and probably quite smelly, but still extremely excited. We’ll be writing about awesome ancient stuff as we travel (First stop: Hadrian’s Palace!) including postcards from Frida… but we need to do some boots on ground research first.

The Founder, managing partner and director of research for Ironsides Macroeconomics LLC, is Barry C. Knapp. Barry spent nearly four decades on the street and makes ~75 appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business and additional financial media networks, annually. Barry’s investment strategy analysis was available only to institutional investors until he launched Ironsides Macro in 2019. Here is our story and the case for subscribing. My interest in macroeconomics began during a period when Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson renewed the post-WWII J.

We are burrowed deep within cozy season on social media. It surrounds us in clouds of neutral-toned knits, it shrouds us in the steam of freshly-brewed hot drinks. Our socks encase our ankles with soulful seasonal droopiness. Our beanies threaten to envelop our entire heads in their snuggly embrace. We have a candle burning, we have a new book ready to crack. We are not getting up from this spot.