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• Centennial Park (Nashville) - Wikipedia — Centennial Park is a large urban park located approximately two miles (three km) west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, across West End Avenue (U.S. Highway 70S) from the campus of Vanderbilt University.
• Parthenon (Nashville) - Wikipedia — The Parthenon in Centennial Park, in Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
• Grand Ole Opry - Wikipedia — The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a division of Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.), it is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history.
• Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center - Wikipedia — Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, formerly known as Opryland Hotel, is a hotel and convention center located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is owned by Ryman Hospitality Properties (formerly known as Gaylord Entertainment Company), and operated by Marriott International. With 2,888 rooms, it is one of the 30 largest hotels in the world.
• Hot chicken - Wikipedia — Hot chicken (or Nashville hot chicken) is a type of fried chicken that is a local specialty of Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. In its typical preparation, it is a portion of breast, thigh, or wing that has been marinated in a water-based blend of seasoning, floured, fried, and finally covered in a paste or sauce that has been spiced with cayenne pepper. This method of preparation originates within African American communities in the Southern United States. A richly pigmented seasoning paste gives the fried chicken its reddish hue. Spice blends, preparation methods, and heat intensity vary from recipe to recipe or depending on the chef.
• Broadway (Nashville, Tennessee) - Wikipedia — Broadway is a major thoroughfare in the downtown area in Nashville, Tennessee. It includes Lower Broadway, an entertainment district renowned for honky tonks and live country music.

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• Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia — The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. The system extends throughout the contiguous United States and has routes in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.
• United States Numbered Highway System - Wikipedia — The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but the roadways were built and have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.
• CB radio in the United States - Wikipedia — CB radio is most frequently used by long-haul truck drivers for everything from relaying information regarding road conditions, the location of speed traps and other travel information, to basic socializing and friendly chatter. CB radio is also frequently used on larger farms for communication between machinery operators.
• The Atomic Trucker: How a Truck Driver "Rebuilt" the Atomic Bomb — A truck-driver with minimal college education, Coster-Mullen taught himself how to build the most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made.
• Square, Inc. - Wikipedia — The Square Reader was the firm's first product. It accepts credit card payments by connecting to a mobile device's audio jack. The original version consisted of a simple read head directly wired to a 3.5 mm audio jack, through which unencrypted, analog card information was fed to smartphones for amplification and digitization.
• Stripe (company) - Wikipedia — Stripe provides APIs that web developers can use to integrate payment processing into their websites and mobile applications.
• OnlyFans - Wikipedia — OnlyFans is a content subscription service based in London. Content creators can earn money from users who subscribe to their content—the "fans". It allows content creators to receive funding directly from their fans on a monthly basis as well as one-time tips and the pay-per-view (PPV) feature. The website has 2 million content creators and 130 million users.
• Substack - Wikipedia — Substack is an online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers.

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• John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (Audio) - YouTube — "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver
• Prljavi inspektor Blaza i Kljunovi - Sunce tudjeg neba (Srbijo) - (Official Video) - YouTube
• Apple's Tim Cook on the Future of Fitness | Outside Online — In an extended interview for the Outside Podcast, the CEO talks about the ways technology can help us lead healthier lives and the benefits we get from ignoring our screens
• This Is How Tim Cook Transformed Apple (AAPL) After Steve Jobs - Bloomberg — Apple Is the $2.3 Trillion Fortress That Tim Cook Built
• Who We Are | GRAIL — We are a healthcare company focused on saving lives and improving health by pioneering new technologies for early cancer detection. We have built a multi-disciplinary organization of scientists, engineers, and physicians and we are using the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS), population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to overcome one of medicine’s greatest challenges.

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• Catan - Wikipedia — Catan, previously known as The Settlers of Catan or simply Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as Die Siedler von Catan. Players take on the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop holdings while trading and acquiring resources. Players gain points as their settlements grow; the first to reach a set number of points, typically 10, wins. The game and its many expansions are also published by Catan Studio, Filosofia, GP, Inc., 999 Games, Κάισσα, and Devir.
• Carcassonne (board game) - Wikipedia — Carcassonne (/ˌkɑːrkəˈsɒn/) is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and by Rio Grande Games (until 2012) and Z-Man Games (currently)[1] in English.[2] It received the Spiel des Jahres[3] and the Deutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001.
• Pandemic (board game) - Wikipedia — Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008. Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. The game accommodates two to four players, each playing one of seven possible roles: dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher, operations expert, contingency planner, or quarantine specialist. Through the combined effort of all the players, the goal is to discover all four cures before any of several game-losing conditions are reached.
• Fantasy Flight Games - Wikipedia — Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product (Twilight Imperium) in 1997, the company has been doing business as Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). Since that time, FFG has become one of the biggest names in the hobby games industry, being a marketplace leader in board games and maintaining strong businesses in the card game, roleplaying game, and miniature game categories.[1]
• Cards Against Humanity - Wikipedia — Cards Against Humanity is an adult party game in which players complete fill-in-the-blank statements using words or phrases typically deemed offensive, risqué or politically incorrect printed on playing cards. It has been compared to the 1999 card game Apples to Apples and originated from a Kickstarter campaign in 2011. Its title refers to the phrase "crimes against humanity", reflecting its politically incorrect content.
• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game - Wikipedia — The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing. The first edition extends and modifies the System Reference Document (SRD) based on the revised 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) published by Wizards of the Coast under the Open Game License (OGL) and is intended to be backward-compatible with that edition. The first major revision of the ruleset, Pathfinder 2nd Edition, was released in August 2019.
• Roll20: Online virtual tabletop for pen and paper RPGs and board games — Play games anywhere. Share them with anyone. With Roll20® as your virtual tabletop, your adventures are limitless.
• The Glass Cannon Network | A couple things are gonna happen… — The Glass Cannon Network is a RPG Entertainment Network that endeavors to create captivating epic fantasy, science fantasy, comedy and horror stories accessible to gamers and non-gamers alike.
• Glass Cannon Live! LA - Strange Aeons Session 1 - YouTube — The lovable miscreants behind The Glass Cannon Podcast took their show on the road in October of 2018 to kick off a US Tour at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles.
• TableTop | Geek and Sundry — In this hit show, geek icon Wil Wheaton and a slew of celebrity guests gather to play their favorite board games. Who will win the Trophy of Awesome?

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• 43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders — These are posts from a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by clicking the title.
• Infinite Regress – How I handle email (which is not how everyone should, but you may find some of these useful) — This is all about work email. I have succeeded in transferring most personal communication to Slack, iMessage, and WhatsApp, with a sprinkling of Skype for the grandparents. The sole holdout is Dad, who insists on emailing me links to Serbian tabloid news, child rearing advice, and recipes.
• Infinite Regress – How I handle meetings (which most certainly is not how everyone should, but again, may be useful to some) — It is easier than ever to organize and attend a meeting, which should scare the living daylights out of anyone who doesn’t organize or attend meetings for a living. It used to be that only middle management had to deal with a series of 90-minute meetings all 15 minutes apart in which they had no specific role, which had no effect on their task list, and which left them no better off than they’d be if they had just read the minutes.
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport — Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep—spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.
• xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
• Hook – Links beat searching — Hook enables you to instantly retrieve the information you need. Whether it’s on the web or in one of your favorite apps, with Hook you don’t need to search. Just click on links to access that email, PDF, task or other item — and get your job done fast.
• Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. — A note-taking tool for networked thought. As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.

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• Hobonichi Techo 2021 — The Hobonichi Techo is a life book. It’s a planner notebook you can use as freely as you like and will adapt to the lifestyles of anyone using it. The techo, making improvements over the years based on user input, turns 20 this year!
• Roam Research - A note-taking tool for networked thought.
• Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method — A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.
• As We May Think - Wikipedia — As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society. It was first published in The Atlantic in July 1945 and republished in an abridged version in September 1945—before and after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bush expresses his concern for the direction of scientific efforts toward destruction, rather than understanding, and explicates a desire for a sort of collective memory machine with his concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible, believing that it would help fix these problems. Through this machine, Bush hoped to transform an information explosion into a knowledge explosion.
• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden — The notion of a digital garden is not a 2020 invention. It's been floating around for over two decades. However, it's passed through a couple of semantic shifts in that time, meaning different things to different people across the years. As words tend to do.
• Become a learning worker by creating intermediate packets | Ramses' Blog — When you make the transition from knowledge worker to learning worker, you’ll go through a bunch of paradigm shifts. One such shift is continually seeking feedback, making sure you’re on track, and producing (re)usable blocks of work. Enter intermediate packets, my favorite tool to do effective knowledge work. Coined by Personal Knowledge Management expert Tiago Forte, this single concept has made my productivity increase tenfold.
• Ian Leslie on Conflicted - Econlib — Author Ian Leslie talks about his book Conflicted with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Leslie argues that, far from being a negative thing, conflict is often the essential ingredient that helps us get to the right answer or best solution. Because some of our best thinking comes in collaboration with others, learning how to disagree civilly when our views conflict is the key to productive conversation in business and in marriage. The conversation includes a surprising defense of confirmation bias.
• Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset - Econlib — Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively.
• Royale With Cheese - Pulp Fiction (2/12) Movie CLIP (1994) HD - YouTube — Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta discuss Royale With Cheese