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• Mindfulness - Wikipedia — Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention in the present moment without evaluation, a skill one develops through meditation or other training. Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Buddhist traditions, and is based on Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan meditation techniques.
• Waking Up with Sam Harris – Unlock your mind — Whether you’re a beginning or advanced meditator, Waking Up opens the door to a deeper understanding of yourself—and to a new way of being in the world.
• Hobonichi Techo 2022 — The Hobonichi Techo is a Life Book that’s flexible enough to fit the lifestyle and tastes of its user, allowing for freedom in how to use it. The daily page books include the A6 size Original or Planner and the A5 size Cousin. There’s also a weekly book called the Weeks, an undated notebook with monthly calendars called Day Free, and the 5-Year Techo, just to name a few.
• Tools for Thought as Cultural Systems, not Computational Objects — The term tools for thought has become a new rallying point over the last few years. People who might otherwise gather around keywords like personal knowledge management, networked thought, productivity, or knowledge work are reframing their work.
• Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes — Whether you’re plotting your next thriller or writing your dissertation, designing a course, managing a legal practice, coordinating a campaign or planning a season of orchestral concerts, Tinderbox 9 will be your personal information assistant.
• Apple M1 - Wikipedia — The Apple M1 is an ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for its Macintosh computers and iPad Pro tablets. It also marks the third change to the instruction set used by Macintosh computers, 14 years after Apple switched Macs from PowerPC to Intel in 2006. Apple claims the chip has the world's fastest CPU core "in low power silicon" and the world's best CPU performance per watt.
• The Dawn of Everything — A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
• How to Think by Alan Jacobs: 9780451499608 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books — How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.
• Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction - YouTube — First episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
• The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) - IMDb — A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.
• Dune (2021) - IMDb — Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
• The Americans (TV Series 2013–2018) - IMDb — At the height of the Cold War two Russian agents pose as your average American couple, complete with family.
• Twilight Struggle | Board Game | BoardGameGeek — Relive the Cold War and rewrite history in an epic clash between the USA and USSR.
• Death Stranding - Wikipedia — Death Stranding is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their split from Konami in 2015. It was released by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 in November 2019 and by 505 Games for Windows in July 2020. An updated version for PlayStation 5, Death Stranding Director's Cut, was announced in June 2021 and was released on September 24, 2021.
• Priključenija 63: Pathologic — ✓ Kako je minijaturni ruski studio napravio igru bolju od svih AAA naslova? ✓ Koje su najbolje meta-igre? ✓ Po čemu se američki kolektivizam razlikuje od slovenskog?

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• Civilization VI - Wikipedia — Sid Meier's Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy 4X video game developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games, and distributed by Take-Two Interactive.
• SimCity - Wikipedia — SimCity is an open-ended city-building video game series originally designed by Will Wright. The first game in the series, SimCity, was published by Maxis in 1989 and sparked the creation of several sequels and many other spin-off "Sim" titles, including 2000's The Sims, which itself became a best-selling computer game and franchise.
• The ideology hiding in SimCity’s black box — City simulators like SimCity are serious games — the kind that gets coverage well beyond the video game press. The kind of game that appears in school curriculums. The kind of game your non-gaming uncle has probably spent hundreds of hours in. On the surface, they appear to be exactly what they say: a simulation of a city. But any simulation is only as good as the model it’s built on, and the model underpinning SimCity has quite the history. In the video above, I unboxed the secret ideology hiding in the formula that built SimCity, and how that’s reflected in one of the most popular gaming series of all time.
• Europa Universalis IV - Wikipedia — Europa Universalis IV is a grand strategy video game in the Europa Universalis series, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive as a sequel to Europa Universalis III (2007).
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 - Lincoln Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) — The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats. Although Lincoln lost the election, these debates launched him into national prominence which eventually led to his election as President of the United States.
• Chautauqua - Wikipedia — Chautauqua (/ʃəˈtɔːkwə/ shə-TAW-kwə) was an adult education and social movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, showmen, preachers, and specialists of the day. Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was quoted as saying that Chautauqua is "the most American thing in America."

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• Cuphead: Don't Deal With The Devil | Available on Xbox One - Windows 10 - Nintendo Switch – PlayStation 4 - Steam - GOG - Mac — Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era: traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
• Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic - MarketWatch — Global videogame revenue is expected to surge 20% to $179.7 billion in 2020, according to IDC data, making the videogame industry a bigger moneymaker than the global movie and North American sports industries combined. The global film industry reached $100 billion in revenue for the first time in 2019, according to the Motion Picture Association, while PwC estimated North American sports would bring in more than $75 billion in 2020.
• A Long Tail of Whales: Half of Mobile Games Money Comes From 0.15 Percent of Players - Vox — In a mobile monetization report released today, app testing firm Swrve found that in January, half of free-to-play games’ in-app purchases came from 0.15 percent of players. Only 1.5 percent of players of games in the Swrve network spent any money at all.
• The Elder Scrolls | Skyrim 10th Anniversary — Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim celebrates 10 years of adventuring in stunning detail. The Anniversary Edition includes a decade worth of content: the critically acclaimed core game and add-ons of Skyrim Special Edition, plus pre-existing and new content from Creation Club including quests, dungeons, bosses, weapons, spells, and more.
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall - Wikipedia — The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is an open-world action role-playing video game published and developed by Bethesda Softworks. The second game in the Elder Scrolls series, following 1994's The Elder Scrolls: Arena, it was released on September 20, 1996. It was both a critical and commercial success on launch. A successor, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, was released in 2002.
• Steam Deck — Steam Deck brings the Steam games and features you love to a powerful and convenient form factor that you can take wherever you go.
• Inside the GPU Shortage: Why You Still Can't Buy a Graphics Card | PCMag — How scalpers, a pandemic, and a cryptocurrency boom formed a perfect storm that continues to make PC building an exercise in futility.
• Portal (video game) - Wikipedia — Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundle, The Orange Box, for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, and Android (via Nvidia Shield).
• Portal - 'Still Alive' - YouTube — 'Still Alive' from at the end of Portal during the credits.