a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

Did you know, as Victor Mather writes, “After 17 years of Calibri as Word’s default typeface, many users suddenly found themselves typing in a new typeface called Aptos. The change is also affecting the look of PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel?” Mather also relates how one of the goals of Steve Matteson, the designer, was to…

I keep reading and thinking about Alexei Navalny. A few days ago, for example, I learned in 2021 he wrote this in a letter to journalist Yevgenia Albats, “It’s a historical process. Russia is going through it, and we are coming along together. We’ll make it (probably). I am all right, and I have no regrets.…

I’ve been enjoying reading John Edward Huth’s book The Lost Art of Finding Your Way where he describes how “experienced navigators” understand that there is a ”fixed percentage of uncertainty” whenever they are heading towards a destination, even when using a compass, and that margin of error is 5-10%. Hutch writes, and “uncertainties in heading and speed…

I was talking with a friend yesterday about how to navigate the relationship between life and stress and he said, “sometimes it’s like we’re in Max-Q. I asked, “what is that?” As Mark Aevermann explains, “When SpaceX blasts a Falcon Heavy into orbit, it does more than just break payload records. It tests the rocket’s…

When do you choose to restore something or let it be? This question might be asked of a painting, a sculpture, a chair, a house, but then to stretch it a bit farther… how about an idea, a career, a friendship, a project. Restore or let it be? This was a question France faced over…

“Owen Lloyd had just completed the race of his life,” writes Greg Rosenstein in The Athletic.  “The NC State senior hit the wall first… during the final of the 1,650-yard freestyle at the ACC Championship. Unsurprisingly, he was overcome with joy. Lloyd ripped off his goggles and cap and immediately turned to his right to…