Losing the War

That's what everybody assumes going to war means -- putting yourself in danger. But the truth is that for most soldiers war is no more inherently dangerous than any other line of work

How many such visions troubled the peace of the new American suburbs? Nobody has ever inventoried them, but a lot of veterans have described similar dreams. In the decades after the war ended there probably wasn't a single night in which thousands of men across America didn't wake up sweating in terror

there is another and simpler reason the war has been forgotten: people wanted to forget it

A masterfully written long essay on war. It presents a holistic analysis of the Second World War in the full sense of the term.

Losing the War is completely unlike any other WWII piece I've ever read. It's not quite about WWII. I would describe it more as a theory of war using WWII as a point of reference. I highly recommend it.

Losing the War by Lee Sandlin

Let me love

It's a good documentary lasting 52 minutes.

the lives of disabled and able-bodied people who come together for a special dance class. Participants lives are transformed by the power of dancing together, and of falling in love

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Instagram’s Evolution

I like this Ben Thompson analysis which is worth recalling.

It may be hard to remember now, but Instagram didn’t even start as primarily a photo-sharing app: it was a photo-filter app, focused on making photos look good on ancient iPhone cameras and posting them on other social networks. It was a tool that evolved into a network

In the web, evolution is unchanged and the largest companies have to submit to not so much competition as the rush to constantly recycle their current services. You lose when you stand still.

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