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Cofounder @leanpub Host of the Frontmatter podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUeW7hrYTk8yxF6XuKpwKPsVe5iiGHmKn My posts are mostly about books, authors, & animals

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Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...

"January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925!"

web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

31.12.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic full of stats on vehicle inefficiencies.

Graphic full of stats on vehicle inefficiencies.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

04.11.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 490    πŸ” 186    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 15
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Leanpub Book LAUNCH πŸš€ Effective Coding with AI: Principles for Productive & Safe Agentic Programming by Brett Chalupa It's a new era of software development. Agentic editing has fundamentally changed the craft. New AI-powered programming tools are launched weekly.

Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video forΒ Effective Coding with AI: Principles for Productive & Safe Agentic ProgrammingΒ by Brett Chalupa!

Read & watch on our blog here:
leanpub.com/blog/leanpub...

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #booklaunch #programming #coding #ai #softwaredevelopment

12.11.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Slate Pears Can you find all the words? Can you find the best pear words? Can you beat your friends?

I scored 294 points in Pears today!

⭐️ ⭐️ 🍐 🍐 🍐 ⭐️ ⭐️

slate.com/games/pears

12.11.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New πŸ“š Release! The First-Time CEO: 50 Conversations on Leading While Becoming by Victoria Loskutova

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: leanpub.com/firsttimeceo

#books #newreleases #business #MBA #CEO #management #career #success

08.11.2025 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Course Release! Composing Software: An Exploration of Functional Programming and Object Composition in JavaScript by Eric Elliott

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: leanpub.com/c/composings...

#courses #programming #newreleases

06.11.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Spotlight: The Cybernetic Enterprise: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization by Romano Roth

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: leanpub.com/CyberneticEn...

#books #ebooks #management #businessstrategy #agile #lean #scrum #enterprisearchitecture #leadership

30.10.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have a print-ready PDF export option for people who want to go eg to KDP etc πŸ˜€

24.10.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
 Grey cat looks to the side, standing near a backpack and a sweatshirt

Grey cat looks to the side, standing near a backpack and a sweatshirt

It's after midnight!!!! Everyone say happy 17th birthday, Willow!!!

Now not only can she drive a car, she can drink legally at home in QuΓ©bec!!

24.10.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3330    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 9
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New πŸ“š Release! Push to Prod or Die Trying: High-Scale Systems, Production Incidents, and Big Tech Chaos by Matthew Hawthorne

Build high-volume systems.

Thrive through sociotechnical challenges.

Survive gruesome production incidents.

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: leanpub.com/pushtoprodor...

#books

24.10.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

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Limberlost Place: Toronto’s timber tower aims high Limberlost stretches building codes and gives architects and engineers a new system of open-sourced solutions

WANT: wooden high-rises, like this academic building in Toronto. Better than steel-and-concrete in nearly every way β€”Β including smell.

(I just learned about them via @clivethompson.bsky.social's terrific newsletter.)

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

#sustainability #architecture #highered

10.10.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It comes with hours of exclusive video interviews I recorded with the authors discussing tons of technical subjects - understanding AI is key to using it

05.10.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Course Release! R Programming for Data Science by Roger D. Peng

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: leanpub.com/c/rprogramming

#courses #newreleases #rprogramming #datascience

02.10.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Discovering My Brain’s Native Language | Jane Friedman An AuDHD writer considers where her mind’s fragmentary and circular style of expression fits in a paradigm of linear storytelling.

What if your life experiences do not necessarily translate into β€œgood” writing? Christina Larocco describes how her writing is circular, referential, fragmentedβ€”all qualities typically identified as weaknesses.

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Announcing the Winner of the Leanpub GlobalAuthor Max Grand Prize Giveaway! We're excited to announce the winner of our very first GlobalAuthor Max Grand Prize Giveaway: Ready: Why Most Software Projects Fail and How to Fix It by Luniel de Beer and Max Guernsey, III.

From the Leanpub Blog: Announcing the Winner of the Leanpub GlobalAuthor Max Grand Prize Giveaway!

leanpub.com/blog/announc...

#books #ebooks #selfpublishing #leanpublishing

20.09.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Masterclass About the Track: AI Masterclass Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the way we live, work, and build technology. The AI Masterclass Track brings together three powerful courses from world-class…

AI Masterclass leanpub.com/set/leanpub/... by Henrik Kniberg, Obie Fernandez, and Andriy Burkov is the featured Track on the Leanpub homepage!

Boost your understanding of this world-changing technology - invest in your ability to use AI by actually understanding what it is and how it works

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Got A Car Alarm? Get Rid Of It They’re idiotic, selfish forms of noise pollution that do nothing to deter crime

ah, the sweet and dulcet music of a car alarm braying in the street down the block

for about 15 minutes straight

I have *thoughts* on car alarms, and a few years ago wrote them down (gift link): clivethompson.medium.com/got-a-car-al...

02.09.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Missed the Livestream Video for Friday, August 29, 2025? Check it out here!

youtu.be/HwrRbkkygR0

In this video, Peter and Len discuss the latest Lean Publishing Daily newsletter email, and some amazing deals on brand new Leanpub courses - & a special course track - that will expire on September 3

02.09.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Leanpub book LAUNCH πŸš€ The Inner Workings of Large Language Models by Roger Gullhaug #books #llms #ai
Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for The Inner Workings of Large Language Models: How Neural Networks Learn Language… Leanpub book LAUNCH πŸš€ The Inner Workings of Large Language Models by Roger Gullhaug #books #llms #ai

Leanpub book LAUNCH πŸš€ The Inner Workings of Large Language Models: How Neural Networks Learn Language by Roger Gullhaug

Watch here: youtu.be/ZAEz8ea0Bwo

#books #booklaunch #llms #ai #language #nlp #machinelearning #neuralnetworks #deeplearning #science

20.08.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PARIS: 65% of trips in Paris are already walking trips, and that’s growing by design. Over 300 million € will have been invested by 2026. 230ha of streets & squares are already pedestrianized. Over 200 β€œschool streets” have been closed to cars and turned into new β€œpedestrian hearts.” Via @paris.fr

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Leanpub book LAUNCH πŸš€ The Grind: An IT Consultant’s Handbook by Vesa TΓ€hkΓ€vuori #books #newreleases
Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for The Grind: An IT Consultant’s Handbook https://leanpub.com/thegrind by Vesa TΓ€hkΓ€vuori! About the Book The Grind – An IT Consultant’s Handbook is the… Leanpub book LAUNCH πŸš€ The Grind: An IT Consultant’s Handbook by Vesa TΓ€hkΓ€vuori #books #newreleases

Leanpub book LAUNCH πŸš€ The Grind: An IT Consultant’s Handbook by Vesa TΓ€hkΓ€vuori

Watch it here: youtu.be/ng8u242mezc

#books #ebooks #newreleases #booklaunch #consulting #technology #programming #management

15.08.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives & don’t slow traffic. Implement them.β€” @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social.

β€œDespite what detractors might claim, 20mph speed limits haven’t actually made journeys slower because journey times are largely dictated by junction delays, not vehicle speed.”

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What's the difference between a new "version" of a book, and a new "edition" of a book? | Leanpub Help Center Keywords: version, edition, new

What's the difference between a new "version" of a book, and a new "edition" of a book? | Leanpub Help Center

11.08.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YOU WANT TO KNOW ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA

You get to interact with humans you'd likely not have contact with IRL/meatspace because our worlds in meatspaces are limited by time/money/distance/access.

DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW HOW FUCKING COOL IT IS HOW MANY SCIENTISTS ARE ON HERE

08.08.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1507    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 32

What if every city that talked about β€œVision Zero” actually meant it?

#VisionZero

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Planet Caravan (2012 - Remaster)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic Planet Caravan (2012 - Remaster)

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Ozzy Osbourne died this week at 76. He was 21 in 1970 when he sang this trippy song for Black Sabbath's second album. Very different from their usual metal, it sounds like a mellow number from one of that era's psychedelic/prog rock bands, like Traffic. See you around.

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β€œThere’s a character named Locke! You like philosophy Len, I bet you’ll love this show!” It’s strangely consistent, dunno if anyone’s ever written about β€œnegative aesthetics” or something like that

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Lost for me has always been one of those touchstones where if someone likes it, I can pretty much guarantee I’ll hate anything else they recommend

13.07.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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