I don't seem to have anything from Cyd stored locally before the re-install today. Guessing it overwrote the first archive?

FWIW I have seen it skip ahead to tweets it already saved previously, but after the update and restart, the new behavior started.

Thank you for the reply! I think I'm in some sort of bug - it asked me to rebuild a local database, I uploaded the same archive as before, and now it is starting from scratch (I have about 9500 tweets). Previously it had gotten to about 55%, but now it is starting at the beginning again.

thank you!

Q: I was downloading HTML copies of my tweets when this update went through, and now Cyd wants me to upload a new archive and start from scratch. Is there a way to pick up where I left off? It takes forever b/c of rate limits (not your fault clearly!).

Private School Demographics — ProPublica Look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.

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@propublica.org has a cool new tool looking at racial segregation in public v private schools.

The first private school listed in San Francisco is the Waldorf School (about 440 students).

Any guesses how many percentage *points* whiter it is than SFUSD?

Underrated SF evening: carnitas burrito from Don Chuy's and city views at dusk from Moscow and Avalon streets.

Set a new best with 700 miles run this year. 🤗😎🤗😎

It seems the best way out of the gloom of winter is to time your reflections and cumulative goals to hit right in the thick of it. Tried and true strategy for feeling great.

Books Year in Review Tracker 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Tracker Reviews, data, and books-to-read from 2016 - present are here: Rolling All Time Favorite Books Note: happy to make more personal recommendations -...

Thank you so much for reading!

7 years of annual book reviews, my all time favorite books, and mini-reviews on every book read since 2016 are here:

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(2) A swing toward more white authors than the last few years.

I’m not sure why - snowballing effect w/some authors, reading nonfiction, more from “best of” lists that probably skew that way. My cumulative averages didn’t change much. I guess these are pretty durable by now.

Trends:
(1) It felt like a lower volume year, but I wound up within two hundredths of a percentage point of my annual average pages read.

I lost my 3+ year Kindle app weekly reading streak though, and then lost it again at about 6 months. Sad!

My recommendations wish list for next year:
-Your all time favorites
-Great literary fantasy
-Compact fiction that packs a punch
-Nonfiction on raising infants / parenting

What do you got?

More:
-The Consequences (Fresno short stories w/range & v. high floor)
-Chronicle of a Death Foretold (read best as dark comedy)
-We The Animals (families can be very rough)
-The Good Lord Bird (terrific concept)
-A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (writing advice is life advice)

5. The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera.

In a year of disappointing fantasy and sci-fi, this was a terrific go at blending modernity, fantasy, and Sri Lanka. Glad I pushed through a bewildering first 25%.

4. Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior.

Loved this one! I learned about Brazil, rurality, quilombos, spirituality… it all holds together so well.

3. My Beautiful Friend by Elena Ferrante.

Terrific in so many dimensions, and much more approachable and readable than I expected given the weight of expectations ("best book of the CENTURY!")

2. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson.

Like looking through a tiny, sepia telescope lens to see the great big universe of America. I hope I read this several times in my life.

Next 5 Favorites:
1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

A clever, rip-roaring best-seller for a reason, with themes near to my identity as extra sauce? Pretty good recipe for success. If you’re in a reading rut, give this a try.

Maybe there are higher returns here since I read a lot of Irish stuff last year? Or maybe Keegan is coming fast for the pantheon of short story writers?

You can pick up something of hers today, finish it, and carry it with you forever. Reading is great.

Favorite: Claire Keegan.

I could have easily picked the next three on this list, but something brought me back to Keegan’s work. Small Things Like These and Foster are so damn good, where every little piece of the puzzle snaps together.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold a dark comedy for the ages…

Sprinkle in superb short stories from Alice Munro, Manuel Muñoz, Jaime Cortez, Lucia Berlin, and finish with a re-read of Piranesi.

Whisper it: More is Less!

I just devoured everything by Claire Keegan, who’s doing just about all you hope for in short stories.

Train Dreams is an American epic in miniature,

We The Animals a heartbreaking family saga,

Crooked Plow sets the bar for chronicling rurality (among many other themes),

🧵 My 2024 Book Review: The Year of Compact Fiction?

(Or is my attention span frazzling? We may never know!)

Every year, I do an annual review of books I've read. It helps me reflect, hopefully puts some good sparks into the world, and brings in new recommendations for me.

I'm going to lob it into this app for the first time and see what comes back. Here we go:

Just a boy,
standing in front of a website,
trying to read content it published.

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Help! I've started braising daikon radish I can't stop.

Fry ginger & onions, then add daikon (make sure to peel well - edge can be a little tough).

Next: a few cups of water + mixture of light soy sauce, fish sauce, brown sugar, and Shaoxing cooking wine.

Finish: black pepper & scallions.

America’s $30B/year aid agency is embracing direct cash to reduce poverty | GiveDirectly For the first time, USAID is embracing the large body of cash research and recognizing that cash can reduce poverty in addition to being useful in crises.

ICYMI: Major updates on how USAID (the world's largest aid agency) thinks about cash transfers.

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The slow boring of hard boards and all that...

Very, very close! It's on the hill up above them, on the trails leading into the VA complex.

How GiveDirectly increased donations by over $3 million/year through experimentation Wins, misses, and lessons from GiveDirectly’s donation-optimizing journey

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