“Don’t do as you’re told. Don’t believe what you’re supposed to. Don’t write the essay readers expect; one learns nothing from what one expects. And don’t write the way they taught you in school. The most important sort of disobedience is to write essays at all.” — Paul Graham, 2004

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“In the course of creative endeavors, artists and scientists join fragments of knowledge into a new unity of understanding.”  Pioneering psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner on how creativity works themarginalian.org/2014/09/02/not…

I can't believe I'm doing this... I just scraped 450,000 (half a MILLION) real estate agents with email and phone numbers...and I'm giving it away for FREE in the next 24 hours. Retweet + drop and comment and it's yours

NDA expired and can share the business. RT & follow and I'll send what I can

Hot Take: You should not be an investor in SMBs (LP, equity investor, private lender) if you've never owned and operated an SMB. Too easy to get BS'd and not fully understand the risks if you haven't done it.

In praise of being wrong – Lewis Thomas (one of my all-time favorite writers, born 111 years ago today) on the value of generative mistakes themarginalian.org/2023/03/18/lew…

ATMs on the Pa. Turnpike have been down since before Thanksgiving because this Amish-backed electronic payment network failed to pay 2,700 investors $138 million in 13% notes. My story: inquirer.com/business/penns…

FBI agents appear at offices of Lancaster-based ATM network that owes $138M to investors At least a dozen FBI agents were seen at the downtown Lancaster city offices of Daryl Heller and Paramount Management Group. lancasteronline.com/news/local/fbi… via LNP | LancasterOnline

He followed current events so closely that when he looked back over the course of his life he was surprised to find nothing there at all

Dear Incoming Trump Administration (and other interested parties), Healthcare executives are being shot in the street. This your wake-up call to fix the terrible system. Let’s face it: health care in America is broken. We’re spending over $12,000 per person annually—far more

the instant you get an idea you must get out of the way, listen and write it down- because in that moment, as ray bradbury explained, your secret self, your subconscious mind is literally screaming at you what it wants and desires. whitman understood this too, that's why he

In the past twenty years we've built a world where people can go much of their lives without encountering written text. They get their news from tiktok. They learn “history” via instagram memes. This is how you abolish reading. We aren’t prepared for the damage this will bring.

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Below is what people are writing on Twitter where writers and artists hang out…typically in history the first groups to identify trends.

themarginalian.org/2025/09/16/fre… Church and Olmsted collaborate on Central Park and preservation of Niagra Falls and we get a cage match on the Whitehouse lawn