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Dominic Rivard

@djrivard

Into wine, cider, music, bike adventures and make my living helping others explore these passions. I write and I like to share. 👉 linktr.ee/djrivard

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Grape wine people and fruit wine people pretend the other doesn't exist. Meanwhile, co-fermenting them together makes better wine than either produces alone. Wrote about the chemistry—and why this category doesn't have a name yet. open.substack.com/pub/fruitwine/… #fruitwine #winemaking

Grape wine people and fruit wine people pretend the other doesn't exist.
Meanwhile, co-fermenting them together makes better wine than either produces alone.
Wrote about the chemistry—and why this category doesn't have a name yet. open.substack.com/pub/fruitwine/…
#fruitwine #winemaking
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Unpopular opinion: Most "training" for bike touring is just procrastination in spandex. Your body adapts in 10 days on the road. Your basement trainer will never teach you to sit with discomfort, loneliness, or three straight days of rain. There is no such thing as ready.

Unpopular opinion: Most "training" for bike touring is just procrastination in spandex.  

Your body adapts in 10 days on the road. Your basement trainer will never teach you to sit with discomfort, loneliness, or three straight days of rain.  
There is no such thing as ready.
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New book published: The 47-Second Reset: Micro-Practices for Living with Intention on Gumroad djrivard1.gumroad.com/l/47seconds #Mindset #reclaimyourfocus #meditation

New book published: The 47-Second Reset: Micro-Practices for Living with Intention on <a href="/Gumroad/">Gumroad</a> djrivard1.gumroad.com/l/47seconds 
#Mindset #reclaimyourfocus #meditation
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A late-night song for anxious minds and tired faith. “I'll Seek You First” is out now. Listen here: open.substack.com/pub/selahsound… #contemporarychristianmusic #musiclyrics #matt633

A late-night song for anxious minds and tired faith.

“I'll Seek You First” is out now.

Listen here: open.substack.com/pub/selahsound…
#contemporarychristianmusic #musiclyrics #matt633
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The average person switches tasks every 47 seconds. You're supposed to feel broken about this. But half those switches are self-initiated. You're not being hijacked. You're escaping. Which means the solution isn't more discipline. It's learning what 47 seconds can actually

The average person switches tasks every 47 seconds.
You're supposed to feel broken about this.

But half those switches are self-initiated. You're not being hijacked. You're escaping.

Which means the solution isn't more discipline. It's learning what 47 seconds can actually
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The haze that won't clear, the must that won't press, the yield that disappoints, often not "difficult fruit." Wrong enzyme. New article published: Which molecular scissors actually work on which fruits? open.substack.com/pub/fruitwine/… #fruitwine #winemaking #winemakingtips

The haze that won't clear, the must that won't press, the yield that disappoints, often not "difficult fruit."
Wrong enzyme.
New article published: Which molecular scissors actually work on which fruits? 
open.substack.com/pub/fruitwine/…
#fruitwine #winemaking #winemakingtips
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Watching Davos, broken supply chains, old alliances fraying, it doesn't feel like collapse. It feels like an edit. The draft went on too long. Made too many promises. Forgot what it was supposed to say. The red pen is out. The manuscript is back in your hands. Read on:

Watching Davos, broken supply chains, old alliances fraying, it doesn't feel like collapse. It feels like an edit.

The draft went on too long. Made too many promises. Forgot what it was supposed to say.

The red pen is out. The manuscript is back in your hands.

Read on:
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A driver experiences roadkill as a thump. Maybe a brown shape in peripheral vision. A cyclist is slow enough to see the open eye that reflects nothing. The hands that look too much like reaching. I wrote about what the shoulder of the road teaches you about being alive. New essay

A driver experiences roadkill as a thump. Maybe a brown shape in peripheral vision.
A cyclist is slow enough to see the open eye that reflects nothing. The hands that look too much like reaching.
I wrote about what the shoulder of the road teaches you about being alive.
New essay
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A "30% chance of rain" is a statement about a region. You are not a region. You're a person on a bicycle under a specific column of sky that's been broadcasting exactly what's coming. New piece on reading weather without a phone. open.substack.com/pub/cycletouri… #weatherforcast

A "30% chance of rain" is a statement about a region.
You are not a region. You're a person on a bicycle under a specific column of sky that's been broadcasting exactly what's coming.

New piece on reading weather without a phone.
open.substack.com/pub/cycletouri…
#weatherforcast
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You already paid for the fruit. You already pressed it. So why are you throwing the rest away? Berry pomace can make a deeply coloured, low-ABV piquette that’s better than most grape versions—and I explain exactly why, and how to do it safely. The second press matters.

You already paid for the fruit.
You already pressed it.
So why are you throwing the rest away?

Berry pomace can make a deeply coloured, low-ABV piquette that’s better than most grape versions—and I explain exactly why, and how to do it safely.

The second press matters.
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Your brain has a creative department. It only opens when you stop working. I wrote about the neuroscience of why your best ideas show up in the shower and never at your desk, and why the most productive thing you'll do today looks like doing nothing. open.substack.com/pub/thinkingro…

Your brain has a creative department. It only opens when you stop working. 

I wrote about the neuroscience of why your best ideas show up in the shower and never at your desk, and why the most productive thing you'll do today looks like doing nothing.
open.substack.com/pub/thinkingro…
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A farmer in the Lot Valley once shoved a colander of plums at me while I was dying on a hill with a loaded touring bike. Couldn't tell you where his house is. Can tell you exactly what those plums tasted like. Wrote about why the stuff between landmarks is the whole trip:

A farmer in the Lot Valley once shoved a colander of plums at me while I was dying on a hill with a loaded touring bike. Couldn't tell you where his house is. Can tell you exactly what those plums tasted like. Wrote about why the stuff between landmarks is the whole trip: