New Year, new weekend reads!

Dated: January 2 2025

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Hello! Welcome to 2025! 

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Ethiopian Sidamo Coffee!  and grab a seat in your favorite chair and get ready for some interesting reading.

52  things I learned this year, I took a sabbatical, recorded a podcast with Freakonomics, designed and shipped a tiny modular synthesizer, and learned many learnings By Tom Whitwell. @tomwhitwell

America needs to radically rethink what it means to be old. As 100 year life spans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work and retirement.- theatlantic

American have BILLIONS in unused giftcards-QZ

Our ZESTIMATE obession-businessinsider

Pretty cool local house-rittenhouse square penthouse condo

Food tourism is dead, but something more interesting is emerging-nytimes.com

Recipe of the week!-one pot chicken and rice with caramelized lemon

Podcast I listened to this week-Rich Roll- Best of 2024 episodes

This weeks Dream House-on the North Fork of Long Island

Quote to start the New Year- "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start"- Nido Qubein

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