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Keeper’s Corner
Friday is already our day. You vote, you argue with a friend, you wait. Here is one more thing worth opening while you do.
Every Friday, Tim Ferriss sends five things he found that week. A book, a gadget, a strange little habit, a question he cannot stop chewing on. It takes about two minutes to read and it usually leaves you with one thing you want to try before Monday.
Free, and about the length of a Choice.
One thing, since we tell each other things here. It only comes on Fridays, so give it two. Open the first one, then catch the next. That is when you find out whether it is for you.
Sunday. The bedroom, first light.
She woke before him for once, cold at the edges, and lay in the gray with the blinds up, watching the ceiling arrive. She said both columns to herself before her feet touched the floor. It was going to be that kind of day. Best to open the ledger early.
Go, said the first column. He has a year you never saw. He has the cards, the cheating, the losing right; if he has that much, there is more in the envelope of him, and eleven o'clock is the only appointment anyone has offered you in one and a half years. The trail is warm. Somebody keeps it warm. Go and find out who is holding the match.
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