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Feb 8, 2024: The best kind of education is entertainment.

Feb 7, 2024: Classical music is not boring.

Feb 7, 2024: Excel painter

Feb 7, 2024: Search engine for small webs.

Feb 3, 2024: Books are the original social media.

Feb 2, 2024: I Wrote Morning Pages for Two Weeks

Feb 2, 2024: Ignore what’s new. Know what’s old.

Feb 1, 2024: writing > publishing > marketing > decorating

Jan 31, 2024: The intellect is a great danger to creativity … because you begin to rationalize and make up reasons for things, instead of staying with your own …

Jan 31, 2024: Creativity in the age of AI

Jan 31, 2024: My Input and Output Current input: Books. Blogs. Conversations with wife, mom, and a few friends. Podcasts. TV shows and movies. News. Social media. …

Jan 30, 2024: Knowing what to know and what not to know seems essential to our well-being.

Jan 30, 2024: You and Your Research by Richard Hamming I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 …

Jan 30, 2024: Feeling down? Watch post-it stop motion.

Jan 30, 2024: Just watched The Last Knit for the first time.

Jan 30, 2024: Is there a website for RSS feed curation? I’d like to discover more bloggers who publish often.

Jan 30, 2024: How would you define creativity?

Jan 28, 2024: Trying out MarkEdit. Thank you Nicholas for the extensive reviews of all markdown editors.

Jan 28, 2024: Just found out about Public Domain Radio.

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Jan 28, 2024: One of my Internet friends messaged me about broken links on my website. Now, I’m using Broken Link Checker to fix the links. Whoa, too many …

Jan 27, 2024: I just published a new essay: Yes, I Am an Artist.

Jan 27, 2024: Korean conglomerates(chaebols) stopped the iPhone from entering the market for years. They now kicked Twitch out for not paying enough network fees. …

Jan 27, 2024: Stripe is still not supported in S. Korea. What a shame. Creators in this country can’t be connected to the global infrastructure on the …

Jan 26, 2024: Editor’s Note: Consumer Reports has a business relationship with LiveRamp and another data broker, Acxiom. Consumer Reports shares data with each of …

Jan 26, 2024: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about …

Jan 26, 2024: My first Mac

Jan 25, 2024: What is Twitter anymore? Not the platform for surfacing information-dense articles, but rather mostly shouting and videos. …

Jan 25, 2024: I’m puzzled that Xi keeps feeling the need to tighten political restrictions around society. Controls on free expression are stronger than they have …

Jan 24, 2024: Halla Library. Jeju, South Korea.

Jan 24, 2024: The best thing about being a baker. I can always bake pizza for my loved ones.🍕❤️

Jan 23, 2024: Korean banks are constantly releasing convoluted apps with awful UI/UX. The banks are excellent at one thing. Suffocating the market with regulations …

Jan 23, 2024: 오늘의 도덕경: 칭찬이나 비판에 과잉반응하고 싶지 않다면, ‘나’라는 에고의식을 버려야 한다. 내가 없다면 충격 받을 일도 없다.

Jan 23, 2024: Is there any other options to host static websites besides Github Pages, Netlify, and Vercel? Currently using Netlify Pro, and I want to know if I …

Jan 22, 2024: “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, …

Jan 22, 2024: Am I too naive to believe the best content is the best marketing?

Jan 22, 2024: We need more self-hosted platforms for personal publishing that aren’t Wordpress. And don’t point me to Hugo or Netlify or Eleventy or all those …

Jan 22, 2024: Is there any way I can incorporate Micro.blog’s json feed into my hugo website? I want to create a page with all my posts on Micro.

Jan 21, 2024: A week ago at my office, I taught 5 people how to set up a personal blog. We used Porkbun for a custom domain and Mataroa.blog for everything else. I …

Jan 21, 2024: Just added navigation to my blog. Tweaked a bunch of css as well. Now I can sleep well. kangminsuk.com

Jan 20, 2024: A few years ago, I made a Typeform for interviewing parents. The form had questions like “When was the happiest moment of your life?” and …

Jan 20, 2024: Her name is Ban-ban.

Jan 20, 2024: Currently reading: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 📚 A high school assignment I haven’t finished.

Jan 20, 2024: Currently reading: Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein 📚 Partisan identity in the US has become a mega identity. Korean politics is polarized as …

Jan 19, 2024: Here’s my laptop stand.

Jan 19, 2024: Does the world need my books? I’m writing a book about death. This book will be Jagunbae’s first publication. I was nervous when I decided to close my restaurant to …

Jan 19, 2024: South Korea, the land of lowest fertility rate and highest suicide rate.

Jan 19, 2024: My favorite blogging platforms and tools. I plan to update this page regularly. kangminsuk.com/blog/blog…

Jan 19, 2024: What is your choice of RSS reader? Seems like Miniflux is the best one out there.

Jan 18, 2024: Bertrand Russell Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. . . . The best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, …

Jan 18, 2024: I don’t have to be the greatest. I only need to be truthful and honest. Just try my best. Die trying.

Jan 17, 2024: I’ve been using vore.website as my rss reader, but the service is down for two days. I emailed the developer but no answer. I have about 50 …

Jan 17, 2024: A question: how many people are actually active on Micro.blog?

Jan 17, 2024: Notes from Being Mortal by Atul Gawande “What tormented Ivan Ilyich most,” Tolstoy writes, “was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was …

Jan 17, 2024: Instagram made me anxious, Twitter made me jealous, and blogging made me lonely. What’s the right balance? I’m giving Micro.blog a try.

Jan 17, 2024: 오늘의 도덕경 일을 이룬 다음에는 뒤로 물러서라. 그것이 하늘의 길이다.

Jan 8, 2024: Why I Like Books *This is a translated version of Ko's original essay in Korean. I've never told anyone that I like books. My reading habit has always been on and off. …

Jan 2, 2024: Books Only - Read Without Distractions What if you could spend a day reading books in a quiet space? No need to feel the urge to check Instagram, YouTube, and Email. No need to worry about …