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• Quinn Norton: Against Productivity
  Quinn Norton wrestles with our productivity culture: "It is a surrender to nothing, to a nothingness of lived accounting."

Thrilled to have played a part in making this portrait of our village tin smithy. https://t.co/wUGDL4j8vg

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) November 7, 2014

• Paul Ford: The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
  A wonderful story about networks, nostalgia, grief, computing history, and emulation.

• Hazlitt Magazine: The Internet's First Family
  This article tells some stories about MetaFilter at its best. "People connect to each other here, is what I’m saying. They get to know each other and they treat each other well."