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Choosing Between the Mud and the Stars.

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 8/25/19​​​Welcome to a late Sunday night edition of The Polymath Group. I hope it is finding you well. I

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    Mike
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Changing Seasons and Sharing My Work

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 8/16/19Changing SeasonsIt seems weird that summer is already nearing its end. Although it always seems to fly by, it still

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    Mike
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Podcasts (Or; My Friends That Don't Know I Exist.)

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 7/11/19Podcast DilemmaSince starting my ‘Summer Slowdown’ at the beginning of June, things have been going well. I have way less

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    Mike
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A Meta Interlude

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 6/11/19Newsletter Updates and IntrospectionWhen I launched what I think of as version 3.0 of this newsletter, I switched over

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    Mike
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Media Diet Spring 2019

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 5/29/19Media Diet Spring 2019This is an idea I have had for a little while, and by ‘idea I had’ I

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    Mike
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Time is a Flat Circle

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 5/15/19Last night, I sat down at my computer to work on the newsletter. I was there looking over the list

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    Mike
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The Polymath Group Volume 3

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 4/26/19Welcome BackTime has sort of escaped me, but here we are again to give this a shot. A few housekeeping

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    Mike
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Dealing with Death

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 11/16/18Last Friday my mom died. We had a complicated relationship, to say the least. She had a heart attack four

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    Mike
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Vote!

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 11/02/18Unless you have been living under a huge rock lately, you probably know that we are approaching the midterm elections.

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    Mike
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Minimalism

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 10/14/18Most people associate spring with cleaning time, but lately it has become on my mind more and more. Really it

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    Mike
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Happy Birthday

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 10/06/18This week and today (October 6th) bring about my birthday. I decided that I was going to take it easy

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    Mike
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Checking Back on Goals

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 09/29/18I have brought up my book goal a few times lately, but today I am taking a different approach. While

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The Blank Page

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 09/24/18This week has been more of a struggle for me than it should have been. Obviously, this newsletter is much

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    Mike
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A Few Thoughts​

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 09/14/18This week I just a few random thoughts to share, so let's get into it.I mentioned a couple of

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    Mike
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Doubt

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 09/08/18I recently (an hour ago) watched the Mr. Rogers documentary; Won’t You Be My Neighbor. I have many takeaways

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    Mike
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Reading and Attention

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 08/31/18One of my goals this year was to read 25 books, I am way behind. Don’t get me wrong,

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Input Methods

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 08/24/18Ideas come at all sorts of random times. For me, many of these times when my brain starts working on

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Giving Yourself a Few Constraints

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 08/17/18When you do things a certain way, often you don’t think about how other people do things, and you

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    Mike
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Our Hierarchy of Needs

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 08/10/18One of the things that led me to want to get back into doing my newsletter is that I felt

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Welcome Back to the Polymath Group

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 08/02/18Hey there, welcome back to The Polymath Group. It has been some time since I have put out a newsletter,

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    Mike
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Some Thoughts on Facebook

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 04/26/18This issue ended up taking longer than it probably should have, I may be riding the "we have a new

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    Mike
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Movies with Mikey

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 03/05/18I subscribe to quite a few different YouTube channels, but as with everything I am trying to make sure I

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    Mike
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Digital Maintenance

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 02/22/18While I have talked about ways I am trying to be better, a big part of all of our lives

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    Mike
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Following Up

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 02/02/18For some reason, I have been having a harder time doing the newsletter the last couples weeks. I haven’t

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Social Media and the News

Editor's note: This was originally sent out in the newsletter on 1/13/18One thing that I have been working on is being more purposeful with my time. One thing that I am

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