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Essays and media reviews by Justin Duke, CEO of Buttondown and partner at Third South Capital.
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Secondhand Time
It is rare that I review a book before I finish it. Sometimes I do this with bad books that I have not completed - but that is what the Goodreads user base calls DNFing it, explicitly saying that I am not going to finish, and therefore am capital-D done w
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Tech debt is weird
Jesse wrote this interesting article on technical debt, which resonated with me spiritually but not directionally -- which is a very weird way to say that I agree with some parts and disagree with others (so you should read this not as a critique of the p
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Patch notes
Earlier this year I mentioned that Slay the Spire 2 had reached the status of needing to be deleted from my computer, on the grounds that it was proving too big of a distraction. More recently, a second game has reached that same ignoble height - except i
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Near to the Wild Heart
Two friends, upon learning that I wanted to get into Clarice Lispector, advised me not to start with Near to the Wild Heart. Having now finished the book, I think I understand why. The two parallels that come to mind - less in terms of style and message t
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Best of Enemies
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign - a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured mos
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