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Welcome to Thai Island Quest. This article is free for all to read. The next in-depth article like this, about my favorite part of Ko Yao Noi, will be for paying subscribers only. To access it and much more, including the entire Thai Island Directory as it’s being published, welcome aboard for $5 a month. Ko Phi Phi Leh’s towering trilateral cliffs provide a fitting intro to this geological wonder of an island when seen from its larger neighbor, Ko Phi Phi Don, a few km away.

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If you enjoy this newsletter, why not share it with your friends? You can do so with this link. Thank you! With summer, here at least, comes sweet corn. And with sweet corn comes the feeling of ephemerality: Once picked, those sweet-as-sugar kernels turn starchy quickly, meaning the clock is ticking to use your corn up as soon as you bring it home. One of my favorite ways to use sweet corn is in sour corn: A short fermented recipe that is packed with flavor and keeps in the fridge for a couple weeks (and possibly longer, though I have yet to go more than two weeks without eating it all).

On Friday May 3rd, 2024, I had the opportunity to speak with the esteemed Grant Williams and Bill Fleckenstein in an appearance on The Grant Williams Podcast. In this episode, we discussed the Japanese yen, the Chinese renminbi, the outlook for gold, the potential for a US economic soft patch, and other topics related to global macro and the investment landscape. There’s even a little postgame at the end where we kept going offline that they thought would be fun to include!

These photos were taken days before my lover died from brain cancer a decade ago today. I was so forlorn and weak with sadness, but I felt I had to do something fun for Littlehands. So we went apple picking in Long Island. I was trying hard to focus on her and the apples. We went back home that chilly fall day to make applesauce - the one thing that Teddy could still enjoy with all the chemo.

Scrolling through her Spotify recommendations last week, Jessica Dai tipped me to the existence of Egg Punk. I choose to pretend this is not a genre. But Jess also was incredulous that Math Rock was a thing. Little did she know Math Rock is one of my favorite genres. The math rock sound has evolved a lot over the last 30 years, but I love every incarnation of the sound. When I was in college, Math Rock was what you called Progressive Rock played by Indie Rock hipsters.

Google’s NotebookLM is a new free service that lets you apply AI to your own notes and documents. You can use it to surface new ideas and find fresh connections in your thoughts and research. Read on for how I’m using it, what I like most about it, its limitations, and two interesting alternatives. Share Sign up at notebooklm.google.com. It’s free for now, while in beta. Upload up to 50* documents into a collection (or “notebook”) of sources to explore.

Hello everyone, I became active on Twitter and Substack about a year ago. Since then, The Rabbit Hole has come a long way. Twitter activity this month has been great: We sent out 1700+ tweets, exceeded 100 million impressions, and attracted over 100,000 new followers over the last month. In addition to regular tweeting activities, I have begun collaborating with other creators to coordinate Twitter Spaces. We have hosted two spaces so far:

Hi! Welcome back to Claire From Online by me, Claire, from online. And welcome to your April Journaling Prompts! Claire’s note: There is a paywall on here, which is why you may see ‘free preview’, depending on how you’re accessing this post. Prompts are free below, additional content for paying subscribers is behind the paywall. So, quick background if you’re new: In December 2023 I thought up the idea for Not Afraid of Paper in a bubble bath.