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Take some time to nap next to your own private exclusive swimming pool, this high end pool is a great place to wind down after a long night entertaining, so ...

The calming sounds of falling water.

It is a quiet beach at sunset. It is a wooden deck of a cozy hut. There is also a bench where you can lie down comfortably. Lay down on a bench, watch the pe...

Waves, a fire, sunset

8 hours of a cozy bedroom ambience where you hear the rain against the rooftop windows and listen to the crackling of the fire as you read your favorite book...

Enjoy the sounds of a crackling fire, rain, and turning pages.

Enjoy the relaxing atmosphere of this tropical beach cafe ambience with instrumental beach music, softly crashing waves, birds, and soft chatter in the backg...

Go to the beach from the comfort of your own home!

“In the spring of 1942, as World War II was raging, the U.S. National Defense Research Committee convened a meeting of scientists and engineers to consider devices to aim and fire anti-aircraft guns. The Blitzkrieg, a brilliant military tactic based on rapid attacks by German dive bombers, made the matter urgent. The committee examined a number of designs, which they noticed fell into two broad categories. One directed antiaircraft fire by constructing a mechanical or electrical analog of the mathematical equations of fire control, for example, by machining a camshaft whose profile followed an equation of motion. The other solved the equations numerically—as with an ordinary calculating machine, only with fast electrical pulses instead of mechanical counters. One member of the committee, Bell Telephone Laboratories mathematician George Stibitz, felt that the term pulse was not quite right. He suggested another term that he felt was more descriptive: digital. The word referred to the method of counting on one’s fingers, or digits. It has since become the adjective that defines social, economic, and political life in the twenty-first century.”

-- Computing by Paul Ceruzzi, from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

Cookbooks inspired by the world-building of D&D, wizards, Tolkien, and more

Read “What Makes a Leader?” by Daniel Goleman, an article originally published in the Harvard Business Review which examines the emotional intelligence skills that go into making a successful leader. Highly recommend! Read the article for free here: https://thisisthrive.com/sites/default/files/What-Makes-a-Leader-Daniel-Goleman.pdf

Fun fact: What we see in our peripheral vision has been shown by research to be more quickly significant to our amygdala than what we see in our central vision, and also more important for our ability to grasp what a picture means and its context.

The Night Circus is absolutely enchanting! It is a perfect balance of novelty and heart.

Quote of the day: "Play theorist Brian Sutton-Smith has written over 50 books on what play means in our lives as children and as adults. Sutton-Smith says, “The opposite of play is not work—it’s depression.” When our lives are infused with play, we’re able to see the absurd in the serious and find excitement in the mundane." -- John M. Gottman

Samwise Gamgee from LOTR

A Memory Called Empire

Reading the 2020 Hugo winner for Best Novel is like reading a political mystery story written in the form of a poem. The book is ambitious, clever, symbolic, and lyrically evocative. Definitely a tour de force.

Played All Bad Cards and it was a good time! https://allbad.cards

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