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is that it would take me weeks to recover if someone gave me this card. Or I'd die of happiness.

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Just filled my third daily notebook of the year. It's a Miquelrius spiral with grid pages I got on sale way back. It was sitting in my unused notebook stack for years, and I've finally decided this was the time to use it.

Now I'm starting another notebook from my "too nice to use" pile. This one is from Cognitive Surplus (they have a lot of cool science-themed stationery and housewares) and has dot grid pages, though I think they discontinued this particular size.

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Astronomy Mini Hardcover Notebook by Cognitive Surplus

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Beautiful notebooks inspired by science.

https://cognitive-surplus.com/collections/notebooks

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Chemistry glasses found on Etsy by Cognitive Surplus.

Chemistry of Whiskey

Chemistry of Beer

Chemistry of Wine

Chemistry of Wine (Stemless)

Chemistry of Water

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« Much twentieth-century economics mistakenly assumed that market transactions are an ideal and even default model for human interactions. But some kinds of value can’t be created by markets, only by a set of shared assumptions, which is to say by culture. Adding a price to a previously nonmarket transaction can reduce our willingness to treat each other as people.

[Researchers] instituted a penalty [in six daycare] centers: henceforth, parents would be fined for picking their children up more than ten minutes late. (The other four centers, the control group, operated unchanged.) [The effect of the new rule] on the parents’ behavior was immediate: their lateness increased. The average number of late pickups rose to [...] around twenty a week—nearly triple the pre-fine number.

[...] The fine turned [late pickup time] into a simple fee-for-service transaction, allowing the parents to regard the workers’ time as a commodity, and a cheap one at that. The parents assumed that the fine represented the full price of the inconvenience they were causing, and it seemed to remove any fears that they might suffer some unspecified consequence for abusing the workers’ goodwill.

[...] Once the fine stopped, however, the number of late pickups per week didn’t return to pre-fine levels; in fact, it remained as high as it had been when the fine was in place. Inducing parents to see the day-care workers as participants in a market transaction, rather than as people whose needs had to be respected, had altered the parents’ perceptions of the workers, an alteration that outlived the fine itself. The experiment showed that market transactions are not merely additive to other human motivations; they alter them by their mere presence. Putting a price on something previously outside of market logic can change it fundamentally. »

— Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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