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title: Peanut butter cups & 3 articles
date: 2025-12-16
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# Peanut butter cups & 3 articles

[![I laughed so hard at this caption from Size of Life](./assets/hero.webp)](https://neal.fun/size-of-life/)

*I laughed so hard at this caption from [Size of Life](https://neal.fun/size-of-life/)*

> “Wilderness begins in the human mind.”
>
> — EDWARD ABBEY

This time it’s no hard news, no industry strategy, just fun links.

We’re colliding chocolate chip cookies, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Shakespeare’s secret code, rigging games against Magnus Carlsen and pictures of forests. I’m throwing in three articles we wrote too, in case you missed ‘em.

Please skip around, read what you want to. Find something interesting in your own internet travels? Send me a link

—JH

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*Articles*

## 3 Articles from 2025

In case you missed these or want to revisit them, here are three articles our team wrote this year:

- [Mapping the Next Era of the Internet](../../blog/mapping-the-next-era-of-the-internet.article.md) by [Paul Johnson](../../people/paul-johnson.person.md)
- [4 Lessons Mr. Rogers Taught Me About Teaching](../../blog/4-lessons-mister-rogers-taught-me-about-teaching.article.md) by [Christian Shockley](../../people/christian-shockley.person.md)
- [A Few (Informed) Hot Takes on AI](../../blog/a-few-informed-hot-takes-on-ai.article.md) by [Mark Johnson](../../people/mark-johnson.person.md)

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## Dead Cat

*10 curious links that would have killed the cat*

[@include](./01-size-of-life-compares-the-relative-size-of-all-living-things.link.md)

[@include](./02-wisecrack-is-a-podcast-thats-part-standup-and-part-true.link.md)

[@include](./03-the-best-chocolate-chip-cookies-of-your-life.link.md)

[@include](./04-magnus-carlsen-plays-a-guy-who-started-chess-yesterday-but.link.md)

[@include](./05-decoding-shakespeares-food-references-tell-us-about.link.md)

[@include](./06-otherworldly-photos-of-forests.link.md)

[@include](./07-a-garage-became-a-crisp-art-studio.link.md)

[@include](./08-retrospekt-refurbishes-and-sells-old-electronics-like-vcrs.link.md)

[@include](./09-speaking-of-refurbishing-classics-star-wars-1977-will-be.link.md)

[@include](./10-also-in-classics-how-reeses-peanut-butter-cups-are-made.link.md)

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## New at HQ

*in Greenville, SC*

Here at HQ in Greenville, SC, we’ve been sweeping up.

We run 6-week project cycles for most of the year. But around the holidays and the middle of the summer, we tackle all the little things that pile up at the edges while you’re working fast. I’ve been rebuilding navigation on our public website. Joe’s been upgrading the oldest parts of our platform. Mark’s been writing an academic paper.

A few years ago, Paul explained this to me. The main point of running a profitable company wasn’t, to him, to get rich as fast as possible. It was to spend on margin—a little extra time. Time to make things on Pathwright nicer just because we can. To write a super long prediction of where the web is going. To run a virtual summer camp for you.

This season, I hope you find the margin. Spend some time doing what only you can do—on what you can’t *not* do.

See you next year!

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High five,

[Justin Hall](https://www.pathwright.com/about#humans)\
Editor, Partner at [Pathwright](https://www.pathwright.com/)