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Every Monday, I write a newsletter breaking down the business in golf. Welcome to the 71 new Perfect Putt members who have joined us since our last newsletter. Join 6,137 intelligent and curious golfers by subscribing below. Pictured above is White Manor Country Club in Malvern, Pennsylvania — a Concert Golf Partners Golf Club. Concert Golf Partners is the leading boutique owner-operator of upscale, private clubs nationwide. Since its founding in 2011, Concert Golf has developed a reputation as the buyer of choice for private club owners seeking to pass the torch to a high-quality operator.

It’s time when we say goodbye to the year 2023. Every year we try coming up with new resolutions, new goals and as the year progresses, we complete some of them and others get left behind due to other priorities. there are ups and downs in life and 2023 was no different. For me also, 2023 brought a lot of health issues as a downside but still I managed to pull off a lot of things as an upside.

Every time I feed my husband soup, he loves it. And yet, every time I ask him if he wants soup for dinner, he says, “bleh, I don’t like soup.” Men. But I know he’s not the only soup-averse person out there! This is a soup for people like George who “don’t like soup.” It is PACKED with nutritious veggies, lentils, grains, and sausage, and the broth has so much flavor, from harissa, lemon, and salty, rich Parm.

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy is a great book, if anything because Rumelt has a lot of great stories and anecdotes to weave in. Chapters 3 and 4, which caution against the different types of bad strategy and explain why it’s so pervasive, are the strongest and most unique of the book. His teardown of “New Thought” in particular was fascinating, and I now find myself more skeptical than ever of anyone who offers a “comprehensive template” for setting your company strategy.

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! Jenny Craig has announced that they are shutting down. While I’m deeply sorry for the stress and unemployment it will cause for the employees who really believed they were helping people (because Jenny Craig told them they were,) as far as the program itself, I say good riddance to bad rubbish.

As a kid, I didn’t have a whole lot of toys, but I have fond memories of owning an “electronics lab” kit. These kits, popularized in the West in the 1980s, had a variety of components mounted on a plastic board, each hooked up to its own set of spring terminals. In the US, you could buy the kits under brand names such as Science Fair, Radio Shack, Ramsey Electronics, and Elenco:

When I was getting my start as a writer, there was a mildly infamous Amazon troll who left one-star reviews on every book in the indie lit scene. (“Indie” then meant published on small literary presses not self-published on Amazon.) Seemingly a failed writer, he took his frustrations out on authors he’d never met or even read. His “reviews” didn’t even pretend to review the books. Most were poorly written poetry akin to “night sky / smeared with poo poo / mosquito my pee hole?

When I signed my latest contract to write for Lived Places Publishing, I had to agree to not use AI-enabled content creation tools like Google’s Bard. I was happy to agree. Large Language Models are helpful in some superficial ways. But they’re absolutely garbage for research and academic writing. Testing my thesis, that Google Bard is currently worthless, I asked a few questions related to my current research needs. I wanted to find research on autistic gestalt language processors not assimilating their language when migrating to another country.

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In an effort to play around with format and stave off looming burnout, this week’s newsletter features three shorter blurbs about recent articles or news events. Below you’ll find some thoughts on: How to think about and understand the extremely funny Google Gemini black-pope controversy A recent interview with LibsofTikTok, one of the most insane people on Twitter The death (?) of scenes and youth subcultures