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If you’re working at a hyper-growth digital health solution, you’re probably discussing buy vs. build decisions on a daily basis. Should we build our own EMR or should we go with a solution like Canvas Medical or Athena? How hard can scheduling be? We don’t need INSERT_SOLUTION for that; we can do that ourselves All the billing solutions are trash, let’s reinvent the billing wheel Deciding if you want to buy a specific product or build it yourself is probably one of the most difficult decisions your company has to make.

“You’ve got to be able to hit the ball hard. Nobody plays golf to putt.” — Joel Pritchard, inventor of pickleball With the help of several high-profile and well-heeled backers, pickleball has been making waves in North America since it first caught on during the pandemic. “Fastest growing sport in the US” has been the usual lede to the point of sloganization. Naturally, this has led some within tennis circles to question if pickleball’s explosive growth is a threat to tennis.

Below are stories collected from two friends, years apart, about what they both independently called “not deer.” I should mention that Liz, the narrator of the first story, is a hunter and very familiar with chronic wasting disease. CWD is a prion infection like mad cow, and is sometimes known as “zombie deer disease” because it makes them all messed up and weird. It’s probably responsible for this remarkably horrifying 4chan post:

Happy holiday season, Caftan readers. To start, I want to thank all of you for the support in 2023, paid or unpaid. Caftan has had some big growth this year, with some great interviews under its belt (can you belt a caftan?), and I’m particularly grateful for blogs like Kenneth Walsh’s Kenneth in the 212 and Matthew Rettenmund’s Boyculture that have picked up my interviews and brought more readers my way.

The other day I was talking to someone about my job and how it’s sometimes hard to separate between cooking for work and cooking for fun. See cooking and teaching has always been my passion, but now that it’s also my full time job it presents some challenges such as the occasional burnout and the loss of just cooking for fun. Lately, I have been making sure that at least once a week I get a chance to cook something new without a real plan and just have fun in the kitchen.

Good morning! Not everything has to be an effort. Here are a few very easy, basic-but-delicious things to make when you’re starving but the idea of cooking makes you want to lie down. Note: these are not healthy suggestions for balanced family meals. They’re for knackered adults who are hungry and keen to get back to bingeing Ripley. All the eggs, obviously. See also Ed Smith’s fantastic egg book. There’s nothing in it I don’t want to make.

The first week of culinary school is not spent in front of a stove.  The first week is spent learning how not cut your fingers off or send your classmates to the burn ward.  Your accomplishments include holding a knife like a chef and figuring out the correct angle to hone your knife on a steel.  You spend a lot of time learning your way around the various cuts of onion, carrot, and celery.

We have just approved the Food Forest Bible formats for printing, and we are going to have more versions than we originally planned for - here is why: The Main book is HARD BOUND GLOSS and Premium White Gloss Paper with Full Color inside. Literally over 500 pages of eye popping-high-detail color. This amazing book is a coffee table quality, family keepsake and is made to last generations being pass down and used by your family.

Every good marketer understands the power of language. In the case of waste, word choice helps normalize an unnatural take-make-waste linear system of production. The pedantic editor in me would like to update a few misleading terms that validate this unsustainable system. The term “food waste” sounds like a natural stage of food production—sowing seeds; tending crops; harvesting and processing food; distributing food; and finally, sending hundreds of millions of pounds of that food to an overburdened landfill.