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I've been enjoying some time away from the Web for the holidays. Hope your year is off to a good start. Here are some recent URLs I enjoyed:

• Quartz: Simone de Beauvoir's daring response to imposter syndrome (existentialism vs. stoicism)
• Wikipedia: Narcissism of small differences (one reason why groups with more similarities than differences fight. cut this out!)
• NiemanLab: Headlines Matter
• The Atlantic: How Marketers Get You to Buy New Stuff
• Hackernoon: 10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world (web performance techniques)
• GitHub: GoogleChrome/lighthouse: Auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for Progressive Web Apps
• Aeon: Sugar is a toxic agent that creates conditions for disease (happy new year! )
• Kevin Rose: Introducing "Zero", a new app to help you fast
• Micro.blog (distributed & aggregated tweet-style weblog system)
• Anil Dash: A billion dollar gift for Twitter
• The Guardian: Joseph Goebbels' 105-year-old secretary: 'No one believes me now, but I knew nothing'