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Bell Labs Holmdel. From Severance season 2, episode 5.

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Sometimes in a journaling session it's hard to get yourself writing. You need a kickstart, an idea to latch onto and get your brain moving. I know I do when it's 5:30am and I sit down to write.

So I built a simple tool for displaying journaling prompts called Muse. It's open source on GitHub. You can run it yourself and edit a single file to add or modify the prompts it uses.

This is the first entry in my mission to ship at least one small tool or product each month this year.

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New York and Erie Railroad diagram, 1855.

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The Headhunters perform "Sly", 1974.

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Two phenomenal records to start a recording career.

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Western Electric Plant. Cicero, IL.

Western Electric was the captive equipment arm of the Bell System and produced the majority of the telephones and related equipment used in the U.S. for almost 100 years.

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Nantucket Sleigh Ride. John Stobart.

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A Chapel in the High Mountains. Hugo Hodiener.

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"They died to make the desert bloom"

Hoover Dam bas relief.

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Bell Labs Holmdel Complex. New Jersey.

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Winged Figures of the Republic. By Oskar Hansen at Hoover Dam, 1937.

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Our levels of productivity, creativity, and inspiration have an intimate, hard-to-articulate connection to our environments. And we all have different predilections — quiet vs. noisy, calm vs. bustling, light vs. dark. Each quality creates a climate that pulls something different out of us.

Our surroundings shape how we work, yet we also have the power to choose and to mold them ourselves.

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Fantasy Landscape with Buildings by a Lagoon. Francesco Guardí, 1790.

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Map of the Bell Telephone System, 1909.

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Bird absolutely locked in. Charlie Parker and Tommy Potter, 1947.

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The Count and the Duke. Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

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The dome of Sta Maria Della Salute. Venice.