Dive into today’s intriguing reads! From speculation about digital publishing’s future in 2024 to the craft of building your own GPS receiver. Get philosophical with 11 life-simplifying razors, understand why suppressing boredom could zap your work productivity, and maximize your terminal setup for better efficiency. Ever wondered about the ultimate grilled cheese? We explore 56 varieties! Plus, delve into birth order dynamics and discover why de-atomization might just be the key to happiness.

• What does digital publishing look like in 2024?: The latest publishing news, jobs, analysis, comment, interviews and in-depth features about UK newspaper, magazine and online publishers.
• Building a GPS Receiver, Part 1: Hearing Whispers: Have you ever noticed that your Maps app still works during a flight? It can feel illicit, like someone just forgot to turn off the signal, and that watching yourself crawl along the earth should be done without drawing undue attention. A few months ago I learned that there were only around 30 GPS satellites serving the entire planet. This piqued my interest, because it reminded me of the 13 root DNS servers from which all resolution flows. Perhaps GPS has a similar design in which the ‘source of truth’ is diluted by several layers of signal repeaters? I navigated to gps.gov, and was presented with this delightful image. I became even more excited to learn about what these satellites do!
• 11 Philosophical Razors to Simplify Your Life: A collection of eleven philosophical razors; principles that can simplify your life by getting rid of useless or unlikely explanations.
• Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity, study shows: Boredom is more common at work than in any other setting, studies show, and employees are bored at work for more than 10 hours per week on average.
• How I setup my terminal for max productivity: Get back 1 hour per day with these tips and tricks
• 56 Cheeses, 56 Grilled Cheeses: Which One is Best? | Epicurious: Third-generation cheesemonger, Adam Moskowitz, joins Epicurious for the ultimate grilled cheese challenge. Using every type of cheese, Adam made 56 grilled cheeses to determine the best one. From gruyère to ricotta–which sandwich has the best cheese pull, and which should be left outside of the frying pan?
• Why Your Big Sister Resents You: “Eldest daughter syndrome” assumes that birth order shapes who we are and how we interact. Does it?
• De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness: It may be that simple