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“Always act to increase the number of choices.”

Plus a farewell to a food safety reporter who created a legendary plum cake

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Leonie Mercedes
October 04, 2025

Good morning ☀️ Here’s your three-part nudge for the day:

a prompt

Write on the following for 5–10 minutes:

What questions are you dying to answer right now? Big or small, list them all out, and think about how you can get the answers.

a thought

“Always act to increase the number of choices.” – Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher (via Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants, 2010)

farewell

Marian Burros, food reporter and creator of a legendary plum torte (1933–2025)

“‘I saw so many things over a period of time that made me think that all was not right in the world of food… There was a lot of fraud, a lot of cover-ups, and I wanted people to have all the facts so that they could make informed decisions.”

Have an excellent Saturday, whatever you’re doing, and I’ll see you tomorrow ☕