Notes from the Trail

Notes from the Trail

The Importance of Book Critiques

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Jeff Noble
Feb 20, 2026
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Back in the day, before we had names for complaining, pessimistic individuals like Karen1 or Margaret.2

We used to call such types Negative Nelly’s. I never really thought about where Nelly came from. …

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