Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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Discretionary power without accountability
Convicted felon Donald. J. Trump was in a New York City courtroom today where he was sentenced to bear no burden and suffer no penalty for cooking the books during his 2016 presidential campaign to hide from regulators and voters how he paid off a porn star to hide from voters that he’d had an…
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Tariffs only work if …
Tariffs only work if they raise prices of imported goods above the cost of domestic goods because the purpose of a tariff is to create space in the competitive landscape for domestic producers to grow and prosper by raising the cost of the imported good so that domestic goods can undercut them on price in…
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Some bad intentions…
Bad Intentions The green bus passes through melike vibrating waves varying shades of ink Color It’s a pleasant enough sensationBut since I am paralyzed If the green bus continuesTo pass through me I will be left here foreverAs if betrayedBy some bad intentions of space and time Jim Carroll
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Modern life is out of control
Modern life is out of control. This is well known, in fact, it is so well known that we have entire industries dedicated to the attempts to put it back “under control”. Yet we organize and structure and tidy and balance to no avail, because modern life is out of control. Too little and too…
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My American Trauma
This is about what happens when you are wrong about who you are, how you see yourself, and what you think that means when conceptualizing yourself, the world, and your place in that world.
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The Source of Truth
When we use truth and fact synonymously we lose the very precision that folks who care about things enough to want a “source of truth” are seeking in the first place.
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I hung up on my mother
I hung up on my mother today because she was trying to make an argument justifying why ~20 million Joe Biden voters didn’t show up for Kamala Harris because she wasn’t competent. There are many, many reasons why this happened, and none of them have to do with the competency of Kamala Harris compared to…
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humanity is not important
Atoms in the human body: 7 x 1027Atoms in the human race: 5 x 1037 Atoms in the universe: 6 x 1079 Atoms in the human body / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-52Atoms in the human race / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-42 Zero percent of the atoms in the universe…
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Rank, Role, Pay
Rank is where you sit in a hierarchy. You get positional authority from it. Role is what your responsibilities and operational authority are. Pay is how you are compensated. Some places try to keep these three tightly coupled — “Only people of this Rank can hold this Role, and Pay is bound to Rank.” Only…
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PLEASE REMEMBER YOU’RE SHOPPING BAGS
“This! This right here!” He pointed at a hand-written sign that said, “PLEASE REMEMBER YOU’RE SHOPPING BAGS” while invading my personal space. “If you fix this, all the probabilities align and the world doesn’t suck!” The mania was obvious, but something was off. Too clean for a tweeker or homeless. I just need milk. “Ignore…