Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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occupying the space of opposition
It has been 31 days since Donald Trump took office and began to keep his promises to systematically destroy the United States for the benefit of those who need no help amassing power and riches, and in that time there has not even been token resistance from the Democratic Party. Instead of wielding the same…
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Don’t hold bombs for those who call you “enemy”
I’ve squandered my time on this Earth in workplaces awash with acronyms and can say without pause that acronyms in the non-infrastructure civilian world provide negative value. When you don’t say the words they stop having meaning. This is fine when you are in the military and everyone is trained up and kept sharp because…
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a thought exercise
Imagine, if you will, that on the day you were born, you were handed a trust fund designed to run out the day you died — 100 years later. Every day of your life, you could spend some of that trust fund, and on the final day, you’d spend the final penny.1 How much would…
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minutes watched
Streaming sites evidently measure how much you like something by a metric called “minutes viewed” which really ought to be “cumulative minutes viewed” (if this was advanced stats for sports, it would be called CMV) because it is a measure of all the minutes that any client watched the show. Which is… weird, like, as…
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everything is a side-hustle
In the back half of the 1990s when the dot com bubble was inflating, there was a sense among the watchers that the energy and limitlessness of the times represented a “New Economy” and a “New Way of Working”. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn’t. By 2008 that optimism was gone, and the prevailing ethos…
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the hubris of idiots
Fun fact: both idiot and hubris are from Ancient Greek and they still mean today pretty much what they meant in 500 BC. Idiot had some benign meanings that it has lost, but the idea of someone who is ignorant, uneducated, or not in the know is very much there. Hubris still has the original…
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