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🎉 Today would’ve been the 100th birthday of the one and only— Ivan Illich. Truly, Illich possessed an intellect, a spirit, and an integrity that the world has rarely seen. I am from a very different generation, but owe him a great debt and am grateful for the life he lived.

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“Man must choose whether he wants to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.”

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☕️ I was sitting in a coffee shop today when two teenagers swung open the door and dragged themselves to the counter. Peeping the menu through their broccoli hair and dark bangs, they asked the barista, “Do you have a pumpkin spice latte?”

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It has begun. 🙏

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✏️ New Word Learned:

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Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow

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Thank you to @miljko for putting it on the radar. And a reminder to everybody that you can find all vocab words in my Words and Writing category or filter for them by typing “✏️” into my search page.

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@miljko brilliant. How did i not know this was a word. Adding this to my “recently learned” list.

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✍️ New blog post up now // Everyone I Know, I Chose:

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I was born and raised in Church. I was nurtured in a congregational setting and sustained by the friendships formed there. No matter your personal sentiments about faith, religion, or God, I hope you are willing to concede, at minimum, this simple understanding about what makes a church unique: A church is unique precisely because I cannot control who gets to be a part of it.

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An imperfect post, but I hope it gets my point across. ❤️

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💬 In love with this poem that I have only just come across for the first time. From the late Wendell Berry:

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A Warning to my Readers
\nDo not think me gentle
\nbecause I speak in praise
\nof gentleness, or elegant
\nbecause I honor the grace
\nthat keeps this world. I am
\na man crude as any,
\ngross of speech, intolerant,
\nstubborn, angry, full
\nof fists and furies. That I
\nmay have spoken well
\nat times, is not natural.
\nA wonder is what it is.

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Reading this, I feel so seen. Rest In Peace, Wendell.

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🗽 August ‘26, no context photos.

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✍️ Wrote a lil' something outlining the metaphor I use for creativity and indecision. There’s a knock-knock joke at the end I am quite proud of, too. Read the full thing here // bradley-andrews.com

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Nothing I do can be classified as high-brow. I’ve been a generalist for so long that none of my skills are very deep. I have lived a lot of life and I have a lot experiences — but experiences don’t necessarily translate to craft. Craft, it seems, is what produces the excellence that really floors people. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche called it “long obedience in the same direction.”

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🚑 A great research paper from NBER was just released, suggesting that New York City’s congestion pricing program has cut total emergency medical service travel times by over a minute on average. As contentious as the decision has been, the policy seems to be having positive results.

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🕊️ Rest In Peace, Wendell Berry.

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The Peace of Wild Things:

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When despair for the world grows in me
\nand I wake in the night at the least sound
\nin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
\nI go and lie down where the wood drake
\nrests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
\nI come into the peace of wild things
\nwho do not tax their lives with forethought
\nof grief. I come into the presence of still water.
\nAnd I feel above me the day-blind stars
\nwaiting with their light. For a time
\nI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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✍️ Urgent: Wordplay Machine Out of Cervix

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A new memo from our CEO. l love my internship at Never Bored Inc., but boy do things get strange. 😅 Embrace the strange!

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✍️ Humility In Drag (The Birdcage Interview) // bradley-andrews.com

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Robin found a way to make those traits a gift for others. He dealt attention generously; but he also knew when it was his time to step in and rearrange it. Not everyone is like him, with the capacity to absorb—or perhaps endure—the gaze of others. Attention is a powerful thing and people like Robin have an innate understanding of the deleterious effect that it can have on people who aren’t desirous of it. It can hurt. It can harm. It can make you self-conscious and afraid, killing that wonderful spirit of play and creation.

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@canneddragons Love this. Thanks for sharing. Eminem shared the message he got from Dolly after his Hall of Fame admission, and it delighted me so so much.

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✍️ I just finished a new (vulnerable) piece on presence, anxiety, and how Artificial Intelligence simulates calm but can’t give presence.

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📚 I have my next five books lined up for reading. All non-fiction, yet so so excited. 😍

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💬 The IndieWeb is Punk Manifesto I now swear by:

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THE INDIEWEB IS PUNK MANIFESTO

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Three chords and a domain name.

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You don’t need a deal with a label. You don’t need a platform’s blessing. All you need is an out of tune guitar you can barely play, or a free text editor and a web host. That’s it. That’s the whole scene.

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I. WE ARE THE DIY KIDS

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Punk didn’t wait for labels to say yes. It plugged in a blown out amp in someone’s basement and played anyway. Bad singer? Makes no difference. Three chords? You go. Own a drum kit but never had a lesson? You’re the drummer now.

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The IndieWeb works the same...

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✏️ New Term Learned:

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Non-sequacious: not following with smooth or logical regularity.

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I cannot grasp the difference between this and non sequitur, if I am honest. The internet tells me there is one, but all the AI definitions and guesses are, well, non-sequacious. 🤷‍♂️

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🎵 Five beautiful (non-hiphop) song recs for everyone that I think are absolute gems (don’t sleep on these!):

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✏ New word learned:

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Jejune: naive, simplistic, and superficial: (of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting

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Finished reading: Educated by Tara Westover 📚

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Good book. It won’t make my favorites list, but I wouldn’t discourage anyone from reading it. While Westover attempts to make education and the life of the mind the primary theme of the book, the neglect and abuse which she receives from her Mormon extremist...

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📰 I read this New Yorker article on Death Doulas and have thought about it everyday. It’s a long read, yet worthwhile. In a diff world, I could see me doing this.

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Two q’s:

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  1. I wonder what Ivan Illich would say?
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  2. I wonder if Orson Scott Card’s idea of “Speaker for the Dead” will one day emerge?
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@annahavron and @isaacgreene Thank you two. Sounds like WAD and music is place to start 🙂 Strangely enough, I am familiar with Oblique Strategies because of Marshall Mcluhan’s DEW cards, which preceded OS and served a different function, but I think shared something similar in artistic spirit.

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💬 Neil Postman in Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change:

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The consequences of technological change are always vast, often unpredictable and largely irreversible. That is also why we must be suspicious of capitalists. Capitalists are by definition not only personal risk takers but, more to the point, cultural risk takers. The most creative and daring of them hope to exploit new technologies to the fullest, and do not much care what traditions are overthrown in the process or whether or not a culture is prepared to function without such traditions. Capitalists are, in a word, radicals....

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@isaacgreene Funny you should say that – i almost commented yesterday to ask you where one should start with Brian Eno. I have run into his work so much over the years, but been too intimidated by how long he has been around to do a broader, more intentional survey. The time may be coming though…

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💬 RE: My last post. This is the quote, among many others, that immediately confirmed I needed to purchase the book:

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It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living. Contrasted with this is a relationship to external reality which is one of compliance, the world and its details being recognized by only as something to be fitted in with or demanding adaptation. Compliance carries with it a sense of futility for the individual and is associated with the idea that nothing matters and that life is not worth living. In a tantalizing way many...

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📚 I normally order all my books through Books Are Magic or Bookshop.org , but I made an exception and went through Amazon this week for, uh, obvious reasons…

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✍️ A new company-wide memo from the Never Bored CEO was just published. As lead intern (okay, the only intern) I apologize for my part in the scandal, but glad it turned out for the best!

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Read the memo by clicking here.

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🎵 Song’s I’ve been listening to:

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Found the last song through this essay, which reminded me a little of my Jay-Z post.

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@aemiliana If you told me that this is a bad faith translation and that your way was the REAL way… Id believe you. 🤣

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✏️ New Words Learned:

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Fantods: a state of extreme nervousness, restlessness, fidgets, or uneasiness—similar to “the willies” or “the heebie-jeebies”

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Anfractuous: full of windings and intricate turnings : tortuous

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Icosahedral: having the shape of an icosahedron, which is a three-dimensional geometric solid with 20 faces

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@joshuapsteele
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Maybe not my fav, but the first that come to mind.

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@beejaymay WAIT, i just realized its a painting. Im exponentially more stunned 😍😍

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@beejaymay GORGEOUS shot. Thanks for sharing.

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@dwalbert That makes so much sense. The website frames it as “spending Currency enables you to save your U$D,” but that does feel like it has a logical endpoint for how far it can be stretched. Im intrigued…

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@canneddragons 100%. I feel the same. The fact that they have hundreds of business who accept the currency is also what makes it so viable. In theory, you can get everything you need from your local stores, plus non-essentials.

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@isaacgreene Wow, thanks for sharing. I’m gonna need to read up about this. I know that planned economies, etc… are not without their issues and failures. But it’s a bold and commendable vision to try and recreate economic relations in such a dramatic way. Very cool.

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@JohnBrady I don’t see why not! It would be a worthwhile rabbit hole to see how this even got started. Someone has to be the first to suggest it…

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@ReaderJohn Steal away!!!!

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@isaacgreene Oof, tough luck. That’s like 19 base points without any multipliers. Must’ve been some opponent though if they beat you!

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@jinscho ❤️ Just lovely. Wishing you and yours the best today.

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@ablerism Ahhh thank you!! Ive temporarily taken the post down, since a thoughtful stranger suggested the full thing was more condemning than I intended it to be. I am reevaluating and will hopefully repost it with edits or rewrite entirely!

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@elliotlovegrove haha, thank you! Not sure if he does happenstance ones anymore, but Ill be ready if thats the case. If you stay ready, you aint gotta get ready, amiright?

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@manton Oh boy, gonna be fun to read the comments on this one. 🤣 Far be it from me to give directions to places I have never been.
\nThank you for the transparency and clarity on your thinking, as always. Looking forward to seeing how you feel about it in a few months. Long live micro.blog!

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@canneddragons It really is. I dont have any of the other usual streaming platforms , so its amazing how consistently it pushes out good movies for free!

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@canneddragons ah, i love Wes Anderson so big compliment!! Thank you!

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@dwalbert hahaha, ahhhh, my bad 🤦‍♂️ although now i owe a double “thanks” because your comment actually makes my whole day. Thank you!!

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@dwalbert Yes! mandy is amazing!

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@isaacgreene Yes, completely agree. And, similar to irl exercise, those activities always leave me thinking “I love the feeling of this—why dont i do this more often?” 🤣

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@V_ hahaha, yeeerp. I felt so seen by this.

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@isaacgreene haha! You’re humble. I read this not too long ago and I think we feel similarly. I tell people it’s very Ted Lasso coded, in the sense that you have to be really onboard with incorrigibly optimistic characters and fatalistically redemptive storylines. A lot to love and cosign though.

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