Author: Andrew
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“A Psalm of Life”
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not…
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Something like: “Sober up, something is happening.”
There is tension in everything. This is the grounding the theory I have currently. If there is a way the world works, I would say it has something to do with tension. Tension in the sense that most of our experiences, consumables, and relationships are connected to each other thing and they’re in constant push…
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Rites of Spring
“This is a book about death and destruction. .. a book about ‘becoming.’” As I understand the book: Art is avant-garde. It breaks old things. Makes you wince. Fundamentally believes change is beautiful. It provokes you because it’s provoking the artist making it. Germany, in WWI, waged it to be do all of these things.…
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Where are the anti-elites when you need them?
Where’s everyone that sang this anthem two years ago when Joe Biden was the elite oppressor they cried out against? Has not Oliver’s fortune telling come true? But now it’s under the oppressor you chose? Where is the independence? The “don’t tread on me” no-matter-what-ness? Wake up! You were right about some things. But being…
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this is why we’re all busy now
Meditations for the Anxious Mind is one of the funnier and prophet-eering social commentaries out there. __ is, seems to me, certainly always stretching the narrative to the margins of what’s going on, but told from the young millenial/old gen z perspective you can’t exactly point at it and say, “That’s not the way it…
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The Decadent Society
Great book. I finished it maybe over a month ago and didn’t immediately write down my thoughts, so my read on its base case is: Technology progress has to compound, have noticeably hire benefits each wave, and you must keep pushing more and more, or you reach a point where you’re comfortable enough to stop…
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Life is a series of…
decisions about whether you’ll clean up those 7 drops of milk the kid just spilled. Likewise, will I spend the 10 seconds it takes to not leave pants on the ground. Or get a haircut on time. Life is a series of decisions of whether I’ll do the thing that needs to be done right…
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Clawed
https://twitter.com/deanwball/article/2028464782622195992 From Dean Ball I tend to agree with the direction where-we-are and where-we-are-headed that this piece is offering: “At some point during my lifetime—I am not sure when—the American republic as we know it began to die. Like most natural deaths, the causes are numerous and interwoven. No one incident, emergency, attack, president, political…
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Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?
Give to me to read by my friend, Ken Kelly. Bad to time to be a materialist! The new atheists ended up being a lot like the fundamentalist Evangelicals. Both have lost ground to the Religion of Politics. Page 276 It’s a mistake to assume (as many people seem to do) that if something doesn’t…
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The morning I have wasted
AI will add, they say, trillions of dollars in value to GDP. Yet, if all you are is a middle man between a CLI and a terminal, you have been conned my friend. Today, I am that middle man. I’ve spent the whole morning fiddling with this auto trading dashboard that I’ve been playing around…