Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
“They’re at the vanguard of a movement that’s leveraging the disruptions of the pandemic to question so many more of the arbitrary assumptions that have come to define the modern workplace.”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
But this strategy of defense brings to mind the slogan Keep Austin Weird , which has since been repurposed for Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and other formerly groovy towns. These calls are sad because they fail the second they are uttered. When you are forced to demand the preservation of the weird, the shark hath jumped.
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
... See more“If you’re talking about universal health care, that’s totally utopian, but immortality is totally feasible. It’s a really weird double standard that tech bros and billionaires and Saudi princes get to dream up cities in the desert or like this new plan for a utopian city in Solano County in Northern California, but the rest of us are just going to
working towards the common good
Everyday Utopia by Kristen Ghodsee
knew the fastest way to count quarters by hand, roll them, and exchange them for bills with vendors in the public market where I performed.
I knew how to juggle 5 balls.
I knew how to move quietly backstage during a theater performance.
I had traveled by bicycle across Australia entertaining in town squares, got chased out of the country by local
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