Brad Barrish

a note from a believer:

Sari, I remember that as a kid, I always knew I was different, and wanted to show it. I’d tie my Converse shoelaces in the shape of a star, I’d zig when others zagged, I’d take pride in being Mexican in my mostly White North Carolina small town, and this all showed through in my work. I was Me. And somewhere along the way,

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We can hope that America will be kinder, more graceful, more compassionate, more sincerely devoted to all people being created equal and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But the truth is that celebrating the death of other human beings because we hate them or what we think they stand for is absolutely American.

Survival isn’t just about what you focus on. It’s about what you deliberately refuse to focus on.

Restraint is a winning strategy.

Limiting our attention is not a weakness. It’s how we maintain mental fortitude.

Move on.

The odd & antique thing about tar­iffs is that they only apply to phys­ical goods, even as more & more of the economy has become intangible. For the U.S., this is very convenient. What do we export? Software, light as air.

honestly, i kind of feel like i'm just preparing for when the corpo-gov ai consumes all of the world's compute manufacturing and resources and regular people who want to use computers are left to scavenge the outdated and decommissioned scraps of hardware and software from the bygone age of the personal computing revolution. i suppose that's why... See more