Remind me Often

if we could just put a big fucking neon sign up that says: "I'm not interacting right now so don't infer anything from my existence" - how fucking cool would that be?

Optimism through a lifetime of misery isn’t luck or delusion. It's discipline disguised as temperament, paid for in a thousand grueling moments when they strangled their own knee-jerk pessimism.

As AI commodifies "high-skill" work, your value depends on what algorithms cannot mimic: relationships, trust, nuance, a touch of the ineffable. We're witnessing a reconfiguration of expertise, where technical acumen intersects with distinctly human qualities that defy easy replication.

In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more

The Germans have a single word for a face that’s badly in need of a fist - “Backpfeifengesicht ”.