Reminders for myself

hello! did you know that using screens makes you breathe more shallowly? you might even hold your breath from time to time without realising it so I invite you now to take three normal breaths, whatever feels good maybe look around a bit, take in the space how did that feel?

being performative hurts everyone in the situation; you are (subtly) deceiving others who may think they are interfacing with the real you. and you injure your true self by shoving them down to signal something you think is valuable/necessary that you do not authentically possess

Around here I paused to explain this current piece to my wife, and she in turn paused to think about the navigation thing for a while before she agreed. I found myself referencing some events in our personal life and I was slightly surprised (in the ‘huh, oh... oh yeahhh’ sense ) where it led: the idea that you only get to the deepest heart of navi... See more

“Choose your art, practice your art, always, always choose your art over and above anything else. If you can’t do that, then you have—what, a few more years?”

Effectiveness—in politics, and in life—relies, I think, on our ability to meet reality. I wrote this to remind myself of the cost of self-deception, and to commit to the kind of rigorous, unyielding honesty that makes one’s life and work better.