evanovich

@evancm

Nerdy yet sturdy, a gay elder millennial at play,

respect how design and tech intersect, programs and projects I direct each day.

I chase personal grace, laced with insight in every space,

as nature’s hidden rapture captures my artful embrace.

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Noam Leon Kaestner substack.com

Art I Like

Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.

brianna wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Mental Models

This is all, unfortunately, a microcosm of the problems we face. We’re up against a system that views and treats hyper short-term profits as more important than our collective future. We’re up against corporations and ways of doing business that would ignite the planet before letting their profits fall – and that’s exactly what they’re doing. We,... See more

Joshua P. Hill • 200 (and 1)

The finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on encouraging corporations to pursue profit at the expense of societal welfare.

Wendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley

What gives multinational corporations the right to pollute the air we breathe, drain our groundwater and exhaust our planet’s dwindling resources – and deprives us of the right to stop them? One powerful idea: private property. Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to... See more

Sally Rooney • Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?

I am a lot more powerful than I thought I was. Will power, emotional depth, emotional capacity and range. I am serenity as the deepest and truest essence de of my being.

Mindfulness & Wisdom and Actualization via Iteration

Big picture: Nearly all Fortune 1000 corporations today operate as extractive monopolies, claiming ownership over common resources and global technologies, while collapsing living standards — all for for private wealth hoarding. This model is unsustainable for civilization. And it’s not a real economy. It’s a wealth-extraction machine. Full stop.

Boycott List — Survivors Guide to Earth

Politics and

full. stop.

“If a person is entangled in a conflict, their only salvation lies in being so clear–headed and inwardly strong that they are always ready to come to terms by meeting the opponent halfway. To carry on the conflict to the bitter end has evil effects even when one is in the right, because the enmity is then perpetuated.” What is more truthful than

Stop being nice and telling me what you think I want to hear (or what you are comfortable saying). Start being kind and tell me what I need to hear. I will respect you more and I will trust you more.

Ways of Working

Brene Brown