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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The Gift of Empathy: How generosity of spirit can transform your life

amazon.com

Topicality is wicked, deeply so. “Fresh” information is a tool of the selfish classes (and be sure there’s a diversity of type) to keep the individual anesthetized, to keep one suspended in a vat of phony immediacy and specious solidarity — the addiction to being informed.

Little in this world is relevantly fresh; and certainly there is nothing fres... See more

Mindfulness & Wisdom

“But there is a counter measure to this selfishly motivated, transcendental topicality: PATIENCE. Composure, restraint, and a commitment to one’s own long term well being, is like a lead shield to their hyperbolic information system; a thorough interrupter to their insistent momentum.”

Cargo brilliance

Joan Didion on fully embracing life:

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To ... See more

Actualization via Iteration

Preach

David Foster Wallace: "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred"

Mindfulness & Wisdom

You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.

Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more

D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Human Connections and Technology

Before jumping into a very competitive game I think you should look at the winners of that game and decide if you want to be like them first

Sherry

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Mindfulness & Wisdom

Actualization via Iteration

To become human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

—David Whyte

Actualization via Iteration

The #maga resentment toward #federalworkers is misguided. #Reagan #Trump #heritagefoundation

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Politics

“It’s cheaper to feed you misinformation than it is to feed you and your family.”

The most succinct summarization of how we got from when America was great to now.