Josh

In that earlier era, when we still drank from garden hoses, losing a job sucked, but it mostly didn’t take your community with it. In this new era, losing a job means getting gutted. Not only do you lose your paycheck, but you lose access to all the people and places where you used to have your non-work-but-actually-at-work fun.

"When one's concern for ideas, no matter how dedicated and sincere, reduces them to the service of some central limited preconception or some wholly external end, intellect gets swallowed by fanaticism. If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to... See more

Merry Christmas Eve.

While preparing for holiday festivities yesterday I listened to over 100 recordings of my favorite traditional Christmas carol: God Rest You Merry Gentlemen.

Here's a thread of the top 7. I award extra points for creativity, fullness of sound, and house party appropriateness.

I don't make resolutions, ever since I discovered the two perfect ones years ago:

1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself.

2. Do what you already do, but more so.