== “I ve learned that you simply can t control those bad vibes.” Kenny G == “Just as thoughts are not facts, feelings are not facts either. Emotions are information, but when that information is powerful, intense and loud, as emotions can be, then we are more vulnerable to believing in them as a true reflection of what is going on. I feel it therefore it must be a fact. Emotional reasoning is a…
=== “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.” unitarian minister and slavery abolitionist Theodore Parker == “However, even if we accept that citizens are not…
== kayfabe Kayfabe is a term used in professional wrestling to describe the act of portraying staged events as genuine “When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that are true and “facts” that are not.” Katharine Viner Alternative facts aren t facts, they are falsehoods. == 2025. My “prediction” is it will be…
== “The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.” Peter Drucker What is “making it” in 2024? What I mean by that is in today’s flattened society making it isn’t some title or increased responsibility or even some version of social mobility, its more simply a zero-sum wealth concept. In other words, “I have more than they…
== “Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating ― none of those are the transcendent facets of the human personality. They’re diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. They are the infectious and contagious viruses that have been bleeding humanity for years. And because they have been and because they are, is it necessary that they shall be? I…
== America, fundamentally, is an incredibly rich country with a sick society.” Noah Smith == “The primary use of ‘misinformation’ is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” Charlie Warzel == Let me begin by saying well I feel…
== I have no space, no room to move around And this box is getting smaller, I m trying to get out How did I get so far from where I was? When did I decide to lose my way? Who have I become? I ve got a new low All 52 cards in a row I ve been right, I ve been left I ve been wrong, I ve been left behind I ve been up but mostly down I cannot help feeling like I have so much at stake So I lock myself…
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. == Trump posted a word cloud based on his speeches: the biggest word was “revenge.” Many of his threats reflect Trump’s now familiar tactic of reversing charges against his opponents, conjuring a mirror world in which he claims they are guilty of the very offence of which he is accused. I am tired of talking about the presidential…
== “Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” Aristotle ==== “Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.” John F. Kennedy === Today USA chooses a new president. I sat down this morning not really sure what to write. So, what I did is go back to see what I…
===== “The life so short, the craft so long to learn.” Hippocrates == I once wrote this: “And, let’s face it, I don’t care who you are and where you have worked you have eyed what another person is doing and thought you could do it. At some point, if you have had some success, all jobs start having some commodity-like characteristics which tease you into believing shifting from one to another just…
== “You marvel; remembering that of course your world is your world. Your subjective ontology (aka that which is objectively true for you). This is the orientation amidst the salience landscape of the inter-subjective meaning-ness we share. Some things shine bright to you in this world, some things feel apt, and some things resonate with a deep relational hum.” Dr Jason Fox == Aren’t you afraid?…
== “that’s the same thing as having an affair” == The closing arguments in the presidential campaign is a contrast in a number of things, but mostly it has become a contrast between respectful and disrespectful. One campaign has unequivocally stated that no matter who you vote for you will be listened to and represented and the other has, well, referred to ‘other voters’ as the enemy within. The…
== “Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because, again, they just wanted to be left the hell alone,” JD Vance == This election cycle is nearing its end (thank god). But the closing arguments for each campaign have been, well, enlightening. Let’s just say the normal candidate has stayed the course, consistently offering polices, vision and ideas – and…
== “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” Plato == “Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.” Stephen Gardiner == This began as conversations with a number of people about technology and technology companies. But what I quickly found myself doing in conversation after conversation is…
== “I’m the opposite of a Nazi!” Donald Trump, reassuring us that he is definitely, totally, absolutely not a Nazi. == Fascism: a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe…
== “His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner…
==== “In a desperately awkward situation we reach for the nearest platitude. “ Michael Lipsey === “Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.” H. L. Mencken === “It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals, we must first improve our knowledge.” Havelock Ellis === I imagine we have…
== “People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.” Søren Kierkegaard == Denial is a river in Egypt. Denial is also Trump’s superpower. He denies reality. Shamelessly denies what everyone can see. And in doing so he, well, lies all the time. About everything. It’s his ju jitsu act. And while I am going to talk economics, let me first point out that in this…
== “Oh, you need me.” == On the horrible Bill Maher show he recently had on a horrible guest who espoused the idea of democrats demonizing men and the “male crisis.” First. I find it rich that some right wing nutjob is harping on the fragility of men. Whatever happened to self-reliance and “pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps?” Second. A pernicious aspect of this whole male crisis narrative is…
== “We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed.” Joseph Chilton Pearce == I have written about limitations as well as rules and breaking a rule before, but today this is just about potential and game theory (in a weird way). Game theory revolves…