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🗂️ Open Tabs 10/9 to 10/16

Open Tabs is a trial series, where I publish my unclosed tabs from that week.

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💬 Mason Currey collected a grip of Anne Carson quotes and interviews after her achieving of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s a great read, very worth the time. Click here to read.

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🕊️ I have made a video game about a certain Brooklyn magic shop and a certain mechanical bird. In it, you play a magician fighting your way across NYC to rescue Molly from a rogue assistant. Click here to play.

Disclaimer 1: I was using Google’s AI Lab for educational purposes and this game was made using that program! Lots of bugs still, but very playable. Best on desktop! Disclaimer 2: You will need to sign into Google’s Game Center to play (it will prompt you). Disclaimer 3: Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is tooooootally coincidental…

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💬 A quote from Paul Valéry:

“In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned; and this abandonment, of the book to the fire or to the public, whether due to weariness or to a need to deliver it for publication, is a sort of accident, comparable to the letting-go of an idea that has become so tiring or annoying that one has lost all interest in it.”

This idea is often well-summarized yet misattributed to Da Vinci as such:

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

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✍️ Wrote a parable-slash-short story about books, reading, and identity. 3 friends, 1 bookstore, and a precocious cashier. Only a 6-minute read. Don’t skip! // bradley-andrews.com

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🐤 Well, well, well… the beef between Kelly Clarkson and my local novelty shop has gone completely viral. At this point, the only thing left to do is cut the mechanical bird in half and give one piece to each party, Old Testament style.

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💬 A slogan from May 68 and the Situationists to express that beneath the city is a living desire for freedom and play:

“Beneath the paving stones, the beach."

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✍️ I’m completing my MBA from NYU Stern, but some of the best lessons in risk-management I ever learned, I learned from the Notorious B.I.G. Read about it in my latest post // bradley-andrews.com

“In the drug game, police are the enemy, so he tells the listener not to associate with them; but Biggie’s concern here is reputation, not incrimination. All business— even the drug business— is built on trust. There is nothing more valuable to human relations than dependability. If any activity runs the risk of losing trust with friends, family, or customers, leave it alone.”

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🐥 Kelly Clarkson is now publicly beefing with my neighborhood’s local curiosity shop.

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✍️ New Blog Post Up Now // Practice What You Love, Not Just What You’re Good At

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🗂️ Open Tabs // 10.2-10.9

ATTN: Open Tabs is a new series I am trialing, where I publish unclosed tabs from my browser that week. My hope is it leads others down fruitful rabbit trails, helps me revisit unclosed loops, and serves as a crumb trail of ideas and “research”

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😵‍💫 Strange Snack of the Week: Rotten Spicy Sour Gummy Cruncheez

  • Rating: 7/10
  • Will Eat Again: Unlikely
  • Comment: Nerds Gummy Clusters, But If The Founders Were Half Latino
  • Recommend To Try: Yes
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🎨 In love with Bill Braun’s paintings. Yes, you read that correctly— paintings:

I don’t like to give an artist statement because it undoes the premise of my work, trompe l’oeil painting. Literally from the French, trompe l’oeil means “trick the eye”. An artist’s statement might undo the fundamental aim of convincing the viewer, at least for a moment, that what he sees are actual objects and not a painting.

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🎨 In love with Bill Braun’s paintings. Yes, you read that correctly— paintings:

“I don’t like to give an artist statement because it undoes the premise of my work, trompe l’oeil painting. Literally from the French, trompe l’oeil means “trick the eye”. An artist’s statement might undo the fundamental aim of convincing the viewer, at least for a moment, that what he sees are actual objects and not a painting.” — Bill Braun

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ℹ️ Hallelujah! I have officially migrated posts from my old Substacks to my blog. A lot of broken links and bad formatting, but I feel immensely relieved. It’s like finally moving furniture out of storage and into the home.

Here are some favs for old times sake:

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💬 Raoul Vaneigem’s opening line in The Revolution of Everyday Life:

“I LIVE ON THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE AND I DON’T NEED TO FEEL SECURE.”

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🗿 Was giving my family a tour of NYC last week and was privately embarrassed that I had forgotten the difference between a gargoyle and a grotesque. The eagle heads on the Chrysler Building are, in my estimation, some of the most exquisite examples of the latter.

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💬 U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II in Cohen v. California (1971):

“One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric."

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🖍️ New semester, new sketch notes. I’m rusty, but here’s snippets from my Corporate Turnaround and Change Mgmt. courses.

  • It is easier to pull an existing strength out of a system than to try and instill a new one.
  • Most people are still leading with a top-down model— and enjoying it!
  • Listening to people on the front lines of your business is the best place to start asking questions.
  • Running a healthy business means checking the metrics everyday— you cannot NOT check the numbers.
  • Even when in crisis, your problem is not your customer’s problem, so don’t make it their problem.

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🃏 New Joke Unlocked:

I asked my friend what she’s been reading lately.
"René Girard," she said.
“Why him?” I asked earnestly.
"Because I saw someone else reading him, of course."

🤣 Is this too niche? Let me know.