✏️ New Word Learned:
Moribund: close to death, in a dying state, or completely inactive and lacking vitality
✍️ I’m completing an MBA from NYU Stern by end of the year, but some of the best lessons in risk-management I ever learned, I learned from the Notorious B.I.G. Read all 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.
🗞️ Kelly Clarkson is now publicly beefing with my neighborhood’s local curiosity shop.
✍️ New Blog Post Up Now // Practice What You Love, Not Just What You’re Good At
🗂️ 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”
😵💫 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
🎨 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.
🎨 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
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:
💬 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.”
🗿 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.
💬 U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II in Cohen v. California (1971):
“One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric."
🖍️ 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.
🃏 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.
✍️ I have decided to publish the results of every personality test I’ve ever taken. But why?
I wrote a little about that, too:
“When you first step into this universe of personality profiles, it can feel like it widens your perspective, giving you new insights into people, personalities, and the self. The first thing you do is go home and share it with your partner, your friends, or your family. Everybody takes the quiz and you all talk about each other’s quirks, fears, and strengths, laughing (or crying) at the results. In my estimation, this is where these tests shine— at the specious level, facilitating conversation and cultivating curiosity about the other. Yet, this rabbit hole is almond-shaped. The first few steps are widening, the next many are constricting. The further you go, the smaller the world gets, until all you see, speak, and do is the framework."
ℹ️ I am making some much needed improvements to my website and my micro.blog. Thank you for being patient with me as I shift, correct, and trial many things (new pfp included).
I didn’t realize the gaps I had left in regards to some of the topics I am most passionate about. Gonna remedy this ASAP!
🎥 Wrote a short review of the phenomenal film ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ featuring Mahershala Ali // bradley-andrews.com
The tl;dr is that the film is really good and you should probably watch it. Way better than the Blade movie we won’t be getting!
✏️ New Word Learned:
Bailiwick: a person’s or organization’s area of expertise, authority, or responsibility
✍️ Most people spend their lives trying to escape the block they grew up on; I’ve gotten mine tattooed on me. New post out now// bradley-andrews.com
The (909) used to be called the armpit of California. It is a place of widespread institutional bankruptcy, brown poverty, below average education rates, and the most crime-riddled city on the West Coast. Even the milder locations have a strange and surreal underbelly which was depicted by David Lynch of all people. Growing up, the IE had the worst air quality in the entire nation and at times I wonder if people can still smell the smog on me.
🃏 New Joke:
Question: “What did Mario say when he saw one hundred and forty-four koopas eating out of Bowser’s trash can?”
Answer: “That’s a gross!”
IYKYK