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Dec 6, 2025: 💬 Ten pages into Christmas Memory by Truman Capote and absolutely captured by this man’s prose: Dollar bills, tightly rolled and green as May buds. …
Dec 6, 2025: 💬 Christmas is such a generous season, which always makes me think of one of my favorite passages in Paradise Lost: Well we may afford Our givers …
Dec 5, 2025: Watched: Eternity 🎥 See my low-stakes and spoiler-free review here // bradley-andrews.com
Dec 5, 2025: 📊 Matt Stoller published a very insightful warning on potential anti-trust issues with the WBD acquisition by Netflix. However, I am not entirely …
Dec 5, 2025: 🫶 When the Chipotle worker gives biiiiig scoops
Dec 5, 2025: 🚊 If you live in NYC, then you should live in constant readiness—or fear—of Kareem Rahma from Subway Takes appearing and asking you for your own …
Dec 4, 2025: 🫶 When you’ve officially become a regular somewhere because the workers know your order
Dec 4, 2025: 🌲🏢 Yesterday, I learned that REI closes on Black Friday and pays their 14,000+ employees to spend time outdoors and in nature instead. It’s called …
Dec 3, 2025: 📚 Recently procured seasonal reading
Dec 2, 2025: ✍️ Click here to read some of my thoughts on the new NBER paper regarding collusion and common leadership in Silicon Valley: As an MBA student, the …
Dec 2, 2025: 💬 From Dorothy Day: What we would like to do is change the world—make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God …
Dec 2, 2025: 📵 A new paper in NBER found that two years after the imposition of a student cell phone ban, student test scores in a large urban school district were …
Dec 1, 2025: 🦅 It’s that time of year! California’s favorite bald eagles are prepping for egg-laying season & you can livestream their nest 24/7 at …
Nov 29, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Salvo: a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute : the release all at one time of a rack of …
Nov 29, 2025: 💿 The CD collection expands! Great finds from Fireplace Records in Hyattsville, MD.
Nov 26, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Niveous: snowy or resembling snow
Nov 25, 2025: 📉 A favorite professor of mine is raising the alarm regarding “Buy Now, Pay Later” providers, who are in for serious disappointment if/when the …
Nov 25, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: Baby album by Dijon (as mentioned on my review) The Road by Andrew Aged Fall For Your Type by Drake Don’t Stand So Close …
Nov 25, 2025: 📚 Book Review: New Teeth by Simon Rich // bradley-andrews.com
Nov 25, 2025: ✍️ Seven Minute Drill #2: bradley-andrews.com
Nov 24, 2025: 💬 An observation from Ivan Illich in Right To Useful Unemployment (1978) which feels especially pertinent in the age of LLMs: Fifty years ago, most …
Nov 24, 2025: 🎵 My Thoughts On Dijon’s Album “Baby”: bradley-andrews.com (Hint: I love it)
Nov 24, 2025: 📚 Book Review: PLAYFUL by Cas Holman // bradley-andrews.com I am an unwavering advocate of Cas Holman and her life project. Was grateful to get and …
Nov 24, 2025: 🎵 This new De La Soul track featuring Nas is fire. There is no doubt that the West is UP right now in hip-hop and I love to see Nas himself pass the …
Nov 24, 2025: 📚 Book Review: Without Feathers by Woody Allen // bradley-andrews.com
Nov 21, 2025: 📸 From a little event last weekend
Nov 21, 2025: 💬 My coworker dropping some accidental wisdom this AM: “Remember, as strange as it sounds, a dull knife is the most dangerous kind of knife.”
Nov 21, 2025: 🍕 I had Alvo’s vodka pizza with sesame seed crust three times this week. No regrets—but also, please send help.
Nov 19, 2025: ✏️ New Term Learned: Lake Wobegon Effect: the human tendency to overestimate one’s capabilities and achievements in relation to others. I’ve …
Nov 19, 2025: ✍️ A Brief Note On Spotify Economics and The Cessation of the Penny: bradley-andrews.com
Nov 19, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: Divinize by Rosalía Marvin Ye by Stove God Cooks Sextape by Deftones This 15 Second Bit of Jaydon singing ‘Yo’ by …
Nov 18, 2025: 🫶 The Oxford Comma
Nov 18, 2025: 💬 Maintenance: Of Everything: MAINTENANCE is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. Every living thing spends a great deal of time …
Nov 17, 2025: 🖍️ More miscellaneous sketch notes from biz school
Nov 17, 2025: 🐶 Oh, the way I live for trivia like this. AKC released the top dog names of 2025. Boy Names: Max Hank Teddy Cooper Gus Bear Duke Maverick Charlie …
Nov 16, 2025: 💬 Prodigal Son by James Weldon Johnson (1927)
Nov 15, 2025: 👀 The view from TikTok HQ
Nov 13, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Therianthropic: combining human and animal form; esp. relating to religions in which the deities worshiped are partly human and …
Nov 12, 2025: 📚 Let’s goooooooo
Nov 12, 2025: 💬 Found in Cas Holman’s Playful, which I am enjoying immensely: “You will find the future wherever people are having the most fun.” — Steven Johnson …
Nov 12, 2025: ✏️ New Term Learned: Caveat Emptor: a Latin phrase meaning “let the buyer beware”; the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for …
Nov 12, 2025: 💬 Marshall Mcluhan on his pioneering work in media ecology: “It is now perfectly plain to me that all media are environments, all media have the …
Nov 11, 2025: 🫶 NYC stores that provide free and clean public restrooms
Nov 11, 2025: Dear Ritz, I’m sorry for buying these Lemon sandwiches with the expectation that they’d be trash. They are, in fact, really really good.
Nov 11, 2025: 📰 FT on Yann LeCun’s impending exit from Meta. Now there will be even less adults in the room: Zuckerberg has pivoted away from the longer-term …
Nov 11, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: Robbie by Dan Deacon from the Task Original Soundtrack Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel SWOOP by …
Nov 9, 2025: 🎵 Here are some predictions and wish lists of Grammy winners for 2026 based on the nominations. Having Clipse and Kendrick on so many of the same …
Nov 9, 2025: 💬 A classic zinger from the incomparable Peter Drucker: “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with …
Nov 7, 2025: 🖍️ My sketch notes from this week’s “Managing the Growing Company” course. I find that interacting with the material while listening live is the best …
Nov 5, 2025: While Mamdani is being showered today with celebrations of his hard-earned victory, I hope Lindsey Boylan is somewhere also being applauded. There can …
Nov 5, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Polysemous: the capacity for a sign, symbol, word, or phrase to have multiple related meanings
Nov 4, 2025: 💬 Thinking a lot on Phillip Larkin’s poem Aubade lately and taking comfort from it. May write on it soon. Here is one glorious snippet: And so it …
Nov 4, 2025: I love to read, but I also believe that thirty minutes of conversation with real people is worth two hours of reading any literature. I know it’s a …
Nov 3, 2025: 💬 From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
Nov 3, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: Keep You by Pete Bailey Don’t Look Any Further by Dennis Edwards Folded (Remix) ft. Neyo by Kehlani I confess, I …
Nov 1, 2025: 📚 I am officially hooked on humor writing. I cannot believe that I have never explored the genre before, but diving into it now feels as significant …
Oct 31, 2025: ✏️ New Term Learned: Kufungisisa: a Shona idiom from Zimbabwe that translates to “thinking too much.” It is a cultural term used to …
Oct 31, 2025: It’s payday, which means that I will be suffering all day long as I resist the urge to spend an unreasonable amount of money on new books.
Oct 30, 2025: 📚 It’s Halloween y’all. Here are some good short stories appropriate for the holiday that you can read right now: The Lottery (1941) by Shirley …
Oct 30, 2025: Very fascinated right now by the genre of writing called Kmart Realism. The fact that sprinkling real-world products into your story and name dropping …
Oct 29, 2025: ❤️ Texts like these:
Oct 29, 2025: 💬 From Orwell, in As I Please: But the claim that ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ is one of the stock arguments of intelligent …
Oct 29, 2025: 🗞️ I just posted my first ever short story: A Grimm Night on Central Park South. In honor of Halloween, I center it around the spookiest thing …
Oct 27, 2025: Can’t believe I’ve never read Isaac Asimov’s self-proclaimed best story before tonight. My older brother put me on and it’s too good not to share. A …
Oct 27, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Hoi Polloi: the general populace ; MASSES
Oct 27, 2025: 📷 Light At The End Of The Tunnel — 35mm Portra 400 by me
Oct 27, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: Lullaby by Jaydon & Paradise Fast Life by LaKeith Stanfield ft. Kid Cudi Lone Wolf by Leon Thomas Yellow (Live Cover) by …
Oct 27, 2025: Something strangely alluring about these HiChord Pocket Synth videos. Retro, nostalgic, stylish – while not technically ads, this may be some of …
Oct 26, 2025: 🎥 Enjoyed my watch of Blue Moon with Ethan Hawke
Oct 24, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Zugzwang: a chess situation where a player must move, and any legal move worsens their position, giving them a disadvantage
Oct 24, 2025: 💬 A reminder from Friedrich Hölderlin: But where the danger is, also grows the saving power
Oct 24, 2025: 🗓️ Commemorating the day that Frodo woke up in Rivendell: Frodo woke and found himself lying in bed ‘Where am I, and what is the time?’ he said aloud …
Oct 23, 2025: 📷 Didn’t post bc I didn’t think they were that good — but just hit over 1,000 downloads on Unsplash in three days, so has me rethinking. Taken on …
Oct 23, 2025: Was recently put on to Simon Rich’s work (ex-SNL and ex-Pixar). Haven’t had this much fun reading a modern writer in a long time. If …
Oct 22, 2025: ✍️ Streamers Are Clowns: bradley-andrews.com
Oct 22, 2025: Mark Ruffalo does not get discussed enough in the “greatest actors” conversation.
Oct 20, 2025: 📷 photo of the artist taken on 35mm Kodak 400
Oct 20, 2025: 📷 Taken on 35mm Kodak 400
Oct 20, 2025: 📷 No Kings Protest in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Shot on 35mm Kodak 400.
Oct 15, 2025: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s piece in Harper’s on tech & enchantment is so, so good. It’s long, but more than worth the read: We are …
Oct 15, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Clepsydra: an ancient time-measuring device worked by a flow of water.
Oct 14, 2025: ☕️ I love bone broth in cold weather.
Oct 14, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: Useless (Without You) by Elmeni and Muni Long Thats My Q by King Sis Still Get Chanel by Kodak Black ft. Chance the Rapper LOVE …
Oct 13, 2025: 🎤 From the judge’s decision to dismiss Drake’s lawsuit against UMG and Kendrick Lamar. The first time that the winner of a hip hop feud is declared …
Oct 13, 2025: 🗞️ 5 Easy Rules to Understand Technology. My latest newsletter is out now. I draw heavily from Melvin Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology, which I …
Oct 12, 2025: 📚 I wrote a brief reflection on the book that was given to me by a stranger in a coffee shop. You can read that reflection by clicking here: The …
Oct 12, 2025: 💬 From Anais Nin: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Oct 10, 2025: 🎵 If it weren’t for No Malice poppin’ off on the Clipse album, I would say that Chance the Rapper deserves the rapper of the year award. In case …
Oct 7, 2025: ❤️ Straws that don’t break, even when you stab them into the counter to open.
Oct 4, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Ensorcell: to enchant; fascinate
Oct 4, 2025: 🎬 Going to write about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another soon, but in case you’re wondering; it really is as good as everyone is saying. …
Oct 3, 2025: 🎞️ Excited to see that Eastman Kodak is back to selling its own film directly to distributors. Film photography is one of my favorite hobbies and …
Oct 1, 2025: ✍️ Third spaces are alive and well. A kind stranger in a coffee shop gave me this book to read last weekend. Read the full story here: …
Oct 1, 2025: 🗞️ My new post “Long Live Everything” is out now: It’s not the quality of a creative act that people necessarily respond to—it is the …
Sep 30, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Limerence: the mental state of being madly in love or intensely infatuated, particularly when reciprocation of the feeling is …
Sep 30, 2025: 🍦Intriguing business profile about entrepreneurship, neuroscience, memory, and ice cream.
Sep 30, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: The Hudson by The Favors Bambu by Penyair Killin You Hoes by Cardi B Sabotage by Domenic Haynes Excited to see where The Favors …
Sep 29, 2025: 📸 The view from this last weekend 🗽🌃
Sep 29, 2025: No, really, the biggest lie Disney ever sold was making the cockroach in Wall•E an adorable creature. Romantic fiction at its finest. 🪳❤️
Sep 29, 2025: If God don’t like ugly, then why did he make the cockroach? 🪳
Sep 28, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Badinage: humorous or witty conversation
Sep 27, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Parturition: the action of giving birth to young; childbirth
Sep 27, 2025: 💬 From Down and Out in Paris and London: I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob are …
Sep 27, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Etiolated: having lost vigor or substance; feeble
Sep 26, 2025: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Sep 25, 2025: 📓 Sketch note page for my “Managing A Growing Company” course — probably incoherent out of context, but helps me capture what’s not on the slides and …
Sep 24, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Pettifogging: placing undue emphasis on petty details
Sep 24, 2025: 🗞️ From Dispatch #002 of Mercury’s Playbook: Indeed—of all the marketplaces and industries in the world, luxury is perhaps the most intriguing …
Sep 24, 2025: ✍️Starting the movement to remove the word “interesting” from conversation.
Sep 22, 2025: Wishing a big and hearty ‘Happy Birthday’ to Frodo and Bilbo Baggins today! 🎉🥳👏🎊🎇🐲🧙♂️
Sep 19, 2025: 📓 A glimpse into my sketch notes for my Tech Product Management course, week 1. People generally seem to be intrigued when they see them in class, …
Sep 18, 2025: 💬 Brooklyn-based band Geese talking about their creative process. I relate heavily: “Well, it kind of starts with someone else’s pre-existing song …
Sep 18, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: The Best of Benny Goodman by Benny Goodman David Lyons by Dominic Fike Tiny Desk Concert by Ne-yo Chicago by Michael Jackson …
Sep 16, 2025: 📚 New book order finally arrived
Sep 15, 2025: 💬 Prof Glenn Okun in my class tonight: ”All genius is just someone else’s undisclosed process.”
Sep 15, 2025: 🗞️ The very first dispatch of my business strategy newsletter is out now: mercurysplaybook.com
Sep 13, 2025: 💬
Sep 13, 2025: Just finished the first draft of the first newsletter for Mercury’s Playbook, which goes out on Monday. I am so thrilled to finally get it …
Sep 12, 2025: 💬 From Mandy Brown’s latest: I think here of how difficult it can be to make a decision, the agony in wanting to make the right choice, knowing …
Sep 10, 2025: ✍️ I wrote some brief thoughts about the concept of ‘F**k You’ money & why I’m not surprised our billionaires persist in their …
Sep 10, 2025: Absolutely diabolical work from Google’s AI overview when I was trying to find out if a certain Lebanese-American artist still made …
Sep 9, 2025: 🎵 Been listening to: In My Room by Julia Wolfe The Romantic Spirituals album by KAMAUU 3 Legs by Paul McCartney KIARI album by Offset KIARI has …
Sep 9, 2025: Being on a NYC rooftop never gets old.
Sep 8, 2025: 💬 From my current read, How Big Things Get Done: Only 8.5% of projects hit the mark on both cost and time. And a minuscule .5% nail cost, time, and …
Sep 7, 2025: ✍️ I wrote an open letter to the anonymous person who stole my shoes last night. 🥾🏃♂️
Sep 6, 2025: ✍️ New post on the blog: Conversations With Dead People—Who’s On Your Mt. Rushmore? Thinking alot about those special voices we internalize and the …
Sep 6, 2025: ✏️ Found a “new word” list from 2022 in an old pocket notebook. There are some real gems I forgot about; definitely one of my favorite …
Sep 6, 2025: Goodmorning, Brooklyn. 🌅
Sep 5, 2025: ✍️Seven Minute Drill #1 In hip-hop, the Seven Minute Drill (made famous by J. Cole) is a songwriting exercise where an artist has 7 minutes to write a …
Sep 5, 2025: ❓Question for the folks on micro.blog! Need a new computer and am really wanting to run Linux from the get-go: What laptop would be best for this? My …
Sep 5, 2025: Just pre-ordered and feel comfortable pre-recommending! Been a fan of Cas ever since I saw her on Netflix’s ‘Abstract.’
Sep 4, 2025: ✍️ I wrote a brief journal entry on my blog about imagination, monotony, and a thirst for life. Here is a snippet: But what Chesterton forgets is …
Sep 1, 2025: Big bro teaching me some archery in Oregon— lovely way to spend a holiday. ❤️
Aug 27, 2025: A peaceful showcase of a lovely man: Inside a Painter’s Mythical NYC Studio of 55 Years I adore the pocket notebook he pulled out and the obviously …
Aug 23, 2025: 💬 From Victor Papanek in Design For The Real World: Man and his environment participate in molding each other. Man is now in the position of actually …
Aug 22, 2025: As a 29 year old who has always felt his age, very rarely do I fall to prey anxieties about “time is passing” or “I’m getting old.” But getting an …
Aug 19, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Eleemosynary: relating to or dependent on charity; charitable.
Aug 17, 2025: ✍️ New post on my blog: Moving From Curiosity To A “Thirst For Life” Brief thoughts, simple, and thrown off quickly, but definitely a …
Aug 17, 2025: Inspired by Open Style Lab’s exhibition of their footwear kit yesterday. In six weeks, the organization made a truly innovate kit for footwear that …
Aug 16, 2025: 🎥🍿 Thoughts On ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ by Spike Lee: bradley-andrews.com
Aug 14, 2025: 💬 From Pablo Picasso (as quoted by Gertrude Stein): “When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to …
Aug 14, 2025: ✏️ New Words Learned: Crepuscular: of, resembling, or relating to twilight Matutinal: of, or occurring in the morning Vespertine: relating to, …
Aug 14, 2025: 🎥🍿 My very low-stakes review of “Weapons' by Zach Cregger. Warning: Spoilers!
Aug 13, 2025: Bumped my K1000 & jammed it up. I’m learning to repair & maintain my belongings where I can, so I watched a Youtube video and went for …
Aug 10, 2025: ✍️The Wisdom Is In Your Movement.
Aug 10, 2025: ✏️ New Term Learned: Amuse-Bouche: a small dish of food or a drink taken before a meal or the main course of a meal to stimulate one’s appetite …
Aug 9, 2025: ✍️ Some of my thoughts on a favorite Kendrick Lamar lyric and why Progress Is My Favorite Form of Procrastination.
Aug 9, 2025: If even the rich feel burdened by the lack of an ideal, to those who suffer real deprivation an ideal is first a necessity of life. Where there is …
Aug 9, 2025: 🎶 Unbelievable performance from Clipse last night in Brooklyn. Hip hop legends performing what is guaranteed to be rap album of the year.
Aug 8, 2025: 💬 A thought about tricksters, creativity, and the sacred from Byrd Gibbens: Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any …
Aug 7, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Refection: refreshment of mind, spirit, or body especially; NOURISHMENT
Aug 6, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Caparisoned: to provide with or as if with a rich ornamental covering (especially of a horse)
Aug 6, 2025: 📷 Washington Square Park, NYC
Aug 5, 2025: 🎥🍿I wrote a brief analysis on Ari Aster’s Eddington: Indeed, at its core, Eddington is a tale about communication—or, rather, …
Aug 2, 2025: 💬 A good note on hospitality from The Odyssey: If you are longing to go home, I would not keep you for the world, not I. I’d think myself or any …
Aug 1, 2025: 📷 Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC, 35mm on Portra 400
Jul 31, 2025: ✏️ New Word Learned: Perfidy: deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.
Jul 30, 2025: 📷 Abandoned office space in Midtown, Manhattan taken on 35mm film, Portra 400
Jul 29, 2025: 📝👴 “Companies are not the only complex systems that require pivots and reinventions. People need them too. And when it comes to longevity, we …
Jul 29, 2025: 🎵🎥 Machine Gun Kelly having one of the best dance sequences in a music video in recent memory is so unexpected… but so enjoyable. Shoutout also to …
Jul 27, 2025: eatbigfish is a strategy consultancy in the UK that has heavily inspired a project I’m working on. When they offered to send free copies of a magazine …
Jul 26, 2025: 🎵 I cancelled my music streaming services a few months ago and have instead been burning CD’s to my iPod. Found 7 albums (for only $1 each!) at …
Jul 25, 2025: 💬 “Everything must be taken seriously, nothing tragically.”— Louis Adolphe Thiers A solid reminder in today’s political environment.
Jul 25, 2025: Hello, micro.blog. My name is Bradley.
Jul 25, 2025: 📷 Leisurely reader at Franciscan Monastery, Washington DC Taken on 35mm film, Portra 400.