👽 Miscellaneous
- Rating: 7/10
- Will Eat Again: Unlikely
- Comment: Nerds Gummy Clusters, But If The Founders Were Half Latino
- Recommend To Try: Yes
- 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.
- I wonder what Ivan Illich would say?
- I wonder if Orson Scott Card’s idea of “Speaker for the Dead” will one day emerge?
- Without Drake, we wouldn’t have Bad Bunny.
- It’s actually cool to be the first person that shows up at a party.
- It’s not brunch unless someone orders a dish with eggs in it.
- Adults would be way happier if they skipped more (as in, walking rhythmically with a bouncing step).
- If you start a sentence and then say “never mind,” you should be allowed to drop it without being harassed.
- The first person to say “we should hang out soon” is the one responsible for reaching out and setting it up.
- Beverage makers don’t focus enough on making their drinks visually appealing, outside of the packaging.
😵💫 Strange Snack of the Week: Rotten Spicy Sour Gummy Cruncheez
🗿 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.
🖍️ New semester, new sketch notes. I’m rusty, but here’s snippets from my Corporate Turnaround and Change Mgmt. courses.
🃏 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.
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!
🃏 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
🎉 Today would’ve been the 100th birthday of the one and only— Ivan Illich. Truly, Illich possessed an intellect, a spirit, and an integrity that the world has rarely seen. I am from a very different generation, but owe him a great debt and am grateful for the life he lived.
“Man must choose whether he wants to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.”
☕️ I was sitting in a coffee shop today when two teenagers swung open the door and dragged themselves to the counter. Peeping the menu through their broccoli hair and dark bangs, they asked the barista, “Do you have a pumpkin spice latte?”
It has begun. 🙏
🗽 August ‘26, no context photos.
🚑 A great research paper from NBER was just released, suggesting that New York City’s congestion pricing program has cut total emergency medical service travel times by over a minute on average. As contentious as the decision has been, the policy seems to be having positive results.
📰 I read this New Yorker article on Death Doulas and have thought about it everyday. It’s a long read, yet worthwhile. In a diff world, I could see me doing this.
Two q’s:
📣 Some of you have had questions— and doubts — about Never Bored Inc., and I wanted to clear the air. Never Bored is a TOTALLY REAL and ABSOLUTELY NOT FICTITIOUS company that I now intern for. Here is proof. You too can join the team by applying for a role.
Never Bored Inc. — the best job ever!
💸 Today I learned that Hudson Valley has it’s own alternative currency, recognized by the IRS, that can only be used within the Hudson Valley.
In theory, this strengthens businesses and life quality in the local community. Amazing experiment I’ll be keeping an eye on.
And it’s pretty to boot! 😍
🌷 Long live flowers
🔊 Stumbled across this github study of the vibrating plane. It allows you to draw your own drum top and adjust the sonics of the waves. Not sure I understand it entirely, but something about it is fascinating to me. People are so creative.
Make sure to turn your sound on!
🃏 New joke:
Question: What was Robert Oppenheimer’s favorite book?
Answer: Atomic Habits.
I’ll be here all week.
🎙️ Rick Glassman’s podcast with Logan & Dylan from Love on the Spectrum is so fun, funny, and entertaining. Rick has increasingly won my listenership, but this one might have made me a real fan. Best to watch the pod, if possible, for the animation and facial expressions. But listening works too.
🚇 After a popular part 1 and part 2, here is a new round of Subway Takes that you can steal for conversation (or if you are recruited to star in the hit short-form vertical video series):
🎨 Found this small, inconspicuous graffiti sticker from artist Neck Face on a random fire extinguisher on the Upper East Side:
Enough SpiderMan Movies!
Neck Face’s style is not the most inviting or easy to understand. Nonetheless, there is an attitude to it that those with eyes to see might find worthwhile.
🤝 Tips for Extroverts #174:
Need quick social stimulus? Put on a red shirt and head to Target.