✍️ Writing
✍️ Streamers Are Clowns: bradley-andrews.com
🎤 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 and sealed via decision by US court 🤣:
Over the course of 16 days, the two artists released eight so-called “diss tracks,” with increasingly heated rhetoric, loaded accusations, and violent imagery. The penultimate song of this feud, “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar, dealt the metaphorical killing blow.
🗞️ 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 believe should be mandatory reading for all technologists and media ecology heads.
✍️ 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: bradley-andrews.com/2025/10/0…
🗞️ 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 freedom that is represented in the act. The bendings of our culture lean so heavily toward criticism, consumption, and conformity that even the smallest hint of the alternative constitutes a mini-revolution. People who slant away from the well-worn paths tend to inspire others without even being conscious of it. When someone begins doing what they want—as opposed to just doing what they’re told—it gives courage for others to do the same.
✍️ I wrote some brief thoughts about the concept of ‘F**k You’ money & why I’m not surprised our billionaires persist in their moral malaise. I realize this is semi-political & therefore subject to polarization, but I hope the more pertinent theme I am trying to circumambulate comes through.
✍️ I wrote an open letter to the anonymous person who stole my shoes last night. 🥾🏃♂️
✍️ 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 dead people we converse with.
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 verse with no prep. I am short on time today, so decided to test myself. This is what came out. Will definitely use more often.
✍️ 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 that many adults do experience this “eternal appetite” — it just requires that they fall in love first. After all, romance has many side-effects, and surrounding your beloved with an atmosphere of irrepressible timelessness is one of them. Lovers are hermetically sealed from dullness and become ever new. Can it be that children are just in love with the world in a way that adults are not?
✍️ New post on my blog: Moving From Curiosity To A “Thirst For Life”
Brief thoughts, simple, and thrown off quickly, but definitely a topic I’m going to be meditating on for a while.
✍️ Some of my thoughts on a favorite Kendrick Lamar lyric and why Progress Is My Favorite Form of Procrastination.