✍ Writing & Words
✏️ New Word Learned:
Parturition: the action of giving birth to young; childbirth
✏️ New Word Learned:
Etiolated: having lost vigor or substance; feeble
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Pettifogging: placing undue emphasis on petty details
🗞️ From Dispatch #002 of Mercury’s Playbook:
Indeed—of all the marketplaces and industries in the world, luxury is perhaps the most intriguing when it comes to consumer psychology, simply because it proves that utility and functionality are not the end-all-be-all of product appeal. It provides a rich study into one of humanity’s most fundamental desires—the need to feel special, superior, and set apart. When it comes to crafting desirable products, no one does it better than the luxury industry because luxury is product charged with meaning to the utmost degree.
🗞️ The very first dispatch of my business strategy newsletter is out now: mercurysplaybook.com
✍️ 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.
✏️ 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 habits!
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 Word Learned:
Eleemosynary: relating to or dependent on charity; charitable.
✍️ 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.
✏️ New Words Learned:
Crepuscular: of, resembling, or relating to twilight
Matutinal: of, or occurring in the morning
Vespertine: relating to, occurring, or active in the evening
✏️ 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
✍️ Some of my thoughts on a favorite Kendrick Lamar lyric and why Progress Is My Favorite Form of Procrastination.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Refection: refreshment of mind, spirit, or body especially; NOURISHMENT
✏️ New Word Learned:
Caparisoned: to provide with or as if with a rich ornamental covering (especially of a horse)