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💬 My coworker dropping some accidental wisdom this AM:

“Remember, as strange as it sounds, a dull knife is the most dangerous kind of knife.”

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🍕 I had Alvo’s vodka pizza with sesame seed crust three times this week. No regrets—but also, please send help.

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✏️ New Term Learned:

Lake Wobegon Effect: the human tendency to overestimate one’s capabilities and achievements in relation to others.

I’ve heard many names for this bias, but this name is fun since it comes from a book that describes a fictional town where “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and the children are all above average.” 🤣

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✍️ A Brief Note On Spotify Economics and The Cessation of the Penny: bradley-andrews.com

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🎵 Been listening to:

Divinize has a few unreasonably gorgeous lyrics. Youtube Playlist Here.

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🫶 The Oxford Comma

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💬 Maintenance: Of Everything:

MAINTENANCE is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. Every living thing spends a great deal of time and toil in maintaining its own life and the life of the systems it depends on… But so much of doing maintenance is tiresome. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional. It it easy to put off, and yet it has to be done…. When you take responsibility for something, you enter into a contract to take care of it. If it’s a child, to keep it fed. If it’s a knife, to keep it sharp.

Thanks to @snarfed for the discovery. I recommend the full passage.

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🖍️ More miscellaneous sketch notes from biz school

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🐶 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 Finn

Girl Names:

Luna Bella Daisy Lucy Ruby Willow Maggie Penny Nova Sadie

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💬 Prodigal Son by James Weldon Johnson (1927)

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👀 The view from TikTok HQ

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✏️ New Word Learned:

Therianthropic: combining human and animal form; esp. relating to religions in which the deities worshiped are partly human and partly animal

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📚 Let’s goooooooo

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💬 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

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✏️ New Term Learned:

Caveat Emptor: a Latin phrase meaning “let the buyer beware”; the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made

Should a business student like me have known what this meant before today? Probably… but here we are.

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💬 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 effects that geographers and biologists have in the past associated with environments. The medium is the message because the environment transforms our perceptions governing the areas of attention and neglect alike… All of my recommendations, therefore, can be reduced to this one: study the modes of the media, in order to hoick all assumptions out of the subliminal, non-verbal realms for scrutiny and for prediction and control of human purpose."

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🫶 NYC stores that provide free and clean public restrooms

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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.

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📰 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 research work of Meta’s Fundamental AI Research Lab (Fair), which LeCun has headed since 2013, to focus on more rapidly rolling out models and AI products after deciding that Meta had fallen behind the competition. Over the summer, Zuckerberg hired Alexandr Wang to lead a new “superintelligence” team at Meta, paying $14.3bn to hire the 28-year-old founder of data-labelling start-up Scale AI and acquire a 49 per cent interest in his company.

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🎵 Been listening to:

I’ve added songs that I recommend on Micro.blog to a Youtube playlist and will try to keep updated.