Writing all this down, you know what? I’m kind of mad about it too. Not so mad that I’ll go chasing obviously-ill-fated scurrilous rainbow financial instruments. But there’s something here that needs solving. If I’m not solving it, or part of it, or at least trying, then I’m… wasting my time. Who cares about money? This is a systemic train wreck, well underway.
We have, in Western society, managed to simultaneously botch the dreams of democracy, capitalism, social coherence, and techno-utopianism, all at once. It’s embarrassing actually. I am embarrassed. You should be embarrassed.
Writing Cultures & Work
Love this piece from Johannes about writing cultures, async work and the tools we use:
johannesklingebiel.de/wiki/Bett…
And in our Twitter exchange he links to this piece that I need to read that has some juicy details about Amazon’s 6-page memo culture:
writingcooperative.com/the-anato…
“That’s the thing with anger, it begs to stick around”
From the great album by Sam Fender. This lyric has crushed me recently - I keep seeing this idea everywhere.
From yelling at my kids to watching people behave angrily on the subway… Anger is such an insidious force that just destroys people from the inside out.
There’s always room to breathe. Don’t pay your anger forward.
Here’s a great post from Matt: interconnected.org/home/2021…
