This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

art as opportunity

I'm glad we live in the universe where David Lynch created a primetime TV show, at the height of broadcast television

We often confuse intelligence and success with expertise. Just because someone is smart and has found success in a specific domain, does not make them an expert in other domains.

It is an invitation to disaster giving unilateral control of a broad set of expert systems to someone who has had very deep success in a very narrow domain, is often the smartest person in a room, and is never told when he isn't.

Marco Rubio has the look of a man who is just realizing the devil demands more from him in the deal for his soul.

My interest in the "do audio books count as reading" question is not so much nailing down the category of reading but a desire to know more about someone's experience of reading. 1/

Cowboy boots are not a running through the airport shoe.

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One of my favorite experiences reading is when a book takes a while to win you over and then completely converts you. You look back on a skeptical experience and now see genius there; some enlightened revisionism. Even better when this happens on the last page.

If meaning is entirely subjective and we are merely heaping meaning on indifferent objects are we not also objects and then are not those objects of meaning more like soil that produces meaning in us and in so doing roots meaning in those objects, making meaning objective?

Choosing reads by color scheme

I told someone my laptop password in a dream last night. Did I get incepted?

You know how sometimes you get a bag of chips with a few chips that probably went through the cooking process a couple times? I'm telling you I would pay extra for a bag of just those missed after the first go-around chips. Why isn't that a thing?

Should I get some kind of Kindle mount for my gravel bike for long climbs and straightaways? I'm not seeing a downside.

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