Read. Do it for you. Do it for the world. Encourage the same in others.

In any given day, I read articles, books, social media posts, blog entries, poems, lyrics, comics, and countless other things. Sure, some of it is brain candy, garbage. But something I encounter every day makes me thingk, makes me feel, makes me connect with the world.

And don’t get caught up in or discouraged by what other people read, or what they value as reading or readable. Some of my most meaningful encounters with ideas have come from sources others wouldn’t value.

I read Hyperion right when it came out. I was already a Simmons fan, but Hyperion was a new level of experience. I make it a point to re-read it every few years. I always find something new to appreciate.

You are absolutely right on with that observation, Jason. Community & connection are the center of our programmatic universe at SVSU.

@scalzi.com I went to tag you and realized I wasn’t actually following you yet. You just show up in my feed so often I thought I already had. Fixed that now. I look forward to the rest of Starter Villain and to discovering more from you down the road.

Anyone with masculinity so fragile that it can be easily threatened should not be celebrating their masculinity. How emotionally immature do you have to be to look around and think that everything from emotion to colors to physical intimacy and all words referring to these things are out to get you?

I see April fools in the photo. Or maybe just everyday fools. No need to give them a special day.

That is not leadership. That is self-serving, self-aggrandizing oppression. It is not civil. It is not humane. It does not serve the greater good. It is not worthy of celebration, respect, or praise. Nothing more than petty acts by petty men in service to pathetic dreams of conquest.

When rules of law and systems of governance such the Constitution get in the way, they ignore them, or say that all of that legal history & systemic maturation is wrong. They are not resourceful enough or respectful enough to work within the system, so they tear it down.

All of DDT’s orders are destructive. He tears down what others have built. He can’t claim that any of it is his vision for change. It is all borrowed. In that regard, his executioner is a likely accomplice. The billionaire who buys other people’s accomplishments and then claims them as his own.

It is said as if it took work to draft and sign an executive order, an act that requires no building of consensus, no campaigning or concessions, no creation of energy or excitement or sense of accomplishment. It is a pen stroke.

“A lot of people have wanted this for a long time,” he says. Always a lie. “A lot of people said it couldn’t be done.” Code for millions of people saying it shouldn’t be done. Not the same thing. “But we got it done.”

You, sir, are a good human. Many thanks for being exactly that.

Although you posted this a while back, I wonder how things worked out or if you are still making choices.

Donald Norman’s Design for a Better World.