As I age from maiden into crone (many millennials missed mother) I find myself uncovering emotions I missed during the forced march through corporate feminism & Girlbossism. The meritocracy takes its pound of flesh. I climbed the chaos ladder & am grateful for my perch but I did not understand what I sacrificed to participate […]
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Day 1228 and Fabric of Our Lives
I love cotton. In my Waldorf third grade, our year long class project was to plant, grow, harvest, gin, card, spin & dye cotton. Along with a similar wool project, this childhood experience instilled a love of fibers, fabrics & textiles in me. Early in my career I crashed textile trade shows like Premiere Vision […]
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Day 1227 and Storm
I’ve been following NOAA Space Weather forecasts as there is an extreme geomagnetic storm. Scientific research stations and news media have been reporting avidly on the solar storm as it’s producing aurora in areas which typically don’t see northern lights. It’s fun to have another shared social astronomical event to enjoy across the planet. This […]
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Day 1224 and Sliced Bread
I am going to enjoy myself a little and complain. I hope this kvetching provides you with some amusement. I hate the following idiom. It’s the best thing since sliced bread. According to linked Perplexity search above this phrase has come to represent good & useful innovation. This is wrong. Sliced bread is not a […]
The curriculum of classical economics can be a bit of a blackpill if you are an optimist about the good in humanity. Economists operate from a model that presumes human wants are infinite but our resources are not. Yes it is reductive, but if your goal is to model something on spreadsheet give got to […]
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Day 1222 and No Exit
Even the most niche corner of the Internet can deliver fame instantly and irrevocably. I don’t think your average person is aware of just how much fame can be delivered by algorithm and how impossible it can be to shed it once you’ve gotten it. If Andy Warhol could revise his “15 minutes of fame” […]
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Day 1221 and Migraines
I get really bad migraines. I do what o can to manage them but they are a frequent and challenging enough issue for me that I’ve got 45 separate entries on the topic. I’d prefer not to discuss it at all as it’s not a very pleasant experience but it can be so overwhelming that […]
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Day 1220 and Four Lights
There is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard is captured and tortured by an alien species called the Cardassians. It is called Chain of Command and is a two part episode. It’s become a touchstone episode because of a famous scene in which Picard is tortured by a Cardassians Gul using […]
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Day 1219 and Right To Cause Chaos
There is a lot of noise at the moment. But occasionally a single event is so loud you can’t help but overhear it. America’s President Joe Biden caught my attention with this rather singular statement. “There’s the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos” I am not well informed on this current […]
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Day 1217 and Triggered
I deliberately put myself into an exercise today where I gave another person permission to trigger me. I mean trigger in the emotional sense. caused to feel an intense and usually negative emotional reaction : affected by an emotional trigger Merriam Webster I very much recommend the experience. If we workout our bodies and our minds surely […]