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NEWSLETTER #0064 – Non nobis solum

Our newsletter title is a bit of collectivist goodness. Pitch in! Help out! We’re all in this together: Non Nobis Solum The motto is derived from a sentence in Cicero’s most influential philosophical (more…)

Posted on 26 April, 2024 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0063 – Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol said our newsletter title this week. There’s no line if you know how to expertly cross it. Here’s some cows jumping off a boat into a large body of water. [video width=”480″ height=”848″ (more…)

Posted on 5 April, 20244 June, 2025 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0062 – Wisdom through tears.

I talk about the title below, in the social / culture / people section. It’s about being able to sit with sadness or a complex emotion and learning and growing from it. I used to be SUPER reactive and (more…)

Posted on 12 January, 20246 March, 2024 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0061 – Do the work, and step aside.

Let’s start with some Pete Holmes philosophy. Technology helps, but it destroyed us and our humanity. You know it, but this is fantastic: @peteholmes I very much dislike waze. @adamcarollashow #peteholmes (more…)

Posted on 27 December, 202327 December, 2023 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0060 – Beware the fury of a patient man.

The line is from John Dryden and his poem “Absalom and Achitophel”, written in heroic couplets in 1681. I’ll put the entire poem at the bottom. It’s a GREAT read. Also, a similar quote: “There are three (more…)

Posted on 19 November, 202319 November, 2023 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0059 – Genius is an event, not a person.

Hannah Gadsby was on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, and they said the title / subject line of this newsletter. I can’t stop thinking about it. Essentially, would gravity have never been figured (more…)

Posted on 11 November, 202311 November, 2023 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0058 – The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.

Wilhelm Stekel is the quote. This is the entire passage (inset w/ quote blocks), but it leads us to think deeply about action, inaction, community, and being part of something larger than yourself. The (more…)

Posted on 6 October, 2023 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0057 – “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t”

Bill Nye is the newsletter quote. Here he is, in fact, and he’s not teaching kids anymore. What a guy! nb: he’s swearing like a pirate.     Also, a meditation: A flower does not (more…)

Posted on 10 September, 2023 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0056 – A person who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

MAUI It’s incredibly raw, it’s still too hard to truly process, but we got tired of talking and sympathizing from a keyboard, so we’re throwing a DJ gig for Lahaina and the citizens and friends of Maui. (more…)

Posted on 16 August, 202319 August, 2023 By Uncle Fishbits
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Newsletter #0055 – We moderns are distracted from distraction by distraction.

“Distracted from distraction by distraction” is a line from T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton, which was published in 1936. The line means that we are letting the distraction of modern life, media, add now (more…)

Posted on 28 July, 2023 By Uncle Fishbits

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