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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)