Feeling like a seasick urchin because there is a progesterone shortage at the pharmacies. Being alive in America is profoundly absurd.

The Miseducation of Kara Swisher | Edward Ongweso Jr. Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!

“Swisher's intended audience is not you or me, but instead those with power: she writes about and for them. Over the course of a long and storied career closely reporting on the tech industry and its titans, she has aped their motions, sat at their dinner tables…”
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Ew

The devaluation of expertise robs us of so much. I have a vendetta against the design experts who preached that everyone is a designer and pushed for the “democratization of research” so they could sell more seminars.

If AI companies accurately described what their products actually do, instead of scrambling to inject them in every consumer product imaginable, they wouldn’t look like fucking idiots every time it hallucinates and tells people they can cure tinnitus by shoving pennies up their nose.

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"

The song is better too

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

What will the world do to protect one of our oldest civilizations from a blood thirsty military power?

We should have revolted when they started calling the working class “consumers”.

Gillette, Wyoming. Looked like a post industrial lunar landscape. Didn’t stay long.

I’ve bought at least 4.

Maladaptive pattern: Microsoft Outlook is giving me trouble - I hate this useless piece of shit software - Depression After cognitive restructuring: Microsoft Outlook is giving me trouble - Wow... I'm just like a real life astronaut - No depression

Described to my teen daughter the catholic rituals for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday that I had to attend as a child.
With a scrunched forehead she replied, “What’s with all the foot stuff? Someone should look into that.”

I adore this phase of parenting.

This week I read a bunch of consulting articles from 2020-2023. The consistent messaging is that the pandemic transformed companies to be more flexible and work more human-centered. The world sure snapped the other direction sharply.

Today I discovered that drugstores and grocery stores don’t stock shoelaces anymore. Four stores and only found one pair and it was too short.

Taught myself how to solder automotive wiring this week. Motorcycle repair is empowering in a way that fights feeling helpless in today’s world. Proof that when stuff is broken, I can figure it out and have the tools to fix it.

Plus, I get to ride my Guzzi.

Teenagers always existed. We just didn’t commonly recognize that phase of life with a common term until 20th century. We also didn’t yet have the neuroscience to understand the brain development happening in the teen and early adulthood years which makes it a particularly interesting period.

Discovery before selecting a solution always. Saves an immense amount of time and cost. The lean “build, test, learn” methodology is the worst idea. You need to understand the problem context deeply in order to pick a direction that would actually solve your problem.

Problem definition is a deeply underrated tool for solving big hairy problems.

Words to live by, from John Waters.

Accidental self lobotomy from falling face first onto meat thermometer

This is out of control

Happy birthday 🎉

I’ve long believed it’s insane that every building doesn’t run on solar. We’ve had the technology in practical form for decades. Yet we pay for electricity ⚡️ from coal and fossil fuel plants that kill our planet and pipe toxic gas into our homes for heat and cooking.

The powerful are so dumb.

My daughter has always hated writing because printing feels uncomfortable for her. I’m thinking this might provide an alternative that feels better.

Plus, us lefties just have to be different.

Cursive has long been an imperfect solution for fast handwriting. Legibility by others being a primary weakness. Would love to hear what other solutions you found.

Plus—people who can actually make solid decisions about how to build and make other design and implementation choices.

Laughing at myself. What does doing too much look like? Here’s my current list:

-Raising 2 teens solo m
-Building a design consulting business
-Building my painting portfolio
-Trying to publish a poetry manuscript
-learning digital photography
-fixing 2 vintage motorcycles
-writing 2 books

Motorcycle repair is fun when you have another bike that runs or it’s a gloomy day. Frustrating when you have to fix an electrical problem in order to go ride