🎶 Incredible new track from Yovel - Scroll. Post. Like. Die..
From the forthcoming album.
🕊️🏴 A friend and Richard Beck (Experimental Theology) both pointed me to this Paul Kingsnorth lecture, so, despite being mildly allergic to talk of “the West”1, I watched and enjoyed it.
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See the first essay in Graeber’s newest posthumous book, also archived here: There Never Was a West ↩︎
Yes, TikTok actually is a threat to America. …
Oh but also so is X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube, and any algorithmic feeds.
And they’re threats everywhere.
TIL there’s such a thing as “dodgeball open gym” and now I want that in my life.
Where can I do that in #Indy ?
Neighborhood magnolias are budding again to bloom 😬
📚 For those pre-ordering, Stormlight Archive #5, Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson, is available DRM-free on ebooks.com Same price I’m seeing on the lock-in bookstores.
The media environment is so incredibly bad.
I keep hearing from voters who hadn’t heard (what I thought were) well-known and important facts, and voters who’d been fed endless propaganda and lies.
We have to end algorithmic timelines and targeted ads. Journalism doesn’t stand a chance against them.
🎶 I’ve been going back and checking out some Alice In Chains, and MTV Unplugged is still by far their best album.
🔒 Big improvements to calls in Signal: call links
🎶 share your Industrial Techno recommendations?
I like these artists that have expanded:
- Umek (Laibach)
- Rhys Fulber (FLA, Noise Unit, etc.)
Also:
- Under Black Helmet
- I Hate Models
And the label:
- Mord
pride, vanity, meaningless crowns
kingdom come let the rest burn down
🎶 found succinct language to clarify my musical tastes:
don’t confuse a preference for originality or for subversion as a desire for exclusivity
📑 Sunday Quote
From “knowledge worker” to “wisdom worker”
Last night I enjoyed chatting with folks at the Rose-Hulman sesquicentennial celebration.
I met Jim Grey whose blogs I’ve read frequently.
We were talking about value in engineering etc. leadership, good judgment, and good decision-making.
The title of this post is a large part of my perspective. One of my goals is to always be moving myself and others:
from knowledge worker to wisdom worker
Being a wisdom worker can entail a lot of things. But for me, it’s considering things like:
- how easy is this choice to adopt or adapt to?
- does this scale?
- can we maintain this easily?
- what are the unintended or knock-on effects?
- what are the likely failure modes?
- how would we tell if this was effective/successful?
Knowledge, information, data: they sometimes help. They can provide answers to questions.
Wisdom, challenges, lessons: these are what help us come up with the most important questions to consider and detect bad answers.
Especially in a world where people have more and more ways and places to quickly get (all-too-often low quality) answers, it becomes more important to be able to ask the right questions, and interrogate the results when they don’t pass the sniff test.
How are you moving from knowledge worker to wisdom worker?
Action 1: #NonviolentStruggle
Public Speeches
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type: protest, persuasion, formal statement
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e.g.: Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream”
actions taken from: Waging Nonviolent Struggle by Gene Sharp 📚
🕊️🗳️ The thing I keep thinking about:
As the behavior and rhetoric worsened, more and more people chose villainy.
Fear is what makes villainy “acceptable.”
One can’t reason with fear. Fear is deeper.
Virtue and hope must be cultivated in advance, to undermine fear’s ability to take root.
Profiles/about updated.
Woke up to find that Russia won the election.
Hoosiers: you can be better than this.