From one of my sources for balanced, considered reason.
As I try to cover the news tonight, I am struck by how completely the Republican Party, which began in the 1850s as a noble endeavor to keep the United States government intact and to rebuild it to work for ordinary people, has devolved into a group of chaos agents feeding voters a fantasy world.
🔗 Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248
In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God’s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God’s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator.
💬 Nick Cave
“A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.”
💬 Benjamin Disraeli
““It is, except that now we have a disorganised one.”
💬 John Naughton
Bonus on the click through. Posters!
How many priorities do you have in your business and life right now?
If you’re struggling to gain traction, perhaps its your lack of focus that’s causing your lack of growth.
💬 Shawn Blanc
He might just be right when it comes to me.
“if you aren’t living on the edge you are taking up too much space”
💬 Who Knows
Much as I like the quote, as far as I can tell, there is not a single attributable source.
I definitely do not live on the edge - in any shape nor form. But, I do try to ‘live small’ and not take up too much space.
Recently been thinking that despite best efforts, it seems I am still taking up too much.
Or is my thinking muddied by others living too large and encroaching on my little corner?
And finally I get it. All this planning, all this assessing of sequences and balancing of resources, it all does exactly what outlines do. It lets you feel busy while you put off the actual writing.
💬 William Gallagher
and
I hadn’t thought of it like that, but the instant it was said to me, I couldn’t disagree. I just didn’t do it.
“I’m afraid I’ll be eating my breakfast one morning and choke and I don’t want to die alone.”
and then there is this ….
… she’s talking about Sam Altman
🔗 You can read the whole piece by Molly here, which includes substantial thinking on the challenges of decentralized identity.
The …
🔗 Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers)
An interesting read from Ted Gioia … but later on in the piece he talks about archives, a topic I have been mulling recently.
“I’ve never been indicted and I am not a lawyer, but if you are deleting evidence, it is because you know you are committing a crime and anybody who supports this, anybody who defends this, is complicit in endangering America.”
💬 Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a 2024 presidential candidate