Notes | Brutkey

Get in, loser. We’re appropriating the language of the oppressors

I was in a social setting recently where one person was talking about how they had retired, but didn’t like it, so they unretired

After 3 years, even if I wanted to, my industry has changed so much I simply could not unretire. Not because I can’t learn new techniques, but because interviews generally don’t proceed much further beyond, “Well, your company’s leadership are all idiots.”

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Just a reminder that if I begin a post with “What kind of idiot…,” the post is autobiographical

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Two-factor authorization: Yes, if your mom says it’s okay

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Fix the climate? We can’t even fix Daylight Saving Time.

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“…[T]here is one thing the river, the tree, and the gods can surely use that we can give them. That is some silence and some space in which to be the beings that they are. Those silences and spaces are our most essential offerings, and I am sorry that we call them by silly names like National Park or National Monument.”

—Robert Bringhurst

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“Everything is just one big joke to you isn’t it?”

“Actually, what you call everything is an emergent property of the interaction of billions and billions of tiny little jokes.”