Notes | Brutkey

Gavin de Becker writes in Gift of Fear about the gut instincts we all have about unsafe situations and people (and that many of us have learned to ignore, sometimes to our peril). Here's Melinda Gates

I had a similar experience when invited to a dinner of ~30 people and I was seated next to Weev (don't google if you don't know). It was pre-sentencing so pre-Nazi tattoos, etc, but I left the restaurant in less than 5 mins and told my friend, "Never put me in a room with him again"

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During the interview, she described meeting Epstein once. She
claimed she “regretted it from the second I walked in the door”.

“He was abhorrent, he was evil personified. I had nightmares about it
afterwards, so my heart breaks for these young women because that’s
how I felt and here I'm an older woman. My God, I feel terrible for
those young women, he was awful,” she said.

Kim Scheinberg
@kims@mas.to

The holidays can be a really tough time. The advice I often heard was, "Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Help others. Get out of your head." It's perfectly fine advice, but unhelpful if the mere thought of interacting with people is overwhelming. Anyway, here's a thing I did one year that did help:

I bought a Cookie Monster costume, went to the airport, and waited at arrivals with a sign that said "COOKIE"

Didn't have to talk to anyone and boy did I get to watch people's faces light up.

5 people, 4 men in suits and one dressed as Cookie Monster, standing in an airport terminal holding up signs with passenger names on them.
Cookie Monster's sign simply says COOKIE

Kim Scheinberg
@kims@mas.to

This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.

a chart that starts in 1903 with only 8 crayon colors (black, brown, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple red) that shows the number of colors doubling (the colors themselves subdivide on the chart at each year marker) in 1935 and again in 1945m 1958m 1972m 1990, 1998, and 2010 until there are hundreds of colors

Kim Scheinberg
@kims@mas.to

I've been online long enough to have met my spouse on Usenet more than a quarter of a century ago.

I run a philanthropic investment fund to offer an alternative for non-profit social entrepreneurs. It has funded low cost ag in the Congo, regenerative waste in Uganda, and $25 baby incubators, among other things.

I used to write a lot on Quora. These days I mostly prefer shutting up and listening.

I collect wooden #jigsaw #puzzles, #pinball machines, and #hats.

#introduction