The modern war on perfection is a secular war.
Katie Musgrave
May 2026
Look I love all generations so I mean no disrespect. I really think we should just all come together and agree that the millennial whoop is the worst thing ever to happen to music.
O Me! O Life! By Walt Whitman www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/515…
Remember The Name (Highlight Reel) - Fort Minor www.youtube.com/watch
At 100, David Attenborough’s Voice Is a Lesson in Wonder and Planetary Stewardship: time.com/article/2…
The magic of early internet culture: In 1996 I’m in Stauffer Library at Queen’s, standing at one terminal emailing my friend who’s at another. The sheer delight and novelty of that communication—and of being able to search up the lyrics to your favourite songs. It was fundamentally …
When a speech act is actively seeking an audience, it becomes increasingly self-conscious and self-reflexive. This is intensified when expression is mediated through algorithms and growth metrics. Speaking becomes more natural and confident when you become an audience to your self first—speaking to …
More Cowbell vimeo.com/467158620
The attention economy runs on a triumvirate: forced posting, forced consumption, forced engagement. The more we actively shift to an interest economy, the more sustainable creatorship becomes.
Organic 2.0
The more refined the skill, the more natural it appears.
April 2026
My Maple is now on a health journey that’s put life into focus. Where she’s been my constant companion and comfort, it’s my turn now to be that for her—and just put all love and joy at her for as long as I get to. In that clarity, the universe just gave us three days of glorious …
Eating for macros is a whole different bag.
Craft > content
Smile at strangers. Hold doors for them. Chat to people waiting or seated next to you. Get to know your neighbours. Host gatherings. Play games together. Start a community project. Befriend people of younger and older generations.
LOTR | The Lighting of the Beacons: youtu.be/mFuOTwdcp…
How technocracy has become our reality | The Listening Post: www.youtube.com/watch
The guys riding the lawnmowers in the park left the tall grass with the buttercups. My kind of people 🌼
We might view our combined knowledge as a form of collective cognition. Within this aggregate, each human life has a distinct point of view and lived experience that cannot be fully captured or reproduced. Wisdom remains grounded in human life because it emerges from personal, social and biological …
Core KPIs: Qualified inbound, referral %, close rate, revenue.
Wondrous new learning for Earth Day: there’s a narrative lexicon to forest structure. The tree canopy is called the overstory, with the understory all the plant life growing beneath.
Conversations around artistry and the machine are saturated.
Of the crucial signs I’ve seen in kids, the most vital is a general decline in their ability to imagine. To generate—from their own minds—places, stories and perspectives, and to imagine their own selves and others in imagined worlds. It’s the most precious human capacity we have to …
Jack Conte | SXSW 2024 Keynote: www.youtube.com/watch
Soundtracks > trends
Watched: Footloose 🍿
Social media feels most alive when it brings us together through the things we love, the interests we pursue in life and share online. That’s when it’s genuinely fun ✨
Impossible to overstate how much good NASA and the crew of Artemis II have done for humanity at this moment in time. They knew we needed them to give us perspective and hope. The mission was nothing less than a global recalibration. What a massive, massive gift.
Watched: Steel Magnolias 🍿
Currently reading: When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard 📚
Testing 🌸