7 Takeaways

NFTs. Concepts. More concepts. Still more concepts. Getting older. What you consume. Facebook. Friends.

Doubt. Wisdom. Book summaries. Digital music. Medical care. Entitled babies. Amazon & Apple.

Being rational. Being nice. Being quiet. Being present. Being American. Being quiet. Being supportive.

Civil discourse. Anger. Self-consciousness. Landlords. Disruption/WFH. Attitude. DO SOMETHING.

The dissatisfaction of democracy, Pretending, Foolishness, Conformity, Honesty, Hope, The problem of the century

Generations, Tracking, Truth, Change, Tyranny, Guilt, & Boring.

Running around the mountain, giving up on books, trolls, note-taking, truth, growing old.

Remembering, Optimism, Power, Reading for Comprehension, Writing is the Only Thing, Brain Food, Hope.

Dan Rather, “OK, Boomer”, doing the work, falling (and getting up), pandemic future, monkeys, life after 64.

1. “. . . care more than everybody else . . .” Ignorant, but curious – Austin Kleon – (Blog) The full quote: If you care more than everybody else, you pay better attention, and you see things that others don’t see. To ask the questions that need to be asked, you have to care more than others about what happens, but care less about what others might think of you in the moment. I got here via a circle of curiosity: Rob Walker on curiosity (Kleon) -> The Art of Noticing (Rob Walker’s Newsletter) -> Curiouser? (Rob Walker) -> … Read more