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Thought: The less technology involved, the better the tool.

Related: The tool with the least moving parts will last the longest.

Also related: Digital bits are moving parts.

Thought: Drivers in California rarely signal. Yet, my rental car steering wheel vibrated with warning every time I even touched a lane marker without doing so like it was scolding me.

Do their cars not scold them? Why not? I wish they would.

Thought: In my experience, when you are friends with a couple, both equal in friendship in your mind, when they split only one of those friendships will remain at the same level it was before. The other, likely, will mostly disappear. Doesn’t have to be that way. And yet…

Thought: With the pandemic, basic situational awareness has gotten worse for many. Things like, how elevators work (don’t get on one going down if you want to go up), how escalators work (don’t get off one and just stand there while figuring out where to go), etc.

You know what microblogging is excellent for? Posting random thoughts that you’ve had rattling around in your brain for a while that may never become any more than that so you can just post them and get them out…

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

— Herbert Rappaport