New music discovery via my friend Nic Lake. The HU is a band from Mongolia that blends heavy metal and traditional Mongolian throat singing.
Exactly the soundtrack we need for this apocalypse!
I’ve updated the list of the books I’ve read so far this year to current.
Kai Brach on the changes coming to Offscreen Magazine
I also want to reaffirm here what I said in my newsletter: public pledges that respond to current events change little if there is no sustained effort to continue to educate ourselves and others on the issue of racism.
Nicholas Bate delivers his 3×5 card productivity system. Explained in a paragraph and fits on a single card. Rinse and repeat daily.
“It’s easy to say no if you love something.”
Winston’s Fourth of July plans:
Stay home and take a nap.
Be like Winston.
The revolution *is* televised…
It’s on the 24 hour news channels. An everlasting mirror of who we’ve become. Gil said, “The first change that takes place is in your mind.” But now, our minds are all online.
We broadcast our loves and our hates. We retweet our support for our heroes and disdain for our enemies. We transmit every transgression and cancel those that fail to meet the mark. We all have cameras now, so we film the “Karens” and the cops. We are the anchors and the audience. Everyone is reporting live, local, and up to the minute.
We air what we’re thinking, who we’re voting for, and what we believe in. No investigation is needed because there are no secrets – only news not yet discovered. Any harbored thought not shared is deemed suspect. Your dreams are live in three, two, one…
All the news that fits the narrative of now, breaking and live, for the whole world to see. Delivered the way you live your life. Seeing the world as it is — not fair and unbalanced. We’re mad as hell and can’t stop taking in more and more of the feed. The ticker tells the tale of our discontent with it all.
When the screen is off it’s a mirror, reflecting a loneliness we can’t bear. Yet, when it’s on, it’s a mirror of a different kind, reflecting the humanity we’ve let slip away.
Gil said, “You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move…It will just be something you see and you’ll think, “Oh I’m on the wrong page.”
The real revolution, therefore, is not on the television or on the front page.
The revolution we need will be a buried lede.
In her latest newsletter, Rebecca Toh reminds us that all work is important work when infused with meaning, right intention, and love.
Out of all the newsletters I read each week, her’s is often the one that gives me the thing I needed to hear.
I needed this.
Been having intermittent internet connection all week due to a faulty DSL modem. My sledgehammer/pennynail solution was to replace it with Fiber which is currently being installed.
While I’m sure I’ll be happy about the speed, I’m actually most excited about a stable connection.
Sarah Peck reminds us that you can be consistent and consistently take breaks.. In fact, it’s healthy.