Category: quantified self
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This is Where My Life is
Today is the first day of 2019 that I remembered to write the correct year when dating my journal.
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Holidays 2017, Explained (Part One)
“This is the school for fools in love. Did I mention? Pay attention!” —Bootsy Collins, Worth My While (feat. Kali Ulchis) Last May, I mentioned wanting to get back to New Orleans by the end of this year. Our anniversary had just passed, Robert E. Lee’s statue had been removed from Lee Circle, and I […]
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2017 in Music
“Love. Long as we got…”—SZA, Love Galore 2016 ended in such a discombobulated fashion that I didn’t do my usual annual accounting of the music that mattered. At least not in a blog post. In some private slack channel, Solange’s A Seat at the Table was my most important album of the year while DJ […]
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Thank You
“There’s no righteousness in your darkest moment.” — Sleater-Kinney, Sympathy Thank you, 2015, for pushing me to go beyond what’s comfortable. For giving Tiffany great work opportunities and a shake up to her routine (and mine). For London. For meaningful conversations with loved ones. For Dominique Toney on my tv. For Omaha. For 80 years […]
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A list of things I’m doing while my wife is away being awesome
“I just can’t wait to get you home with me.” – Tuxedo, Get U Home Tiffany is off to Washington DC for a few months doing good works. She’s been doing cool shit all year (ed. note: Have you bought CSS Master yet? Stop reading right now and improve your code life) but this […]
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On Living Wisely: Finding Meaning in the In-Between Time
“Offer me something inside. A place to go. A place to hide.” – Jessie Ware, Something Inside What does it mean to live a good life? What about a productive life? How about a happy life? How might I think about these ideas if the answers conflict with one another? – Richard J. Light, […]
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