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“How could your nose be stuffed up when it’s so big?” — coworker in Tokyo expressing sincere doubt when I called in sick, ca. 1991

My mom got a visit from an fbi agent in college who accused her of subscribing to the Columbia Record Club and not paying. Turned out her roommate had placed the order, forging my mom’s signature. This analogy by William Shatner works in more ways than one.

Every day I have to clean up the spam cesspool that my Google Drive "shared with me" folder has become — why doesn't Drive reject docs attached to emails that Gmail has flagged as spam?

Five years later “never” is looking like a good bet

"I think it's time we became pickleball people" — OH in Oakland, CA

All good things start with a ridiculous request

"At what point do people get to do what they want?" — OH in Oakland

"Headliner is lamb" is my new favorite copy

Never realized it before but Mike Pence sounds exactly like Nick Offerman

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Apparently my parents wrote into The New York Times for advice during our Yosemite trip in ‘81 and they just published the response

Great B2B companies feel less like they're selling a product and more like they're evangelizing a movement. 5 principles for crafting a movement-defining strategic narrative, w/detailed examples from Gong, OneTrust, Salesforce, and others:

Honored to have my piece selected by Transom.org (also: @transom.bsky.social) for their Small, Random & Meaningful series (and yes, Ira Glass owes me $5, sort of) transom.org/2023/what-nice…

3 yr old girl in cafe, to strangers with a dog: "I have a dog. And a cat!" Strangers: "Wow." Girl's dad: "We don't have either of those things."

Words that I and Fresh Air Terry Gross say that reveal our Brooklyn roots: inaugural/inauguration daughter (sometimes) law

All interviewees should ask for this

best last line ever

"Dad, when I'm an adult I'm gonna come back to this Nintendo store and buy everything they have"

"Not fast. Not furious." — older man's t-shirt at Mission Bay Philz

The camera was better than humans at a narrow range of capabilities. AI will soon be better than humans at most/all capabilities (including leveraging AI). I hope the way previous innovations played out is significantly predictive, but it's not clear to me that it will be.