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As Jay said, Look at God.…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *KT* The Warm-Up: “From the King beating to the murder nearly three years ago of George Floyd, American society has often focused on the race of the officers — so often White — as a factor in their deplorable acts of violence. But the narrative ‘White cop kills unarmed Black man’ should never have been the sole lens through which we attempted to understand police abuse and misconduct. It’s time to move to a more nuanced discussion of the way police violence endangers Black lives.” ~Van Jones, Opinion: The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism The Core: “Zero mi ah come from | But look pon me now | Look pon me now | Ah nuttin mi ah come from | But look pon me now…” ~Popcaan ft. Chronic Law, St. Thomas Native “Stop assuming that solitude has to be lonely, and start looking at it as an opportunity to understand who you are when there’s no one left to perform for.” ~Michell C Clark “Ideas move in a progression: unthinkable -> radical -> acceptable -> sensible -> popular -> policy.” ~Rutger Bregman and Elizabeth Manton, Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There “For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” ~Niccolo Machiavelli “Relationships are healthier when the goal is to experience life together & not to try to make the person into who you want them to be or to make them do what you want them to do.” ~@livewithnoregrt “The most undervalued skill is the ability to zoom out and see the big picture of any personal, professional, or social situation. The minor details that you get obsessively emotional over mean much less than you think.” ~Dan Koe “Collecting information is easy. Organizing information is easy. But if you never go beyond these two things, you’re just hoarding. You’ve got to distill the information and then express them back out into the world.” ~Tiago Forte “How do we pick up on signal that can neither be heard nor defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it.” ~Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being “In the process of revaluing unprofitable software cos, investors may have lost sight of the fact that digital transformation is only in its infancy. Cos that focus on execution and becoming highly profitable can then spend time reminded investors of the big opportunity.” ~Orlando Bravo “Complex systems are hard to predict. There might be a variable you’re not tracking that has never flipped from zero to one. When it does flip from zero to one, your models are out the window because this other thing’s different this time.” ~Bill Gurley on The Tim Ferriss Show (#651) “People often make the case for leisure by highlighting the benefits. Play promotes learning. Relaxing boosts well-being. We don’t need a justification for leisure. It doesn’t have to be productive to be worthwhile. Enjoying an activity is reason enough to spend your time on it.” ~Adam Grant “As artists, it is our job to draw down this information, transmute it, and share it. We are all translators for messages the universe is broadcasting. The best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antennae to draw in the energy resonating at a particular moment.” ~Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being “Stay real to the family | Money no change we | Money can’t change my style (Yeah) | Before me sell out me friend them | Me rather stay hungry | Money Popcaan love pile, yeah (Weh) Great is He | Great is He that trust the Most High | Them watch me a win, them shame | Them can’t ever quench my flame, mhmm” ~Popcaan, Great Is He Last Set: “I, Too” by Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America. Food For Thought: “When it comes to police violence, race does matter — but possibly not the way you think. At the end of the day, it is the race of the victim who is brutalized — not the race of the violent cop — that is most relevant in determining whether racial bias is a factor in police violence. It’s hard to imagine five cops of any color beating a White person to death under similar circumstances. And it is almost impossible to imagine five Black cops giving a White arrestee the kind of beat-down that Nichols allegedly received.” ~Van Jones, Opinion: The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism
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