What did Barack Obama, who turns fifty-seven today, tell his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, after Donald Trump’s election? “Your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding.” Read David Remnick’s 2016 Profile of the former President: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency

Too tired to be fun to be around, too overcaffeinated to sleep when given a chance

I really want to go to Azores – 1000 miles without land in any direction.

Every time I leave home at 6am I hope for that ocean smell but it usually just smells like diesel exhaust

Tim O’Reilly on why the future doesn’t have to suck

i’m all about the future that doesn’t have to suck, and am looking forward to listening to it, when I sort my headphones situation out (my old job got me nice noise-canceling cans, but I had to return them when I left).

It’s interesting that he “believes the free market is now an algorithm that ignores the interests of all stakeholders save for an elite sliver of giant equity owners.” That is exactly how I felt like lately.

Also, fake O’Reilly book covers are hilarious, how did I miss them?

a persian doctor who told me frightening things and invited to participate in ~~insurance fraud~~ ~~questionable~~ grayzone billing practices, but there was a Slovak technician there who looked uncannily like Good Soldier Švejk and with whom I had a surprisingly nice conversation about politics and sociology. He was older and more pessimistic about the future of liberal democracy than I, but at this point so is almost everyone.

The question is, do I want to get a free MRI from some shady practice, or pay hundreds of dollars for it, or not get it at all…

It’s too bad that hardly anyone I can tell about Good Soldier Švejk will have any idea what I’m talking about.

Why We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus

A thing learned this weekend (that must keep in mind): not everything is ought be shared. In fact, the less, the better. Most things are better when kept inside.