Welcome to the Timestamp Newsletter! The single aim of these short posts is to help the reader use their time wisely with suggestions on media, ideas, and items to spur forward action.
With that, LET’S ROLL.
- Is This It? – a wonderful article detailing all the things we chase and the fleeting happiness that keeps us on the hedonic treadmill. Personal stories from very professionally accomplished people who weren’t satisfied with their “wins.”
- Is This It? A wonderful album by The Strokes. ( Side note: this album is more than old enough to go to a bar and order a drink…. And now I want to vomit.)
- To Think About: Nearly every invention and technology has come about to do ONE Thing. Move FASTER. The car is faster than the horse and buggy. The Microwave is faster than the oven. Every piece of software in meant to improve speed, efficiency, and memory consumption. Artificial Intelligence is designed to make smart decisions using insane amounts of data in a flash. If humans didn’t recognize the importance of time, we wouldn’t spend so much of it, trying to do more in less of it.
- Where is the best place to be during a tornado?? Apparently the Meijer Bathroom. The next time you find yourself in a grocery store, check out the signs near the bathrooms. Yes, the place where the general public do their absolute WORST work, is the safest place to be when the sky starts spinning. As that F4 barrels down, you know you want to be breathing in toxic air in a tight room with floors covered in urine, dirty paper towels and TP. There’s got to be a better place right?? RIGHT???!!!!
- In this Tweet from the Governor of the 5th largest economy in the World, we get more than an indication of where we are as a society. Our country is so riddled with metabolic diseases from our lifestyles that we require( debatable) an exogenous form of a hormone our bodies make naturally to regulate our blood sugar levels. And this man is “excited” about that opportunity to manufacture insulin rather than incentivizing his population to live better ( and eliminate the disease) in the State with the best weather and landscape of arguably any place on the planet. But that’s not all…. If that doesn’t make you a little sick.. Don’t worry! Newsom is also stoked about pumping out Naloxone in his State! ( Naloxone is the drug that helps reverse opioid overdoses, and is also known as Narcan). Yes, the population at large sadly needs this drug to be readily available. It’s not just prescription opiates that have decimated our brothers and sisters, but now worse than that ( and even street heroine), we have fentanyl – much of which crosses the border IN to California. Instead of choosing to attack addiction and control what comes across his borders, he’s excited about the business opportunity to drug up the population. He knows it will be a money maker with his people being so sick. Don’t be surprised if he proudly announces that California will be manufacturing human waste bags to handle all the poop scattered across his cities… clearly a business opportunity to not pass up.
- And Finally…“Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong, a man’s life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted. The individual attains significance as a free spirit only by surrounding himself with these limitations and by determining for himself what his duty is.” – The I Ching
Andrew L Hamilton 