Montez

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A few of my product principles

* build and be bridges
* push more intimate work
* say it plain
Anything short of saving the world is failure. Period.
More recorded credits good for us. The money to match even better.
Early 2000s Atlanta is so visually patriotic

Atlanta one of the most patriotic cities I know
I got emotional in Ralph yesterday
Woke up off Tubman Ave. What a time
Showed I can flip a quarter. Many times over

Ready for more
Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance
Album · 1980

On a short list to start the day with



https://nook.social/content/83053716-c4e1-4958-87a0-5c39bc8c31a0
Crib Japandi. Haven’t been to Tokyo and Copenhagen yet
I don’t think people know what resilience looks like

Performed resilience works in a time where the entertainment loop is shortening

It’s entertainment nonetheless
To Mars. To deep sea. Back to Earth. Back to home.
I’ve had a very blessed life so far.

Feels like an anomaly in so many ways.
It doesn’t take much to know when someone is talking to you in web bullets

Not much X time, Tok time, etc. It’s a limited amount of stuff making it above the fold.

Sad that it gets redistributed into our institutions too. There’s just some stuff that doesn’t do well online
Thinking about cancelling my streaming subscription and buying albums direct

Fear it may make me even more off the path of the popular wave

May be more me tho
It’d be fun to read a short story on how the United States of Africa could come to be.

Surprised Nnedi Okorafor hasn’t written it

Image: The Second Pan-African Congress, Palais Mondial, Brussels, September 1921.
Tekkonkinkreet
2006 · Movie · ★★★★☆

I like this as a base for another story yet to be told and closer to my home.



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For video to shift its balance from entertainment and more towards education, there has to be more active participation from the viewer

Blue Clues but the video doesn’t continue unless you actually respond. It’s why videos work well if you’re already in an institution
I worry about the state of high quality and novel information sharing

Luckily, I have stamina to find blogs, research papers, newsletters, etc

The video format quickly becomes entertainment to me so I’d rather read for 20 minutes than watch for 20. Video essays are trying but…
Profession: soapbox preacherman
Location: anywhere USA
Twin flames but it’s just me at sunrise and sunset
If you take all the strong pens and put em in a pen, who we depending on?
Tech guys gotta understand being cool isn’t systematic