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Current Location: Milwaukee, WI
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Listening: everybody else by Montaigne
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Quick Notes
New Work:
This week’s Let’s Know Things is about AI CapEx
Yesterday’s Brain Lenses essay was on the General Charisma Inventory & the pod was about Money Dysmorphia
Not the Final Me
Something that helps me cope with periods of malaise, pain, or discomfort is reminding myself that the me I am today is not the final me.
This is just a version of myself, iterated from previous versions of myself, and every aspect of my being—my life, my career, my relationships, all of it—are prone to revision. That’s how I got to where I am now, and that will continue to happen in the future.
Even as we work toward goals that would change a whole lot about our lives, we tend to imagine ourselves enjoying the fruits of those investments and labors as the same people we are, today.
We recall moments from our past, gobsmacked by the choices we made and opportunities we missed, failing to remember that we were different people then, and the things we did (or didn’t do) probably made a lot more sense in the moment, to that earlier iteration.
I find reminding myself of this reality helpful because it suggests that at some point, inevitably, my life will be different from how it is today. I will be different.
My current context shouldn’t feel confining, then, because the me of right now is just a blip on that larger chronological continuum, for better and for worse.
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What Else
Well, after last week’s extreme temperatures (which persist, though we’re no longer popping into the 100-degrees-F range, and instead are lingering just shy of 90) we received an historically large deluge of rain. That rain flooded local waterways (surpassing a previous high-water-mark of about 10.5 feet and getting up closer 11.2 on the river that wends along the border of my neighborhood), and that led to severe flooding all over Milwaukee.
I’m fortunate to live in a relatively high-elevation area, not a flood zone, but being in the aptly-named Riverwest neighborhood, pretty much every street surrounding mine was flooded with at least a few inches of water, and some were much worse (you can google around for photos—people were having to climb up onto their cars and wait for rescue boats…on side streets and highways).
It’s still hot and humid, so the conditions for more storms are there, but hopefully that’s the worst we’ll see for a while, as it was a pretty brutal storm/flood-combo, and a lot of people hereabouts are still trying to figure out how to get all the water out of their basements and how they’re going to replace their waterlogged vehicles.
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