Finding meaning in the mundane

Everyone here has done this, of course. But it hasn’t yet been part of you graduates’ actual life routine, day after week after month after year.

But it will be. And many more dreary, annoying, seemingly meaningless routines besides. But that is not the point. The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in.

slip:4a799.

It occurs to me that I’ve no idea who gave the commencement address at my graduation. After a bit of digging…

Robert W. Galvin, chairman of Motorola, delivered the main address yesterday to the 1,150 graduates at the 125th commencement of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.

Mr. Galvin received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree.

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The mundane

Everyone here has done this, of course. But it hasn’t yet been part of you graduates’ actual life routine, day after week after month after year.

But it will be. And many more dreary, annoying, seemingly meaningless routines besides. But that is not the point. The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in.

slip:4a799.

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌: 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝑻𝑺

Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?

William James and David Foster Wallace interrogate the "sneer trap" of modern irony. And from Marvin Gaye’s protests to BTS’s solidarity, let's consider how "New Sincerity" and "Guerilla Texts" can unsettle the status quo and physically alter the world.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/guerilla-texts-bts-gaye/

#podcast #books #bts #springday #marvingaye #davidfosterwallace #newsincerity

Consider The Sister

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/consider-the-sister

Pages 10–12 of the Reader contain the text’s most frequently quoted and most disturbing passage: an attempt to describe, from the inside, what The Bad Thing (depression) is.
#literature #reading #books #davidfosterwallace

https://paulopinto.xyz/notes/2026/05/2026-05-15-the-david-foster-wallace-reader/

Pages 10–12 of the Reader contain the text’s most frequently quoted and most disturbing passage: an attempt to describe, from the inside, what The Bad Thing (depression) is.
#literature #reading #books #davidfosterwallace

https://paulopinto.xyz/notes/2026/05/2026-05-15-the-david-foster-wallace-reader/

#InfiniteJest: A Postmodern Saga of Damnation and Salvation (1996) #DavidFosterWallace

via @wallabag

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/the-alchemists-retort/376533/