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Happily married Michigander with 2 sons and an old dog.

80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/

"Collaboration" is bullshit.

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Westenberg.
I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.
Recently learned that 50% of men surveyed believe they could land a commercial aircraft in an emergency, and knowing this has helped me understand a lot of the emails I get at work.

What a game.

What a game!

#nfl #lions

I’m really over this whole working for a living thing.
I think there should be a reality show called Alpha Island, where they take all the men who call themselves Alphas, and put them on an island, and then leave them there.

Borders should only be relevant to governments, not individuals. As in, they should exist only to define the jurisdictional boundary of a particular governing body, nothing more. No person should ever be denied freedom of movement across a national border.

All cities have borders too, but you don't need to get the city's permission before moving to/from one. Should be the same for countries. Passports are bullshit.

LOL... IOW: Trump "informed" Putin of top secrets and is a "useful" idiot.

‪MSNBC‬:

BREAKING: #Putin says call with #Trump was "informative and useful." NBC News' Keir Simmons has the latest

Congratulations to Percival Everett on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for his novel, James!

"Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of Jim, Huck's enslaved companion on the raft ride."

#PulitizerPrize #Fiction #PercivalEverett #Books #bookstodon

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5381150/pulitzer-prizes-2025