RIP Fred Brooks, author of THE MYTHICAL MAN-MONTH, a charming book whose core insight is one of the most important facts about #managing groups of people.

(Corollary, though: large groups of people can add activation energy to a project in its earliest stages -- they just can't precision or clarity when needed later on.)

i showed my 12yr-old son a photo of elizabeth holmes and asked for his impressions of her. who she looked like.

'a doll,' he said. 'or no one.'

^^^^^ this part really happened
vvvvv this part didn't

he then shouted something about RUTHKANDA FOREVER and fucked off into the mythic borderlands

ugh i hate hashtags but:

proud -- all of a sudden! -- of something i wrote (sort-of-)about #kosmische #music a year and a half ago,

invoking #psychedelia #u2 #DAngelo #wilco #berlinschool (plus also bernard xolotl who i won't hashtag no, i mean why bother?),

which is maybe to say it's about #macromind #innerspace #eroticism,

which is *actually* to say i wish you'd read it and i hope you'll like it, the rest is yours:

https://waxbanks.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/kosmische/

quoting oneself with the truly astonishing text string 'as i quipped (on Twitter)...'

surely there is *some* vantage from which our species appears to deserve to survive

alas inaccessible to me this morning

gonna stay off the 'social' media today.