Just a little (link) love: TI edition
October 25, 2018
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Misty Copeland…“the first African American female principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre’s 75-year history in 2015.”
Xin’s trip to Taiwan and Japan.
How to Write About a Vanishing World. I have to admit that knowing this is happening has got me quite down. We’re destroying our planet, right now, for us and for our kids already born. How has dystopian science fiction NOT prepared us to stop it??
Tanja is reading my mind pretty much always: Climate change. How are you preparing for climate change in the long run?
Comments are off on this post for reasons I can totally understand but I wanted to comment here – Debt is exhausting! Apparently some people think mortgage debt is “good” (probably because of tax deductions?), I personally find it exhausting and want it GONE.
Parents, are you behind the camera or in the picture? I always forget to try and take pictures with the kids, so generally I have pictures of them playing but PiC has always from Day One made it a point to take pictures of him and JB together. Those two goofballs. I love that succession of pictures.
In 10 years of hiring, I’ve never had a candidate who declared they were the best person for the job even approach the top 50% of candidates. It’s never been used by any of my top candidates who went on to be superstars in their areas.
T.I. feud
I don’t typically keep up with most rap feuds, though they can produce some amazing music and this is no exception, but a friend passed on the link with a note: TI had a feud with Shawty Lo so he filmed this video in Shawty Lo’s hood. I especially appreciate this in light of this money related story I just read about TI buying up homes in his old neighborhood that’s rapidly gentrifying and creating affordable housing. That’s a multi-millionaire I can tip my hat to.
Climate change resiliency is tough to think about because it relies on so many moving parts. Just limiting yourself to the US, many of the biggest metro regions are coastal and low-lying. If those cities fail to develop sufficient infrastructure to handle rising sea levels, that doesn’t just affect that region but will send shocks across our entire economy. That’s not to mention there will be mass migrations of people to areas that are deemed most habitable (which again will depend as much on policy response as on climate in that region) so even if you “choose right” there is likely to be significant political turmoil in your future. Possibly the best thing to do is to rent instead of own to maximize location flexibility, but that becomes a suboptimal choice if the only habitable areas are expensive cities that have the money to prepare (then you’ll just be facing even higher rents). Or you can go the opposite route and hunker down on a homestead, hope you picked the right spot, and ignore the outside world, but that is high risk and seems like a rough way to go too. /rant
YES exactly all that. It’s so damn complicated.
Thank you for the shoutout! Things have been a little hectic, so I haven’t had as much time to keep up with my other trip-related posts that I have ideas for.
I’d definitely be the type of parent who is always behind the camera and would never be the one to remember to make sure of being in at least some of the photos until the day was over, unless someone else reminds me.
You’re welcome!
I am that parent too but I am working on changing that.