Goodbye 2025
If you are reading this, you have officially made it through the entirety of 2025.
Good going, you. You are a badass.
Until we talk again, I remain,
Your pal,
Jamie
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Big scam on campus
This week’s weird thought. Take a look at this chart. Especially all those red balls. The NFL and NBA are worth billions and billions of dollars. So how did they talk higher education in America into footing the bill (including staffing, equipment, stadium space, etc.) to run what are
My brain vs. the phantom Hans Zimmer
This week’s weird idea I distinctly remember watching famed film composer Hans Zimmer live on the Oscars, flushed with excitement, clutching his new statue onstage. It wasn’t his first Oscar, but his expression told you that the thrill doesn’t fade. He looked down the little gold dude,
The internet is not built for comfort
This week’s weird idea Any ad, for any product or any service, on any screen or any app, is designed to to do one universal thing: make us unhappy. We can’t be sold things (eyeliner, accounting software, political parties) if we're in a state of satisfaction.
Hey, AI! leave my em dash alone
But first: I ❤️ Minneapolis I want this newsletter to be a place of rest, renewal, and hopefully a call to optimistic creation. So I try not to lean into news & politics. But as I write this, some of our fellow citizens are out braving Arctic conditions, and so very