i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

could this be a job for Hooks?

not only was this predictable from the moment he took office, it should have been expected. and yet a constellation of “serious” and “savvy” observers insisted that we were living through a realignment

There’s just so much to do

I look around and see so many things to TRY

tools to build, premises to test, comparisons to run between local inference and commercial services…

the sense of opportunity and purpose is singular and intoxicating. This has never happened in my life

I loved that shit

that was better than drugs to me as a kid