“know one” he says 🙄

The classic refrain is: constraint is the mother of creativity. Similarly, friction is the father of discovery.

It feels paradoxical when we're conditioned to obsess over efficiency. But the only perfect efficiency is doing nothing.

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what it's built for.

It's also the coolest and most fun part of the job, why would you want to cut it out!?

tbc this was the outcome of the deal

Just want to say that given Dems were continuing to get paid and sending fundraising emails and texts throughout all of this, I do find it a little hard to believe that they couldn’t have done more to help ensure people were fed and housed without completely caving. Even the messaging was bad here