Love where I live. The 93109 is the place.
The neighborhood
Anthony Bourdain
So wise.
“Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.”
—Anthony Bourdain
Hipstamatic
Still a favorite photo app even though it just crashed when I tried to grab the specs for these pics. Makes ordinary look lovely.
Stock photography misses
Sometimes stock photos are obvious and disappointing. Not everyone will notice or care but I can’t help it. Don’t let this generic image happen to your marketing materials.
Jobs
What is wrong with wanting to have a job? I have been an independent business person since before I could work legally. Delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, babysitting little kids and mucking horse stalls. 45 years later it’s business advising, marketing, digital strategy – and implementing all the things. I’m a one person agency again and I’m not happy about it.
I hung that up formally in 2022 for the promise of a role I wanted in a (seemingly) growing company only to find out it was in total bullshit. How could I have been so naive after decades of work? Rhetorical. There’s no good answer.
So, no job. But there’s work. Work to find work. Work to keep a little inbound cash flow from drying up. Work to describe the work. Then doing all the fucking shit.
Not pleased but yeah, I’m grateful. But. What a fucked up state of affairs.
Shoulda been a software engineer.