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Wanna be starting something? Tech advise for the entrepreneur.

So you're smart. You've got an idea and you want to change the world (or at least your world my making some cashish). These days, it takes more than an idea to make it happen - especially when you are competing with the Kardashians and the Republican presidential candidates (and their inverted sense of elegance and poise) for air-time.

If you are wanna be starting something but aren't sure where to start, you might find the following helpful.

eulogy for a poor memory

it's not just the morning,or the way my dog looks at me when she knowsit's early for it to already be too late.this might be the real article. the line on the horizon where substance vanishesunderneath a cold grey ground of aches and pains.my favorite blanketis the quilt my mom made when i was 5.it's yellow and has joseph's many colored stars on it.the kind that make you dream.i'm aware that i've lost.and the speck of the infitesimallittle dot of a person

you wreck me

you wreck me in this devastating wholesome way that tells stories and smiles bedside squeezing my hand just as the color drains away. going on about fireflies and owls. deer and budweiser. all with the same sweet breath. (the one i would steal.) you are one voice talking me down and then walking away. again and again and again. fatima your city burns. when will your memory fade?

Creation Myths

We write our own stories. We make shit up, and then we listen to ourselves say it out loud. We create ourselves over and over again this way. We decorate our houses like hermit crabs, we wear certain clothes, and we use them like props in the play about that time we spent here, once.

That we believe these plays are true makes them confusing, and that we believe they are important makes them holy.

Talking Story

I have been doing some thinking about what it means to have a culture that is self aware and how that would distill down to the level of individual values and relationships between people.  I've been specifically thinking about verbal or physical communication between individuals.  
 

Chasing the Dragon: or how I'm curing my Lyme Disease

We are all habitat.  Microscopic condos for animals old as dirt.  We breath and eat at their mercy.I first found out I had Lyme Disease in 2003, about 3 years after I initially became infected.  In order to find it, I had to reassemble my own history.  I haven't trusted my memory since.

Holy Wars

The wars we wage against ourselves are probably the only wars that are truly holy - truly blessed. Maybe because they are the only ones in which winning is even possible. It feels like I am probably in the middle of one such war, or maybe just a particularly nasty battle. I trust that I am destined to win eventually. I feel blessed on days when I understand that there is no other outcome possible. It can be hard keeping the faith sometimes.

Can Technology throw a party and save the Universe?

I went down to the city of New Orleans about a month ago in a quest to continue to explore how what I do for a living can make a difference for the world. Don't worry, it wasn't all so serious.

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