An Everyday Mercy
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The significance of a single anti-mimetic act
Dog tied to table at coffee shop. (DALL-E re-creation of a real event.) 0:00 -17:29 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In the mid-2000’s I was living in Las Vegas and struggling to get a fledgling young company off the ground. I had recently met the former CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh. We had spent a lot of time hanging out in the previous weeks. (Our blown-up business deal was still a ways off.) My life had become chaotic, an unhealthy blur of work and play in which the two were sometimes indistinguishable. Lots of poker-playing, both in casinos and out; both…
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