You have more influence over the future than you think
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The future is invented by people no smarter than you or me.
My friend Brinlee told me I should read Brian Eno’s diary titled A Year with Swollen Appendices (“appendices” as in the extra section at the end of a book, not the thing that bursts). Brian Eno is a pretty important guy. He invented ambient music, made the Windows 95 startup sound (ironically on a Mac), and mentored Fred Again. Eno’s diary has a magnetic charm to it. It’s great getting to read the internal chain of thought of an objectively creative person. I do recommend it. After I started reading it, I told my friend Aadil about it because I thought he might like it too. I went deeper and…
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