Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 9, 2025
• I recently tried watching Avatar: The Way of Water. Couldn’t get more than thirty minutes in. Sure, it’s a beautiful film, but the story is a bore. I guess this is why I can date ugly girls as long as they have a good personality. Story matters.
• Kids who had race car beds probably grew up to work in finance with an inflated ego, a coke habit, and wildly premature ejaculation issues. But for that moment in third grade, they were gods.
• I appreciate good cyber security. But the multi-authentication with my phone for my computer and my computer to my phone and face ID and back again multiple times a day is a bit much. Too much of a good thing makes it a bad thing.
• No one likes being disappointed. If they did, they wouldn’t feel disappointed.
• The real bravery is facing the worst parts of yourself and forcing them to change.
• People from our past don’t live rent free in our heads. They’re squatting with our permission. And what’s so wrong with that anyway? These ex-friends or ex-lovers that “live rent free” are just memories. They’re part of what made us who we are today and will likely, in at least small ways, inform who we are tomorrow. We only assign this “rent free” thing to the bad people we remember and talk about. No one has ever accused me of letting my dead grandfathers live rent free in my head. But they’ve done it with that old girlfriend I sometimes reference in stories—just as I do with my dead grandfathers. We should remember the ones who have more negative feelings assigned to them because we can learn from those relationships. Sunshine of the spotless mind only leads us to make the same mistakes.
