Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 13, 2025
• The reward is always greater when it’s celebrated in a puddle of your blood, sweat, and tears.
• If you want a happy home, get a dog. If you want sandy bits of shit throughout that home, get a cat, too.
• I don’t know a country in all of human history that loathes its citizens more than the United States. We’ve never had an out-and-out murderous offense put against us, but some of the American Power Class—many of late—have encouraged and even allowed violence against the public. What I think the Power Class has done since the inception of the U.S. is to play the long game of destroying us slowly with a million cuts for the benefit of their base-level greedy instinct. Our healthcare system is a joke—and laughter is not a medicine insurance will cover. Companies continue choosing profits over people despite their family-focused culture slogans (read as: lies). Politicians barely perform and rarely deliver, but get real rich doing it. Some things have progressed for the greater good while others have regressed. And it seems that as our culture continues to fracture into pieces like so many shards of broken glass, Death’s long shadow is getting closer. I’m left wondering, when it all falls down, when we succumb to our most lizard-brain urges, when the last drop of American Exceptionalism has ben wrung out of the polio-infested washcloth, who will be left standing to bask in the remains? And who will be there to say, “I told you so?”
• There is no fear greater than a dog about to get a nail trim. And no joy more rapturous than that same dog after the nail trim.
• Motivation is not something to be hunted by sitting and waiting. Catching it requires, well, motivation. And therein lies the greatest human challenge.
• The problem is, it’s hard to say “No” to a bad idea when it’s marketed the right way.
