I Believe… [Not My Tempo]
...that all romance is an experiment and no true experiment is without its failures. Roll the dice, set some parameters, and see the results. The only scientist who gives up is a poser.
...that if your best response to words and ideas you find reprehensible is actual, real world, violence, you’ve lost the argument and can’t scream down or assassinate enough to squelch the ideas you hate.
...that persuasion is slow, deliberate, full of footnotes and compromise. Outrage is fast, fiery, and viral. Outrage works like napalm—it clears ground quickly but leaves nothing fertile behind.
...that the fact that my staff sees JK Simmons’s performance in “Whiplash” as a ‘comically evil version of me’ says a lot about my approach to management.
...that sometimes it takes eight years of podcasting weekly to build a life-long friendship.
