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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 29, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
David Himmel
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 29, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
David Himmel

The sign of a good relationship is a sore, slightly bruised pubic bone. (Heh, heh… bone…)

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Jul 4, 2025
David Himmel

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 27, 2025
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 27, 2025

Acknowledging when you fuck up is as important as acknowledging when someone else fucks up. Difference is, you should be harder on yourself than you are on them.

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I Believe... [GenX Kids Were Monsters]
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I Believe... [GenX Kids Were Monsters]

...that, if you’re honest with yourself, you know that you and your prepubescent friends would’ve beat E.T. with rebar and hammers, would’ve absolutely ostracized Edward Scissorhands, and would’ve taken Rick Moranis’s shrunken kids and put them in a mason jar with a firecracker.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 15, 2020
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 15, 2020

Stop being so hard on yourself and everyone else. Just be social. Just be cool. Stop expecting so much from everything but have the ambition to make it all better. Then follow through.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 30, 2019
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 30, 2019

Sesame Street needs a Hasidic Jew character. Could be a Muppet, could be a human. Yes, there’s Oscar the Grouch and Julia the Autistic, but to truly represent an individual who complains and struggles with a break from routine, a Hasidic Jew is the best you’ll get.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 17, 2019
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 17, 2019

• Forgiveness is not valued enough. And too often, it’s not even attempted. And that’s why we’re doomed.

• I feel a crushing amount of guilt and regret for thinking that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an attractive person. I feel the same way about Ivanka Trump.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall — Week of May 20, 2018
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Notes from the Post-it Wall — Week of May 20, 2018

My wife told me that while changing our son’s diaper yesterday, he reached down, grabbed his little nut sack and yanked on it. “He’s your son,” she said to me. “He’s already sitting in gum.” If you understand what she’s talking about then you know how proud my son has made me.

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