september 9 etc
You ever wake up with a song in your head? Not like, oh, there was a song playing when I got up and I heard it and I started thinking about it. Something purer than that. Something closer to, uh, I think my subconscious was having a party while I was asleep and had the choons turned up a bit too high and now I can't focus my eyes but I can hear and feel the reverberations of a specific song echoing throughout my body. It's not a bad thing, or a bad song, but it wasn't expected and as such it must be navigated and maybe even negotiated.
I've never been good at sleeping. My mind is an unruly beast that buzzes and squawks and squeals and honks at all hours but particularly after midnight. That's when I do (and have done) a lot of writing, a lot of reading, and a lot of rabbit hole-ing. It's always been this way, by which I mean that I have always been this way, by which I mean that when I make an effort to change this โโ my partner and I are trying to go to bed earlier โโ I secretly worry it's going to change me into something I won't recognize.
The thoughts include but are not limited to:
What am I losing by sleeping more?
What things won't I read or learn if I sleep more?
What online friendships won't be nurtured if I sleep more?
If you are also a person who struggles with change and hesitates to (try to) sleep more for fear that doing so will affect your you-ness adversely, consider that even though you will do less, it stands to reason that you will do things better. At least that's what I am telling myself.
On y va!
๐ต๐๏ธ The song in question was this banger by Garbage from back in the day. (Spotify)
๐ค๐ "In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use โโ the largest since the survey began in November of 2023," writes Joe Wilkins. Later in the same article, Wilkins adds that this represents "a particularly distressing sign for tech investors and CEOs, whose unfettered spending on AI is now literally holding up the US economy." (Futurism)
๐ค๐ฐ For a while there, it seemed like every investor wanted to burn billions on AI everything, but "venture funding in August fell to the lowest monthly amount since 2017" according to Crunchbase. Summer lull, or harbinger? (Crunchbase)
๐ฑ๐ฑ "Rich idiots โโ not all rich people, just the wasteful, lazy, ignorant, deeply confused idiot rich โโ donโt understand how work can be valuable in and of itself," writes Heather Havrilesky. "Real people work very hard at what they love, in spite of their exhaustion, in spite of their aches and pains, in spite of their fears." I mentioned (and linked out to) Havrilesky's Ask Polly in August because her writing seems to find me right when I need it. Today is no exception. (Ask Polly)
๐ด๐งโโ๏ธ The most desirable quality in a romantic partner might surprise you. (The Onion)
๐๐ Entries are open for the 30th Annual Webby Awards, something I would like to be a judge for someday and yes this is me trying to speak it into existence. (Webby Awards)
๐ต๐๏ธ You've been good, so here's my favourite Garbage song as a treat. (Spotify)
๐ฎ๐ฎ While tooling around on itch.io yesterday I came upon Six Cats Under, a delightful point-and-click game by Team Bean Loop. (itch.io)
๐ฒ gonna
๐ผ go
๐ฑ touch
๐ณ grass
๐ท now
Be good to yourself.
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