Currently reading: Time Surfing by Paul Loomans 📚
Finished reading: Year One by Nora Roberts 📚. First quarter of the book was interesting. Then it got silly, then just boring. Why is this author popular?
I’m obsessed with watching The Shield which I’ve never seen before. It holds up really well for a show made over 20 years ago.
I bought my upgrade to Curio 31. I’d been using version 22. It’s fun software and I hope I can find ways to use it more.
Crucial Track for April 25, 2025
"Seen Better Days" by Voyager
Voyager have released a new song reflecting on Danny’s ongoing battle with cancer.
Crucial Track for April 19, 2025
"Arnold" by Luke Million
This came up while I rode me bike today. It was hilarious and catchy.
Always nice to see a new Homestar Runner video, and this one has a catchy tune.
Crucial Track for April 18, 2025
"1/1" by Brian Eno
Ambient music by the OG AirPlaying through the house.
Crucial Track for April 17, 2025
"Wavy (feat. The Soul Surfers)" by Janko Nilovic
I’ve been going through a jazz-inspired phase. Finding music styles that I’ve never listened to before.
Trying to get off the beaten path.
I’ve never been more thankful to not be a citizen of the United States of America than right now.
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Trump's Ego Drives Him to "Win"
This NYTimes article by Jamelle Bouie, The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing does a great job of surmising who Trump is: a mad President who has a compulsion to “win”, at least as far as he understands winning to mean.
This is a gift link, so you will be able to read the whole thing, but some excellent quotes include:
For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.
The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance.
This simple fact of the president’s psychology does more to explain his antipathy to international trade and enthusiasm for tariffs and other trade barriers than any theorizing about his intentions or overall vision. It certainly is not as if he has a considered view of the global economy. It is not even clear that Trump knows what a tariff is.
Trump’s desire to dominate others is the driving psychological force of his administration.
The sooner we are rid of this monstrous person%2C the better the entire world will be.
But it’s going to take a long time to reverse the damage; if it even can be. I just hope this isn’t the direction of new world orders.
Toying with Tariffs
In a normal world I’d say there would be no way the US president would manipulate global markets for their own gain. But this is no normal world. This is greed and self-interest above all else.
Tapestry or Reeder? I can’t decide!