This past Summer, when I wasn't feeling well and was also wondering if I was cut out to be a lawyer, I did some #values work with a terrific coach John Harvey to help in assessing potential career/life options. Ever grateful to John and to @motherhoodmag for introducing us.
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I just looked back at the last email I sent when we left off our #values work.
I'd come up with the following 5 core values (and definitions of what those mean) for me:
1. Family = Being a good father, son, brother, partner, uncle. Always being there for family.
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2. Relationships = Connecting to others and connecting others to build things
3. Creativity = Feeding the part of me that likes to create and build, write and speak
A fee completely unsolicited Sunday Evening thoughts on #NFTs:
NFTs encompass a ridiculously broad and varied range of “digital stuff”
This ranges from art and collectibles to in video game assets to mechanisms of tracking title and ownership of real world assets.
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Art/collectibles are a large asset class & high profile (crazy high valuation) sales of art like Beeple’s & cultural/historical markers like Jack Dorsey’s first Tweet got attention. But the value of art in all forms is … hard to comprehend.
To me, the biggest reason that folks are excited about NFTs is because they provide a viable mechanism to monetize digital assets (which have always been very hard to monetize) AND there is A LOT of digital stuff out there and it’s only growing by the day.
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Our power constellation of Imagination, Empathy, Connection; all revolve around it. It is the most human and most essential tool for innovation and for social change.
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The ability and power to create and believe in mass fictions - money, geographical boundaries, religions - and then use them to organize & in turn to shape & change our reality is what differentiates humans from other animals. Brains 🧠 manifest.
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1. I had heard from some others it was so-so or just that “it was long” so my expectations weren’t high; going to a 5:30 show was perfect. I actually thought this Matt Reeves directed version was almost right up there with The Dark Knight Trilogy
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2. Batman is supposed to be dark, brooding and violent, and this film did that really well.
The Batman also portrayed Gotham in a just as corrupt and seamy as other movies but in a more realistic and less cartoonish way than prior Batman movies.
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The theme of distrust of government and corruption and information being weaponized was palpably connected to our current world. This all made the Batman movie feel more true to life and that made it even scarier and more unsettling.
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And so many of our modern societal problems & issues stem from disconnection.
This thread is about both connections b/w socio-cultural issues (connecting the dots) & also about connections between people. Those 2 things are connected.
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What we have here is human disconnectedness caused - in part - or at least greatly contributed to - by technological (over)connectedness. Another big contributing factor, I believe, is our traditional gender norms around #masculinity.
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Think about the phenomenon of employer “ghosting” during an interview process when they aren’t giving a candidate the job. I’ve learned it is quite common these days to not let that person know. You just stop communicating.
No one has lost their livelihood or been denied a livelihood due to an unruly Internet mob.
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Can folks sometimes rush to judgment without having all the facts? Sure.
But what is usually labeled #cancelculture is just the hard fact of accountability in a society. Of their being repercussions for bad acts, and yes, for bad speech.
It’s a good thing.
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Back to being open to opposing viewpoints and the theory that the best response to speech we disagree with being counter-speech, more speech, robust debate.
I used to believe that was always the case. I believed it when I graduated from Law School.
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