Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you're legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It's enforced meditation and this is good.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.