Education data management catalyst. Father to @zeke_jg. Husband to @brookerific. Skarner one-trick. DIYer. Lawful/Neutral Objectivist Stoic. He/Him.
Pacific Grove, CA
Joined May 2014
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"Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives... Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life... make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself."
"...thousands of state-controlled North Korean information technology workers are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to secure remote jobs at Western companies while concealing their identities and locations."
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'The old bargain was straightforward. Effort produced progress. If the first rung is disappearing, young people will naturally question the ladder... Gen Z is not rejecting work; it is rejecting the idea that any work is automatically worth doing."
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but share your truth. Whether you’re a teacher, an artist, a lover, a philanthropist, a healer, an innovator of ANY kind… share what makes your soul smile. Share what happened to you. Tell your story. No one ever became legendary by playing small. No one benefits from you hiding your truth except those who are afraid of exposure. Let the gaslighting be the fuel. Let this be the year you vow to run towards everything that scares you. The only reason ppl don’t want you to use your voice is bc they know the capacity you have to change everything. Tell it all.
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We used to have search engines.
Now we have answer engines.
When answers get cheap, questions become priceless.
Great thinkers don’t just deliver answers.
They generate better questions.
If the machine can finish the sentence, your job is to ask a better one.
the paradox that as AI proliferates, proving you're human becomes a growing tax, and that tax falls hardest on the people least equipped to pay it.
"What looked like an old woman clearing out her house was... quietly curating how she would remain in her family after she was gone. Every object was a decision about what part of her life she wanted someone specific to carry forward."
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"Studies suggest regular dancing may help reduce stress and improve emotional well-being... dancing supports social interaction because it encourages communication without relying only on words.'
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"The America that I love... is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous administration... join with us in choosing hope over fear. Democracy, over authoritarianism. The rule of law over lawlessness. Ethics over..."
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Frodo leaving the Shire is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking endings in all of literature. He won. The Ring was destroyed. The Shire was saved. And he couldn't stay.
Not because he didn't want to. But because the journey cost him more than anyone around him could see. He carried the weight of the world's evil on his body and soul, and even though the Ring was gone, the scars weren't.
That's Tolkien writing the truest thing he ever wrote: some suffering in this life cannot be healed in this life. There are wounds - spiritual, physical, emotional - that only eternity can restore.
Frodo’s departure isn’t a sad ending, it’s the hope of heaven for someone who gave everything and was broken by it. It's about the promise that what was broken will be made whole. Just not here. And not yet.
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There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul had cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. This is detachment - when the old is over and the new has not yet come.
Nisargadatta, I Am That, Chapter53
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The whole cosmos has come together to create you. You carry the whole cosmos inside you. That is why, to accept yourself and to love yourself is an expression of gratitude.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I'm excited about the SPRINGSTEEN & E STREET Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour - Moda Center - Friday, April 3, 2026. @brookerific
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Puttering around the house is an underrated form of self-care. Make some tea or coffee. Put on a podcast. Sort the mail. Tidy some pillows and fold some blankets. Start the laundry. Thaw some soup. Just casually wander around aimlessly doing little things to make your space and life a little nicer. Who cares if you get distracted or only do a little? You aren't being productive. You're puttering.
"This is authoritarianism 101 where you blame the dissenters and the activists for causing their own death.”
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ATB at 45 East on Feb 28 tixr.com/amp/6c3vwr/164382 via @Tixr_
