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Joy.

"It’s not just publishing. A similar stagnancy has settled in at the big movie studios and record labels. Nobody wants to take a risk—but (as I’ve learned through painful personal experience) that’s often the riskiest move of them all. Live by the formula, and you die by the formula."
- Ted Gioia via @jacobwren.bsky.social

What are the skills you find yourself still using the most from your bartending and serving days?

"Pleasure Trip To The West

My spring dreams are crazy and make no sense,
Climbing the mountain is not easy,
Misty willows by the Great Blue Gate,
Clouds above the Purple Temple dance easy peasy.
I brush away the ice’s light layer.
Carefully pour the rich wine. What a failure
I am, though I prepare a poem for you,
What a failure I am, as the night passes by."

—Li Shangyin via

Sober.