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October 25, 2024

Archive Report #815

Taking stock, Margins, The Fintstones, Bep Bop, A bridge too far

Legacy

In 20 years

Most of what we made

Either never got made

Or got unmade

The only thing that stood the test of time

Were the Senior Vice Presidents we helped get promoted

And the bonds we formed while applying balm to each other’s wounds


Found in the margins of a thought leader’s notebook

  • “How do we allow users to duplicate and entry without it feeling… duplicative?”

  • “Competence as a second language”

  • “Cultivate empathy”


Overheard

“IDK, it’s yabba dabba doo to me, holmes.”


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A collage of scans from several notebooks containing repeating line art, rubber stamps, a drawing of an old chair and two drawings of a head, one with a rocket coming out of its mouth and a camera for an eye.
ALT: This is a collage I assembled from a stash of notebooks and envelopes found in a bankers box on a pallet of belongings from one of the old surface homes. I carefully removed any blank pages I found and set them aside for the next delivery to Sub Apartment Section 464. I have also included enough writing instruments for everyone in the Section to have two. They should arrive in 10 days. — Custodian 13

NOTE: The following is an excerpt from a Chick Brogan novel titled “Long I Waited, Ne’er You Brained.”

For an entire Summer Doug mistakenly believed he was a Libertarian, but it turned out he had merely enjoyed the movie Fight Club. This was fine with him because he’d had a bellyful of the local chapter meetings. Actually, it was the opposite problem. As far as he was concerned, the choice to not provide refreshments at the meetings, allowing members to either bring their own or remain unrefreshed, was not “respecting the right of each person to live their life as they choose,” it was poor event planning, and that was something Doug would not abide. The Founding Fathers could like it or lump it.


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