…actually, why not?
Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
More postcards and personal letters. More in-person visits. More long conversations. More hours where “unreachable” is real.
More typewriters, Xerox, fax machines. More quiet evenings and comfortable silences, more of the Old World that disappeared.
No more computers? Time would slow down immediately.
#throwback
Describe something you learned in high school.
We had fantastic history teachers who taught pattern recognition and insisted on historical context.
They were big on Nothing is inevitable and Look at who’s telling the story.Â
One history teacher especially was all about Double-check your sources because liars be lying.
They took their time to show us how oftentimes the biggest lies are the ones that make people feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Basically, if something felt like the perfect explanation with zero nuance, then someone was selling a story for some kind of profit. They set up exercises so we could find the story, identify the profit, and figure out the nuance.
Rather than tell, they showed us the complexity of human experience. And, they made us think, even when we didn’t want to. They made us sit in our discomfort. And gave us room to argue our points, especially if we argued well. That didn’t mean they agreed. They expected us to take the heat if we were already trying to prove them wrong.
Were they perfect? No. They had their foibles. But they were genuine educators who were passionate about their subject and were given the space to actually teach it. Which is how we got a capital E Education, and yes, I am grateful.
Makes The Horrors pretty horrible, though, ngl…
#timelines
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Slow down. Breathe. Enjoy the sunshine. Go swim. See the sights. Connect with that person.
Do that thing you always wanted to do.
If you can’t, what’s holding you back? Figure that out.
Then go and find out which underpaid single mother already did what you always wanted to do, and follow her lead.
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Daily Affirmations, if wanted:
• Your life is a garden: Water what nourishes, remove what poisons, and be mindful of the weeds, they pop up regularly.
• Grow at your own pace. There’s only one you.
• Rest well: It takes time to recuperate, and you need it, body and soul.
• Take that time off you’ve been meaning to take, and do something positive you genuinely enjoy.
• Give people their flowers when they’re around to receive them.
• Be a good friend. That sometimes means saying, “Thus far and no further,” and meaning it.
• Boundaries: Yours and others. Respect them.
• Read at least one book of fiction every year. You don’t have to tell anybody about it. Just enjoy the experience.
• Find that music album Younger You loved and listen to it all the way through.
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#humpday
Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?
There is something magical about a person who, despite all attempts to stop them, stays true to who they really are.
How has technology changed your job?
If you ever yelled at a radio dj because they started talking exactly when they shouldn’t, and so ruined a perfect recording of your favourite new song, then this question is probably a bit tricky because where to even begin…
#oldschool
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