August 2022 Media Diet

August 2022 was one for the history books.

There was a week this month where a year’s worth of news happened: the FBI raided Mar-A-Lago, Salman Rushdie was attacked, Anne Heche died, Fernando Tatis was caught doping, and Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act. As we inch closer to the midterm elections, Joe Biden is finding his stride and right-wing extremists are either predicting or threatening violence, depending on who you ask.

Also, I can’t get the corn song from TikTok out of my head…

@schmoyohointro song for any meal/snack with corn 🌽 - from iconic interview on @doingthings

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On My Radar

August 3 was the four-year anniversary of my traumatic brain injury.

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Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history

Where Do You Go From Here, America?   Let’s resist the temptation to dismiss the political emergency by focusing on the markers of everyday “normalcy.” Democracy really is in a serious crisis, and we should grapple honestly with what that means.   My new column for @GuardianUS:

Guardian US Opinion @GdnUSopinion

This summer may be one of the most consequential in US democracy | Thomas Zimmer https://t.co/QeMovVSrdf

“The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.” — Robert Greene

Nandi Bushell @Nandi_Bushell

A few months after falling in love with #Nirvana I discovered @queensofthestoneage! This is when I started to become obsessed with Mr Grohl’s playing. I started to form my style from copying him. I began to practice hours every day. I was having so much fun. I was 9 years old.

O my friend

if you are longing to be written on,

become a blank page.

— Rumi

Noah Verrier @NoahVerrier

My oil painting of Taco Bell gloriously framed by a collector (signed print version)

“We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart’s armor through which our true colors can shine.” — Elizabeth Lesser

Molly Beane @HeyMollyB

“What we really need rn is not more cars, colonization dreams, & technokings, but a collective project to improve the lives of billions of ppl while taking on the immediate challenges we face regardless of whether it generates corporate profits.”

time.comElon Musk Is Convinced He’s the Future. We Need to Look Beyond HimMusk became the figure everyone was looking for, but the answers we really need will come from collective action, writes Paris Marx

“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy not coming, but on our own readiness to receive them; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War

T. Ryan Gregory @TRyanGregory

Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

Being judgmental is not about how quickly you form opinions. It’s how certain you are of them. Strong convictions from weak info reflect arrogance. Holding views lightly and revising them rapidly reveals humility. Wisdom often ends in a question mark, not an exclamation point.

What I’m Reading

• Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty by Fathali M. Moghaddam

• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks (re-read)

• Nine Stories by JD Salinger (re-read)

Videos I Published

I only had time to publish two videos this month. I’ll be back on my BS after I take the GRE.

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