“these are not the droids you’re looking for”

“You’re absolutely right to call that out–its a genuine miscalculation on my part. Let me rerun that for you now.”

And honestly, you’re right to feel that way. Em-dashes are a genuine indicator of AI usage.

Most of the good audio gear is coming from niche channels direct from China. Moondrop and Fiio/Snowsky are probably the two biggest brands that you’d potentially find in your nearest city if there’s an audio shop with a chi-fi bent.

Getting iems with removable cables also helps. I resoldered my Porta Pros with MMCX jacks so that I could replace the cable. It is shit that you can’t get anything worth having unless you arguably know too much about the category, but it is out there.

You’ve definitely looked into this with different preferences than me, so apologies if you’ve already covered this - what about the Echo Mini/Nano? Admittedly the Nano battery life isn’t great.

If you “work” for 8760 hours a year it nets out $130k. So not too far off assuming you are on the clock 24/7 with no actual job!

I can’t wait to put this on my work computo!

Ryan Holiday is the pusher for that.

Stoicism helped me have more empathy for myself, which in turn helped me become more empathetic for others. This was after I read the book.

Growing up, I thought Dr. Cox from Scrubs was the emotional role model, as he was described as a “stoic.” Couldn’t have been more wrong. Meditations turned that on it’s head for me and gave me the tools to try and become radically empathetic.

I did get it, I was just trying to make a very dry joke about easy it is to doubt every headline these days!

The any key

I feel called out.

My carpents, please they need fixing.

And if you have time the plumbs under the sink are leaking.