The Big Book of Mayhem

The thing that makes me maddest about consumer monitors is that they aren’t cameras and I can’t just flip them my middle finger.

It is the purpose of myth to systematically codify social behavior. It is a tyranny of race and gender applied en masse to feed the engine of “human resources”. No wonder people murder, steal, and abuse in the name of their myths so readily. But if you squint and peer through the miasma of bullshit, [...]

The problem with the box-checking automated approach to everything is that it demands 100% of people to be on or at a mean average and then punishes anyone outside the center of the bell curve. This impacts huge numbers of people in a variety of ways. Just about everyone falls outside the curve in some [...]

You don’t have to be your best every day. Some days just being is hard enough. Be as kind to yourself as you would to someone else you care about.

The only thing you truly have power over is you. The only one who can help you is you. Causality is just the giant Rube Goldberg Machine we’re all stuck in. So if you want to effect change in anything you have to shake up that machine by action against its momentum. You have to [...]

I'm all about pushing boundaries and breaking rules, but if you're gonna un-learn it you have to learn it first. This is the difference between performance and pretension. The good news is if you keep at it, accept the challenges and absorb the feedback, you can reach a place you never thought you could get [...]

One of my Mayhemisms is that life is like a birth lottery or like rolling up a new D&D character. We all come into the world with a handful of blessings and a handful of curses. Our internal blessings and curses are our character. But our external blessings and curses are our privilege. Economically up [...]