amanda peyton

Anyone else do that thing where they listen to one song over and over and over again - like dozens or >100 times - in the course of a day or two, almost in an attempt to fuse that song's DNA with your own, to try and find the singular truth represented therein? Or is it just me?

On my flight to CES. I’m sitting next to a “roller coaster professional” who flies around the country finding dying malls and converting the sq footage into family entertainment zones. “I’m scouting out the big Macy’s locations that will probably close soon.”

I’m not a party guy but I’d be down if someone threw a real roaring 20’s party for 2020. Like real tuxedos and all. Not shirtless dudes with a bow tie. Like a real Gatsby party with everyone fully dressed like the era.

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else.’” -Toni Morrison

Happy 115th birthday to the NYC subway 472 stations in operation (most of any in the world) 245 miles of routes 24 hours/day service Averages 5.6M rides daily during the week All for $2.75 per ride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway …

It is impossible to imagine the world without Scorpios. Or their devotional obsession. Intensity. Allure. Insistence on passion. Belief in pleasure. Secrecy. Art. Retaliation. The sign most connected to the occult. And most connected to poetry. Happy Scorpio season. It's here.

In an instance of the Bay Area being very Bay Area: today was my first day in SF since moving here, and I ran into someone from my YC batch who told me he was on a “dopamine fast” and thus had to cut our convo short (lest he acquire too much dopamine)