Frank Boosman

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[Frank Boosman @fboosman]

Over the course of my career, I've participated in a number of efforts to deliberately build product ecosystems. It's insanely difficult to pull off.

What I've never seen—until now—is a firm deliberately destroying an existing product ecosystem. I can't comprehend it.

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"Iowa Republicans want to ban SNAP recipients from buying meat, white bread, and American cheese"

"Indiana House votes to eliminate handgun licenses"

"N.H. lawmakers debate banning schools from teaching about systemic racism and sexism"

Laboratories of democracy.

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"Bill would ban use of certain personal pronouns in ND"

"Wyoming legislators propose bill to phase out EVs by 2035"

"Florida bans AP African American studies"

"Texas governor signs bill allowing more armed teachers"

Laboratories of democracy.

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@dick_nixon Is Bebe still with us, Mr President? Does he have any action on this game?

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Apparently I have the third-most "people-est" name for a dog, after George and Kevin. It scans.

https://t.co/W22dSKfSgn

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@JunkScience @tan123 Rarely has a Twitter handle been so inadvertently accurately composed.

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.@dick_nixon Sir, is there a play where the Ds convince five Rs representing the heaviest Biden-voting districts—the likes of D'Esposito (Biden +14.6) and Valadao (Biden + 13.0)—to switch to Independent, caucus with the Ds, and get plum committees + other considerations?

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"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."—Claude Monet

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"No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today."—Jack Kornfield

Always true, but especially relevant today. Happy New Year!

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Oft-misquoted. This is the actual passage.

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„Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens. — Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.”—Nietzsche

("Out of life's school of war—what does not kill me, makes me stronger.")

Interesting to think about this in the context of the concept of post-traumatic growth (PTG).

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"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"—David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."—Carl Sagan

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I wrote this about the #ClimateEmergency back in 2015. I think it holds up well seven years later.

("ACEP" is the American College of Emergency Physicians.)

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From a 1974 interview of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) by the French writer Roger Errera.

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Because Christmas was on a Sunday, this year we effectively have Boxing Day as a US holiday. What a wonderful tradition it would be to start in this country—not for shopping or anything commercial, but with nothing to do but to be with loved ones, those who mean the most to us.

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To those of you who celebrate it, Merry Christmas. May your day be filled with love, and may someone at your table slip Max a slice of roast beast.

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@technomagus Any specific reason other than the holiday?

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Profound wisdom from His Holiness the 14th @DalaiLama.

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Nicely done, @amazon. Preserving our cultural history—whether design, advertising, popular, or all three as done here—is important for current and future generations. This may seem small, but small things add up.

https://t.co/oakdo0lm2C