Willing to get raw
Obama's vernacular, Rummy's rule and Catz & Dogz.
STICKY THINGS Edition IV— provocative material that’s stuck with me:
FUCK YOU: “Biden told a friend that Obama didn’t know how to say fuck you properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of its consonants; it was how they must curse in the ivory tower.” — Franklin Foer, describing the Biden-Obama rivalry in “The Last Politician.” LINK
GET UP: “You could have a lot of meetings standing up that don’t last very long. Once you sit down, have a cup of coffee, let people get comfortable, then time goes. When you’re White House chief of staff, you don’t have a lot of leisure time that you can just be visiting.” — Donald Rumsfeld to author Chris Whipple in “The Gatekeepers,” on his early adoption of a stand-up desk as White House chief of staff. LINK
TEST THE AUTHOR: "I told him that’s how you know you can trust an author—if he’s willing to get raw." — Ghost-writer J.R. Moehringer, explaining to tennis great Andre Agassi the advantage of pursuing a confessional memoir. LINK
LOOK UP: “Looking at the beautiful expanse of the sky is an antidote to the nagging pettiness of earthly concerns. And it is good and sobering to lose yourself in that as often as you can.” — Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman in “The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and The Art of Living.” LINK
WEEKEND EARWORM: “Me Me Me” by Catz ‘n Dogz + Nola LINK
