Jim Willis

  • Stay off southbound 35 in eatontown of your car inspection is expired – traffic stop setup

  • a sort of long-winded travelog concerning our recent trip to Washington DC covering The Mall, bikes and a killer hotel: http://bit.ly/182M2o

  • Meeting with WBGO in Newark this AM.Best jazz station in the country and the DJs provided the foundation for my musical education growing up

  • Big day today-relaunched RB’s hyperlocal on a slicehost-hosted wordpress install AND ordered my 56cm Surly Long Haul Trucker. Time for a nap

  • have a six-hour road trip (via car) and am looking for some tune recommendations for the trip. I’ll be sans kids. Full albums would be cool.

  • nytimes travel sections covers family-friendly hiking in New Jersey: http://bit.ly/AtvOz (via Eastern MNTN Sport @easternmntn)

  • via @briandonohue Corzine killing pre-K program in NJ. There’ll be a lot of disappointed kids & parents next year.

  • Re: previous tweet on Pre-K. Have heard from multiple sources that Red Bank’s pre-k should be spared (one of a handful state-wide).

  • Looking to borrow star wars DVD for this AM: new hope or phantom menace. If u r local to 07701 and will lend DM me.

  • Gotta be honest, hearing my playlist on our local public radio station is even cooler than I thought it would be! http://bit.ly/GrgNW

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]

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