Josh or Somesuch

I removed all the chairs from my house. Yes, all of them. Standing desks are for beginners. I don't sit anymore. Not at meals. Not during calls. Not ever. Why? Because sitting is a dopamine sink. Your glutes go dormant. Blood pools. Your brain gets 23% less oxygen (I measured it). Standing keeps you in a state of "productive discomfort." Discomfort = alertness. Alertness = pattern recognition. Pattern recognition = product-market fit. I eat dinner standing over the sink. I take Zooms pacing back and forth like a caged lion. My calves are basically a pre-seed round for my cardiovascular system. Studies show that 89% of Fortune 500 CEOs do their best thinking while in motion. Churchill held walking meetings. Zuckerberg did walking 1-on-1s. I haven't sat in 6 months and my sprint velocity is up 340%. Every chair you own is a commitment to mediocrity. Every cushion is a compromise with your future self. "But what about rest?" Rest is what you do after the exit. Right now, I have deals to close and a burn rate to justify. My living room? Empty. Just space to pace. My dining room? A war room with whiteboards on every wall—no table. Sitting is the new smoking. Standing is the new sitting. Pacing is the new standing. I'm not uncomfortable. I'm optimized. Don't let Big Furniture gaslight you.

I try to mostly follow people on LinkedIn who are unafraid to shitpost on main

lyrics:

אמנם כן
What a pain
it was to build this lean-to!
But yet, i’m fond
of every frond
and this bamboo —
סככתי

בחג סוכות
The scripture wrote,
we have to build this hut,
and so we go
to Home Depot™
and branches cut —
סככתי

This is incredible camera work

An altoid box that says “mere breath” “Curiously existential”

Chag Sukkot Sameach to Robert Alter fans! (iykyk)

I am so, so tired.

The Gary Larson Cow Tools comic, edited to replaced the tools on the table with the numbers 8, 4, 7, and 1. The cow standing behind the table is wearing a t-shirt that proclaims "I AM FROM SPACE" and the barn in the background has a sign with the number 66 on it. Caption reads "That's Numberwang."

day 17 of posting a cow tools every day and LET'S ROTATE THE BOARD

Two tall buildings stand next to each other. One has a signed at the top reading "Institute for the understanding and appreciation of jokes". the other building has a sign at the top which is just the Far Side cow tools cartoon, featuring a bipedal cow showing off her 4 crudely made tools. An angry mob is exiting the first building and heading towards the cow tools building, carrying pitchforks, bats, and guns. Caption reads, "The dam bursts."

That fateful night in October of 1982:

Cow tools sticker on the wall of the bathroom at Geno’s rock club in Portland Maine

Dude @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social

If your response to a fatal attack on a synagogue outside of Israel-Palestine on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar is to make it entirely about Israel-Palestine, in either direction, consider that you are part of the problem.

Wishing all the globalists a meaningful Yom Kippur and an easy fast.

An Amazon listing of a glittery banner that says “Yom Kippur” the title of the banner is “Yaaaaasss! Yom Kippur Banner Jewish New Year Decor Rosh Hashanah Party Supplies Jewish...” in the top right corner it says “pre strung” It costs 12.99

Out: gmar chatima Tova
In: Yaaaaasss! Yom Kippur

The hiring rate (gross hiring, not the net job change we measure in the Friday jobs reports) has been below its long-run average for more than a year. It had seemed like it was leveling off, but might be falling again now, though hard to say definitively just yet.

But it IS getting harder to find a job. There is now less than one job opening per unemployed worker. Not a low rate by historical standards, but definitely weaker than just before the pandemic (and way weaker than at the peak of the reopening boom).

Rewarding myself for almost going to bed early by staying up much later

"That time I ran across a strange city with all my luggage only to miss my train"

SLEEPTOBER 2025 COMING IN CINEMA NEAR YOU

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

exclusivegorgeousgeek Therapist: "And what do we say when life disappoints us" Me: "Called it" Therapist: "no"

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

This is one of those things that never fails to get a smile out of me

West Roxbury's great divide Centre Street in West Roxbury has long had two digital clocks on either side of Centre Street - and they have almost never told the same time. Currently, people on the south side of the street are tak...

This is still true, by the way. Always has been, always will be

(I miss when they each displayed the temperature and naturally didn't agree on that either)

www.universalhub.com/2019/west-ro...

I passed a similar request onto a true expert.

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E25 - Conspiracy

If you, dear reader, care for me even a little, you will gift this to me

I would like the child sacrificed to stop, either by we stop doing them, or we acquire an orb with some kind of enchantment, I don't want to be too prescriptive about it, but an orb or other artifact with magical properties that causes them to stop.

שנה טובה ומתוקה

A classic

I eat healthily but not well, in that if I get like a big thing of spinach my brain goes “well, guess I’m eating spinach today” and I eat nothing but spinach until there is no more spinach.

god dammit