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The Monday Morning Memo

You get a shiver in the dark
It’s raining in the park but meantime-
South of the river you stop and you hold everything:
A band is blowing Dixie – double four time.
You feel alright when you hear the music ring.

Well now you step inside but you don’t see too many faces.
Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down.
Competition in other places.
But the horns, they blowin’ that sound
Way on down south
Way on down south
London town

You check out Guitar George, he knows-all the chords
Mind, it’s strictly rhythm, he doesn’t want to make it cry or sing.
They said an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing.

And Harry doesn’t mind if he doesn’t make the scene.
He’s got a daytime job; he’s doing alright.
He can play the Honky Tonk like anything.
Savin’ it up for Friday night
With the Sultans.
We’re the Sultans of Swing.

Then a crowd’a young boys, they’re foolin’ around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles.
They don’t give a damn about any trumpet playin’ band.
It ain’t what they call Rock and Roll.
And the Sultans.
Yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole.
Creole.

And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last, just as the time bell rings:
“Goodnight! Now it’s time to go home”
Then he makes it fast with one more thing:
“We are the Sultans.
We are the Sultans of Swing.”

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“One of my current objectives is to be more present and to fully experience things. Like when doing dishes, to observe the sound of water whooshing out of the faucet, splashing on the dishes, tinkling on the stainless steel sink. And then I can feel the warm-hot soapy water on my hands and the textures of the blue Scotch-Brite sponge while breathing in the hints of clementine scented dish soap. It’s almost an exercise in ASMR.

I say this because I’ve been working on setting intentions and using them to optimize my workflows, And that has given me the freedom to find peace in many moments throughout the day.

And then I realized…

The biggest irony of all the tech like ChatGPT is that like the internet and cat videos, AI will give humans more potential and ability to live in the moment. But instead many will choose to scroll their lives away.

—
I can’t find the source, but there’s a joke about explaining to a visitor from the 1800s how we now have these devices in our pockets capable of accessing all the world’s collective knowledge. The visitor asks what we do with such power, and the response is “mostly watch cat videos and get into arguments with strangers”.”

- sent to me by Cedric Yau

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