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Happy Halloween.
Another month has come to an end, and my favorite time of year has kicked off in full force. Fall, the changing of the leaves, and a creep toward the new year.
October 2025
The Stats: 16 artists, 17 albums, 152 tracks (243 scrobbles)
Fun week of music. Sigrid, Taylor Acorn, People R Ugly … all top notch stuff.
Blog: Don’t Worship the Grind
Worshipping the grind is a side effect of status anxiety. If you don’t have credentials, or a network, or a novel idea, then you need to show you’re serious. And what better way than by staying in the office when everyone else goes home and tweeting about it? It’s peacocking: look how hard I’m trying. But effort is not value. Hours are not outcomes. Work is not the same as progress.
If your only edge is effort, you’re replaceable. There is always someone who can work longer. Someone younger, hungrier, more desperate. There is no long-term moat in exhaustion. And if you do somehow win that way, you might not like the prize. You’ll have built a system that only functions when you’re suffering.
This whole piece is great but these two paragraphs? Chef kiss.