Bradley Andrews

🎉 Today would’ve been the 100th birthday of the one and only— Ivan Illich.

☕️ I was sitting in a coffee shop today when two teenagers swung open the door and dragged themselves to the counter.

✏️ New Word Learned: Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow Thank you to @miljko for putting it on the radar.

✍️ New blog post up now // Everyone I Know, I Chose: I was born and raised in Church.

💬 In love with this poem that I have only just come across for the first time.

🗽 August ‘26, no context photos.

✍️ Wrote a lil' something outlining the metaphor I use for creativity and indecision.

🚑 A great research paper from NBER was just released, suggesting that New York City’s congestion pricing program has cut total emergency medical service travel times by over a minute on average.

🕊️ Rest In Peace, Wendell Berry.

✍️ Urgent: Wordplay Machine Out of Cervix A new memo from our CEO. l love my internship at Never Bored Inc., but boy do things get strange. 😅 Embrace the strange!

✍️ Humility In Drag (The Birdcage Interview) // bradley-andrews.com Robin found a way to make those traits a gift for others.

✍️ I just finished a new (vulnerable) piece on presence, anxiety, and how Artificial Intelligence simulates calm but can’t give presence.

📚 I have my next five books lined up for reading.

💬 The IndieWeb is Punk Manifesto I now swear by: THE INDIEWEB IS PUNK MANIFESTO Three chords and a domain name.

✏️ New Term Learned: Non-sequacious: not following with smooth or logical regularity.

🎵 Five beautiful (non-hiphop) song recs for everyone that I think are absolute gems (don’t sleep on these!)

✏ New word learned: Jejune: naive, simplistic, and superficial: (of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting

Finished reading: Educated by Tara Westover 📚 Good book.

📰 I read this New Yorker article on Death Doulas and have thought about it everyday.

💬 Neil Postman in Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change: The consequences of technological change are always vast, often unpredictable and largely irreversible.

💬 RE: My last post.

📚 I normally order all my books through Books Are Magic or Bookshop.org , but I made an exception and went through Amazon this week for, uh, obvious reasons…

✍️ A new company-wide memo from the Never Bored CEO was just published.

🎵 Song’s I’ve been listening to: Good Ol' Days by Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams ENGLISH PARTY by Nirosta Steel Vice City ft.

✏️ New Words Learned: Fantods: a state of extreme nervousness, restlessness, fidgets, or uneasiness—similar to “the willies” or “the heebie-jeebies” Anfractuous: full of windings and intricate turnings : tortuous Icosahedral: having the shape of an icosah…