Like many of you, I was raised in the background radiation of Calivinist thought. I expected little but redemptive hard labor, before

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2024-11-21 20:30:05

Like many of you, I was raised in the background radiation of Calivinist thought. I expected little but redemptive hard labor, before presumably one day dying in a mine. I also read Hackers & Painters at an impressionable age and was kind of a jerk about it for a while. This talk is about how despite this, I got better.

The real urtext of my tradition was two people standing on stage explaining how although they have different jobs, they are friends, and try to help each other. It was mindblowing at the time and led to many subsequent revelations, and ultimately a blissful state of psychic death. It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

Thanks to many folks who have inspired me over the years but particularly Coda Hale, Kellan Elliot-McCrea, Camille Fournier, and Marc Hedlund.