Saturday, June 6, 2020

toa preview - upset culture

Hi reader,

Yesterday I mentioned that I was afraid of wearing everyone out by piling hundreds of words each day into your stuffed inboxes. One idea to bring down the number is the 'preview', a few sentences about an upcoming post, and debuting NOW.

Tomorrow's post was a true slow roller, and writing it took over three months. I hatched the idea early in lockdown when March Madness was cancelled and it slowly evolved from there, shifting with various events, insights, and conversations. The key moment was Joe Biden's infamous appearance on 'The Breakfast Club'. There were many lessons learned from his conversation with Charlamagne the God, and none of them very uplifting. Perhaps at the bottom of the list was the silver lining that, finally, I had an opportunity to end my post, and I chose to take it.