My own 5WP's, (five-pack two+Reciprocal Paradox+1901 Modern Pen and Ink+Reactionary Classics)

and a couple pictures

Here are five non-prompted 5WPs that popped up over the past few weeks. It's a fun challenge to memorialize a moment using only five words and then make it pretty.

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11/26

bumping
gnx
stopped at yellow

I had just hit 55mph on the highway when the light turned yellow. Even though I was vibing hard to the first track on Kendrick's new album gnx, I slowed down and stopped.

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12/5

hangin' out
d. w.
at T3

On Thursday, my sister’s flight was delayed a couple of hours so I got a little extra time to hang out with them. That evening, my

d.w.

was flying out of town, so I hung out with him at the airport bar. It's a big perk to join folks for their last few moments in Vegas.

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palm
of
peach
leaf
flames

We visited the grandparents after Thanksgiving. This popped up while helping the kids collect leaves and twigs to make a nest on the patio.

12/6

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12/9

I want the crispy chicken

(donut)

We had fried chicken for Thanksgiving. A week later I bought four donuts from Randy's Donuts (a chain entering the Vegas market). This was his choice for the first day.

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12/10

asleep we reach our souls

I have no idea how this line popped into my head, but it was a perfect 5WP.

On the first version, the boy typed the background text while testing a new ribbon for my typewriter. It doesn't scan dark, but it's a huge improvement over the twenty year-old ribbon. In undergrad, I didn't use the computer for art or architecture work. When applying to grad school I bought a Remington Quiet-Riter so I scan in real typewritten text to emphasize my hand work. I got into almost all of the schools, so I guess they appreciated my devotion to this illusion.

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A few weeks ago, I deleted all social media apps from my phone to detox from those random dopamine hits keep us constantly distracted. The only exception was YouTube, because it has become a second podcast player. In the void, YouTube started creeping up.

I found a solution in ZenScreen, a simple free app that delays how long it takes before YouTube opens. If it's important, I can wait 60 seconds. If not, I'll lose patience and slip over to the podcast or music app.

I don't care about their tracking features, but the core delay feature works perfectly....though I'm not sure how long it will last. I find that most life-hacks are only effective for about six weeks before my monkey brain finds a workaround back to the juice.

Cya next time!
Justus

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PS–Reciprocal Paradox

As a Project Manager I try to cultivate a feeling of psychological safety with my design team. I hope this will draw out that “edge” from each individual on that team.

But if I don't sense that "edge", I will judge the heck out of you as a professional.

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PPS-1901 Modern Pen and Ink

As a dude with money to purchase (and the time to read) a 123 year old book on pen and ink printings, I have more in common with the socialites depicted on these pages than the exhausted workers toiling in their slums.

Privilege is a weird thing. In today's chaos, it's easy to feel that we're the victims of our story, but every single person reading this has been gifted with a cornucopia of great things (such as a flat screen monitor/device integrated with an unimaginably cheap, powerful, and small supercomputer).

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PPS-Reactionary Classics

Earlier this year, academia hosted a plagiarism kerfuffle which has driven me deeper into my preference for "great books". If nothing is guaranteed (and now likely laundered by AI), at least the classics have stood the test of time.

Yes, these classics are plagiarized works themselves—bits and bobs accreted over decades until they were frozen for millennia. But the ones that have survived to the present were so damn good that generation after generation thought it was worthy to reproduce by hand.

So there must be something there there? Right?

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