Glenn Stovall

protip: just set everything on fire. Why use many elements when one does trick?

We could all stand to be a little more playful at work.

I don't mean trivializing everything. Instead, bringing a lighthearted way of viewing the world.

Play is one of the most important things humans do.

Play is the engine of creation—the spark behind culture, myths, jokes, poems, and stories.

at some point we forgot that people are complicated, hard to be around, and worth it

me and wife both opened spotify, both times it randomly started on the song "smack sum" by 26j, an artist neither one of us had heard of or seen before. wtf?

Eisenhower matrix but it's how bad shit is now and how bad shit could get

yes you do. much respect for the $17.00/hr wage $1.50/hot dog company

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YouTube: "Pivot to vertical video!
Instagram: "Vertical video!"
Spotify: "Vertical video! "
Nintendo: "Spotify clone!"

www.nintendo.com/us/switch/on...

Like a proper millennial I watch my TikToks on Instagram.

We won't notice the ban for another two weeks or so

The bibliomancy exercise goes like this: Take a notebook and pen and go to a library, to the fiction stacks, poetry, autobiography, literary criticism, literary journals... maybe even choose a different genre for each selection. Ask, "What should I be writing about?" And for 60 minutes—set a timer even—wander the stacks, flipping open books at random. Pause before the shelf, and if you want it to be more like a Tarot card reading, close your eyes, reach out with your non-dominant hand and see if there’s a book that feels like it is pulling at you, maybe even warmer than the others. Flip it open and if you like, run your finger down the page, or, just read the two facing pages for a passage that speaks to you. Write it down along with the title and author, even the page number if you want to find it again. Do this 6 more times. Read the list of quotes and look for a common theme or themes. Write them down. Are there any images or ideas that repeat or images or ideas that speak to your own ideas? Is there even just a line you like particularly?

I love @alexanderchee.bsky.social's Bibliomancy assignment — such a great way to encourage exploration of the library, to help students appreciate the value of curiosity and magic of serendipity. I cld see this being ⭐ for first-year composition classes.

querent.substack.com/p/bibliomanc...

never get over the contrast of the family costco trip

food for lunch; $4.82
supplies for Q1: $582

spicy

My Leeroy Jenkins Year 2025 the year of actionable thinking

last post of 2024 - my new year's resolution to stop calculating odds of survival, and run directly at my dragons:

open.substack.com/pub/statetra...

the trump / elon drama is all theater.

it's a preview of what to come - instead of democrats and republicans, your "choice" in the new kleptocracy is between MAGA or DOGE

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A gym for lawyers called Terms & Conditioning

DuckDuckGo everyone its better than Google today

Name Your Next Product With This Exercise How do you come up with a product name? or a business name? Naming products is a hard but learnable skill. There are agencies that provide names-as-a-service. [https://www.zinzin.com/] ZinZin’s existe...

I have an exercise I use for this:

www.glennstovall.com/name-your-ne...

Oh you think that "javascript is a bad language," do you? All computer languages are bad. Javscript is just chaotic evil and what you want is lawful.

There is no such thing as a good computer language because *any* attempt to speak to rocks and make them think is the behavior of warlocks.

Google Drive tabs are going to be killer for working on multiple re-write of longform pieces

Big opportunity for someone named Mario out there

still watching Survivor 20+ years later, despite disliking the "new era" structure

but why have emotions when I can just do a Stoicism

tired: inside me there are two wolves
inspired: inside me there are seven dragons

A test of how seriously your firm is taking AI: when o-1 (& the new Gemini model) came out this week, were there assigned folks who immediately ran the model through your internal, validated, firm-specific benchmarks to see how useful it as? Did you update any plans or goals as a result?

we tried that it didn't work

most of parenting is figuring out the correct amount of fucking around and finding out you allow them to do

I bring this up because I’m working on a new book about the topic, and helping you would be useful for me as research. And hopefully, you as well.

It's the perfect time to start roadmapping your 2025 career strategy. DM me if you’re interested.

If you are a software developer who wants to:

-Improve their product thinking skills
-Understand the business, design, & product side of your biz
-Have more ownership and influence in their job

I would love to grab some time, answer questions, and help you think through how to approach it 👇

I'm dreaming(hallucinating?) of an AI Christmas Corporations are figuring out what they can get away with this year

New on the blog

The Coca-cola commercial looks weird an no one is sure if Mariah Carey is real anymore: how major corporations are leveraging AI for seasonal content

www.statetransition.co/p/im-dreamin...

yeah we're pretty polarized over here