Month: March 2026

“In a way the modern big-club coach takes the job with the full awareness that they are basically a narrative device, a reset button to press when things get sticky, a meat sacrifice that allows everyone else to indulge the illusion of renewal. You can’t shift the owners and you can’t sell an entire playing squad. So the purpose of the manager is essentially to be fired: to be responsible for the things they’re not really responsible for, to be immediately disposable, to provide the illusion of a simple solution where none exists”

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/18/liverpool-arne-slot-premier-league-champions-league-football

“The proverb “if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” ought to be seen in this context. If you really are at the stage of development where the only tool you have is a hammer, then it strikes me that it’s incredibly sensible to go around looking at your various problems, and seeing if any of them could be improved by a bit of hammering”

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/everything-is-a-nail-or-at-least

“it is important to understand that trolling is not simply about being obnoxious on the internet. It is about baiting people. The term itself arguably comes from a form of fishing. The victory came not from being horrible per se, but from getting people worked up, making them care. It gave rise to a moral economy with a single, absolute rule: the worst thing you can be is someone who meant it”

https://www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/on-radical-sincerity

“The woman across from you at the coffee shop may be someone who will never ever want to fuck you – that is often the case – but she’s also not a jewel locked in a vault that only a six-foot-three hedge fund manager with a Greek statue’s bone structure can crack. Rather, she’s a human being with free will and a body that wants things, a mind that gets lonely sometimes, a heart that may like very much to find someone else to press against in the dark… a person, in other words”

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-incels-veto-and-other-observations

“You can imagine Trump as Gollum with some of Sauron’s powers, but to his credit, Gollum understood the One Ring was only as good as the powers that went with it. (While I’m at it with the Middle Earth analogies, let’s call Silicon Valley’s overlords orcs who think they are hobbits.)”

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/visions-of-life-agents-of-death-on-love-thy-neighbor-and-love-thy-nature/