flying out of EWR this morning and got through Terminal C security (with PreCheck) in 7 mins 🙏

I built a crowd-sourced TSA security wait time app - Terminal Watch - that covers the top ~10 airports in the US, grabbing wait-time-related posts from BlueSky & Twitter/X (blech) into a per-airport, per-terminal dashboard w/ overall commentary about airport conditions. terminalwatch.info

Vonnegut particularly relevant today (I just happen to be reading Slaughterhouse Five right now)

I’ve cried through this entire Willie Nelson set at Farm Aid. He means so much to this country. A true hero

The best feature of any hotel is the Hampton Inn self-serve waffle iron. Five star hotels take note — you will never truly be five star to me until you add this amenity.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

1/ My favorite new product: Brick. Set up profiles like "out to dinner" or "work" w/ apps you want to block in those contexts. Tap the Brick & those apps are unavailable to you until you tap the device again & un-Brick. This review explains how it works. www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/the-bri...

realizing lately that I’ve actually missed the fun and learning of social media despite not being interested in that other site any more. gonna try posting random stuff here again and see what happens!

My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

a package was misdelivered to my house and the recipient name was a little unusual so I googled it and ended up on a LinkedIn profile. I burned an InMail reaching out and the story ended with that person picking up the package at my place this morning. LinkedIn and Christmas - killer combo.

my family has a pet parakeet & when we got him I wasn't a "bird person" (in fact, I was highly skeptical of birds as pets) but 4 years later every morning when I wake up, I talk to the bird and flap my arms like I'm flying which causes him to flap his wings in response. A great way to start the day.

Definitely check this amazing film out from my friend Gary Hustwit! It's been really amazing seeing this develop from concept to reality & playing a small part by making the intros to eventual executive producers @elatable.com & @ireneau.bsky.social. Only available in theaters. . . until now!

Today I found myself pondering the mysterious staying power of the Dippin' Dots brand. How do they do it? What is their secret in a world otherwise full of uncertainty?

I just sent a fax. AMA.

Really proud that *three* of 10 productions mentioned in this Artforum "Best of 2024" list are from the amazing St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn (where I have served on the board for 11 years). I love what they do and the risks they take year in and year out. www.artforum.com/lists/rhoda-...

Lydia Davis’ (very) short stories are perfect for my attention span and my inability to stay awake for long when doing bedtime reading.

grateful for this new Kim Deal record (among many other more profound things like family, friends, and good health!)

met a guy who runs a very pro recording studio in NYC and he needed some wifi/networking help so I’ve been trading him network config for sitting in on some fucking amazing recording sessions. so today i set up some wifi APs while listening to killer live jazz. A great trade.

If you haven't locked in your turkey-cooking method just yet, may I suggest smoking the turkey. I've done it a few times and it is The Way.** ** well, right up there with deep-frying, but less mess! blog.thermoworks.com/smoking-a-tu...

saw M Ward do a show at Cafe Carlyle last night and it was magical. I’ve spent so many nights standing in a dank venue drinking PBR seeing shows but seated in a plush club a little dressed up having steak frites and a couple of martinis is a nice way to do it now and then.

Last night I saw Bit Brigade, a band from Athens, GA that does live soundtracks to classic video games (one of the band members is at the front of the stage playing the game). I'm not super into video games or metal these days but it was incredible. Go see them! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W5d...

my son is taking the SHSAT today (for admission into the amazing specialized public high schools in NYC) and the site is James Madison HS in Midwood, Brooklyn where Ruth Bader Ginsberg attended. Love the Madison quote on the building — more meaningful than ever.

I got an email recently that had an old-school note at the bottom that urged me not to print the email for environmental reasons and I thought that was so adorable. Reminded me of simpler times.

Votes are still being counted and while the Electoral College is locked (and it's over, not arguing that) Trump has edged below 50% of the popular vote. (Source: Cook Political Report)

the onion acquisition of infowars with the full support of the sandy hook families is such a candle in the darkness

My wife is out running some errands & a package came. I opened it & quickly realized that in the delivery, something like Axe Body Spray got spilled onto the box -- it was wet & sticky. Now it won't wash off of my skin. So my wife left for 2 hrs & now I smell like a teen boy. Figuring out my story.

this post from Elad Gil advising founders/CEOs on how to recognize when executives aren't scaling with the company and what to do about it is the most succinct & useful writing on this topic that I've seen. This issue is one of the most common I see in my coaching. blog.eladgil.com/p/when-execu...

1/ I’m re-introducing myself here since a lot has changed in the past ~7 yrs & I haven’t been doing much on social media in that time. My interests have shifted a lot since I lived a more public life so I’m posting this with the hope that I’ll connect with some co-conspirators on my new interests.

checking this place out again after a long hiatus.

My exec coaching biz is busy these days but I've been geeking out on music a lot lately, too. I decided to pay forward all of the help I've gotten on YouTube by making a video addressing something I had seen others struggling with re: the Roland BOSS RC-600 looper. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS-...

Under-discussed aspect of living in NYC: if you've lived in a few different cities around the country over the years, NYC is the one place where friends from all of other other places you've lived will visit pretty regularly -- and that's a wonderful thing.

I own the domain stopfuckingwithme.com. Only once in my 19 years (!) of owning has anyone cold-emailed me to try to buy it. I couldn't help but respond with this simple message: "Stop fucking with me."

spending some time in Dublin and Cork soon. Anyone got any recs for food, drink, music, art, etc? Been to Dublin a couple of times, never been to Cork.

This story is 11 years old now but I have been wondering if Sonic Youth ever got their gear back for 24 years and somehow missed this when it was posted. WHEW. https://pitchfork.com/news/47906-sonic-youth-recover-stolen-guitars-after-13-years/amp/

New York Libraries are facing a $36.2 million budget cut. Today is a day of action. This is a link to the social media tools page: https://investinlibraries.org/dayofaction Please post about it. Tell people. Make your voices heard. #NocutstoLibraries

I have a CO2 sensor in my house and I entered the room where it lives this afternoon. It read 666. Appropriate for this week in NYC. 🤘

my favorite act of blatant denial is when I see people driving with a bright orange parking ticket under the driver side windshield wiper. 🙈

For the building nerds, a fairly technical account of the issues I encountered in my "passive house" in Bklyn during the extreme air quality situation this week & various ways of remediation. https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/wildfire-smoke-puts-high-performance-nyc-buildings-to-the-test

Heard someone exclaim yesterday "did you know that being out in the air all day today in NYC is like smoking SIX cigarettes??!!" My response: "That makes me feel a lot better, actually." (I come from a family of tobacco farmers and six cigarettes is called "breakfast" where I'm from.)

Twitter might have a new CEO and she might be extremely talented but a CEO job where the owner of the company remains to focus on product design and tech isn't a real CEO job. (I base this assertion on having been a CEO, a CTO, and coaching people through this stuff in ~40 companies).

I inadvertently bumped the HomePod on my desk while dusting and somehow it started playing Gram Parsons’ tear-jerker “Brass Buttons.” Never felt so melancholy from a dusting accident.

I'll admit I was a little worried that the social environment here might have the vibe of being at an SF party circa 2006 and getting cornered by an OpenID advocate but it's not like that at all.

when @scottbeale.bsky.social offers an invite to something, you fucking take it. Hello!