EJ Harkness on Clubhouse

Bio

Extra. Meta. https://xkcd.com/451/

Good at breaking things in productive ways.

Sprezzatura, the key word of the Renaissance, literally translates as “un-priced-ness,” or “the quality of setting no price upon a thing.” I like to think of it as “effortful effortlessness,” like Fred Astaire dancing. Sure, you can dance like that; just try, it must be easy. What’s that, am I falling? Oh no, it’s part of the dance. I’m like Ginger Rogers here, I make it look easy. #Priceless

Almost a poet (maker){ask me to recite something}.

Everything is an experiment, as long as you keep a control group. Let’s blow something up together. You go first! Okay I’ll go. This is fun. If it’s not fun you’re doing it wrong, unless this is the not-fun part that’s research for the novel. If it’s research, can I expense it? Does my van count as an office if I work in it?

Defender of #markdown, believer in #opensource, technically illiterate product manager. Generally slightly over-extended, but surfing. Very specifically not-banned from many of the finest communities. Fuck the other ones, they’re toxic.

Driven by integrity, authenticity, generosity, faith, and other values I’m still working out. Lots of values {testimonies}. Also principles; maybe ten of them (maybe 11). Into agreements; less into commandments {rules, laws}.

Highly intentional. Easily distracted. Occasionally high. (What? It’s California.)

Always working on suppressing my ego. Taking up less space {negative space is the goal, got a lot of ancestors to account for}. Is that healthy? I don’t know, but it’s my best guess at how one becomes self-actualized without causing harm. Working on it. Always working. I can only have fun if I’m working. That’s the legacy of my Puritan-adjacent forebears; but they were wrong {or: their neighbors were} so I’m Quaker.

Interested in everything.

I miss Sgt Pepper. He was The Best Cat™️. It’s true, we did a whole brand campaign when he went missing in the Haight, you can read about it in the New Yorker. Me? I’m from Chicago. Or well, the stolen lands of the ____ by way of ____ but I guess that’s just Scotland. Never got to go on my Birthright trip. Went to California instead. Or Paris. Which time? I’m really bad at time. Did I tell you my first-ever business trip was to Tokyo? I tend to skip a few steps, then stumble. Get up, keep walking. Maybe you were just dancing. I dance as fast as I walk. Gotta keep moving.

I love you. Even though we just met. Yes. And.