‘What’ is passive, but ‘Why’ is active. You can accumulate lots of ‘what’ without having to do anything about it, but once you move to the ‘why’ part, all of the sudden it carries moral implication, responsibility, it starts to actively mess with our lives.

What would that look like if you took out the second part of the equation, the “Why”? Probably a lot like the feedback loop of gather gather gather that you’re talking about here. We keep gathering more data hoping a pattern will emerge.

Thank you so much for linking to my wonderful faculty page, Aly. I don’t know who wrote it, but I think it might have been done as a homework assignment in Remedial College Writing. It’s kind of astounding, given that I handed them a typed document with highlighted lines to use. Yet they still managed to 1) make things up that I didn’t do, 2) make up artists that don’t exist (check out “David Furtado” under professional experience. Huh?) Also, my favorite thing on that entire page is the “Expertise” section. Not only did they misspell “Orchestrator”, their list of my specialties includes “Touring”. How the heck is that an area of expertise? That’s like saying “Using the Elevator”.

“Amongst my many professional qualifications, I am fully capable of sitting my butt down on a bus seat and playing 9 hours of Madden NFL between concerts. Cheers!”