There's a commentary going on inside our heads and it could be anything. It could be meandering like it could be panicky. Oh my god, how do I get out of here? Uh it could be busy. Oh my god, I could be doing this. I could be doing that. Where's my scrambled
It just doesn't work that way. We tend to meander our way, I think, a lot of times through life. I've told the younger guys, hopefully, I've saved you 10 or 15 years of wandering in the wilderness, if you will.
The office, you're going to need to hire some new staff to do this and that. And you generally meander around. I was just thinking about the letter that I'd sent to my successor along those lines.
Because the ballet dancers have to have the beat. Musicians they tend to meander off into these less important things. But something else happened that was more interesting than that, is that, in that environment, where you're coming in and you've got a boss and sometimes you are
I think that's a kind of limited way to look at art because art can be like a dream, and it can be meandering in different ways. And sometimes it says something even more profound than what you thought you should have as a rule in your songs.
So on the first day of recording, we brought this massive folder full of MIDI files, some of which were just endless sequences of notes that kind of meandered and went nowhere, and began to just listen to them, began to kind of audition them from latent space and listen for things that we thought sounded interesting, sounded unusual, sounded like us but different, that made us excited.
And some of it was reason, some of it was observed, some of it was felt. But I just couldn't let go of it. I've kind of meandered in a lot of different spaces. Ai-jen and I always joke about how I've been in government, and I worked for management consulting, and I was trained as an organizer.
and then forget about you. I'm happy with meandering .
I wanted to answer this question. Don't be so meandering . Be more like me, succinct.
To our left was a chain link fence, and behind that a line of tall shaggy spruces that bounded the grounds of a grade school. The Kootenai River meandered nearby.
Watch the rivers go. These are called meanders , and the river is meandering . And what that means is that as the sedimentation comes from the Andes and gets deposited, the river actually changes its banks.
We went to the National Science Fair in Canada four times. And that sort of led to a meandering wayward career trajectory for me. Because we did most of our science fair projects in plant physiology, I wound up-- well, I call this my over-educated and underemployed period
So we're still in excellence, this first paradox, and the punch line is, to get to an excellent destination, sometimes you have to take a meandering path and lower the stakes, lower the standards. So think about this now, think about yourself, think about perfectionism.
And I noticed, as we were walking back from lunch in the cafeteria with Ping, that we crossed a bridge over what looked like a pretty shallow meandering stream. So that'll do for the purpose of my example.
largely energy based. We can't ship those tomatoes around the world that much longer or import them that much longer with spikes on energy. So I think it's a bit meandering here but soil fertility, biological activity in the soil breaks down the micronutrients slower that heirloom seeds pick up faster.
and then forget about you. I'm trying really hard to resist the temptation to just meander and ramble, so I'm going to try to make this as short as I possibly can.
And that wandering, meandering path, to me, also is something where I realized, yeah,
And so when I finally-- sort of my path meandered and I said, it's time for me to go to grad school.
I found this image some way into the meandering research process, and I was really happy to see that asterisk poster up
I'm sure you've found this a bit meandering .
Could you navigate a shortcut route through that network rather than meandering , stumbling down blind alleys route that we took the first time around?
island because of this history because its layout of Meandering alleys and side streets was already established by the
bond, because now they don't have hours to meander .
This was the key thing, and you can just meander through the civil service.
It's like super long, autobiographical, meandering just shit, really awful, which is to say it's longer stuff.
"Butoh, B-U-T-O-H The Japanese spirit dance meanders in twists and turns between living and dead. Dead is another version of irrational.
- When I think about how to get from one place to another, I know that I'm probably gonna meander around some local roads, then hop on a highway,
and then when I'm close to my destination, I'm gonna hop off the highway and meander around some more local roads.
Those things. It makes me think about-- and I've got all these questions I'm supposed to ask, and I can't help but meander .
Yeah, even rivers appear to stop winding in the fossil record, because vegetation usually lets rivers-- stabilizes river banks, and so the rivers meander .
Because when societies tip over to the extreme, far to the extreme of any side, they sort of meander and lose something intangible.
going to accelerate where it is they're going to be. They're not going to kind of meander around. And as Jeff put it, they're not going to make the same kind of mistakes. And so,
This kind of change happens because, over time, water pushes sediments from one edge of the river to the other, forming meanders , or curvy sections.
Yeah. I think also, our obsession with efficiency is kind of at odds with creative work, which is a bit more meandering and doesn't always
on track. And what I find myself doing even at this point, I'm just kind of meandering .
go to a Stanford or a Berkeley, or a Harvard, and that people's paths are very meandering