"I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare."                                      - Maya Angelou

"This beautiful, delicate earth is being destroyed by greedy humans who run powerful corporations, and I’m done being a part of it.

"I made my career in retail — fast fashion. The fast fashion items people buy, wear twice, and then throw in landfills.

"Although I loved building and leading teams, consumerism is pretty gross to watch close up every day. I’d watch people buy stuff they didn’t need every hour of every day. After two decades of that, I no longer want many material things.

"I want my time. I want my health. I want to spend time with my family and friends and won’t trade that for a paycheck anymore.

"It’s not worth it.

"Gen. X is walking away, Millennials are fed up, and Gen. Z is already getting hip to the fact that the forty-hour work week no longer works." - Kit Campoy
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(*)Article: Goodbye Corporate. Good Luck. See You Never.

Kate Medley is a photojournalist living in Durham, North Carolina. Her new book, Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South, explores the complexities of the independent gas stations throughout the American South. The project took her 10 years and covers 11 states.
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(*)"In the book’s introduction, Medley writes, 'Our politics may be polarized, our economics stratified, our neighborhoods segregated, and our rhetoric strained, but still nearly everyone regularly passes through these same commercial spaces. We fill up the tank. We relieve our bladders. We grab a cold one on the way home from work. We take advantage of Friday night’s ‘prime rib special.’  We may rub elbows as we pass the ketchup. In an increasingly atomized world of mediated interactions, we have fewer and fewer communal spaces that unite us.'"
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(*)"...Far from the monolithic spaces of corporate capitalism, gas stations are as complex as the country itself. The National Association of Convenience Stores reports that there are 147,000 gas stations in the US. Of those, 127,888 are convenience stores that also sell gas. And 60 percent are owned and run by an individual family. In rural areas where it’s hard to get to a grocery store, gas stations become both restaurant and supermarket. In a country of vast spaces stitched together by streams of concrete, gas stations are indispensable places of culture, communion, and creativity." - Lyz Lenz
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(*)Article: What a Gas Station Really Means

"The design process found inspiration in existing solutions such as jerrycans, stackable objects resembling bricks, and user-friendly design principles akin to book spines. The container’s design was thoughtfully tailored to meet the requirements of users, transportation companies, and the company responsible for the cleaning and refilling of the containers."
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(*)Article: På(fyll) is a Circular Service Designed to Offer Refillable Containers

One-liners
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(*)Article: ‘Feminist website Jezebel will be relaunched by Paste Magazine less than a month after shutting down.
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(*)Article: Researchers have discovered that a part of the brain associated with working memory and multisensory integration may also play an important role in how the brain processes social cues.
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(*)Article: Italy bans lab grown meat to protect local industry
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(*)Article: 10 years of study shows overpaid CEOs underperform.
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(*)Article: Policing is not the answer to shoplifting, feeding people is
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(*)Article: More than half of generative AI adopters use unapproved tools at work

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