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Elon Musk went on stage yesterday at the New York Times Dealbook summit and had a complete meltdown. I’ve seen good pieces about the, uh, episode from Mike Masnick and Paris Marx, but it really seems like more people ought to be making fun of Elon today. (WTH?!? Did the worst person in the world die or something?) It’s really worth watching the video clip below. Transcripts don’t do it justice.

John Coltrane’s landmark LP Impressions opens with “India,” and the first thing we hear is Elvin Jones playing unaccompanied drums. Elvin Jones is beloved by all jazz musicians, and rightly so. The whole drum performance on “India” is one long fabulous sweep. It’s right in a pocket between medium and fast, and is just so damn swinging. There are plenty of antecedents to Elvin Jones’s churn, including Art Blakey for the African attitude and Max Roach for the technical and melodic perspective.

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture, both broadly construed. This is a brief installment, a meditation you might even say. As always, I hope you’ll find something worth thinking with, if not in my own words then in some of those I happily cite below. I don’t know why exactly we gravitate to certain writers or thinkers, not just as convenient citations we drop here and there, maybe to add a bit of heft to our own flimsy pronouncements or to have the sheen of their prose shine on our lackluster sentences—but as people, people we want to have in our heads and maybe even our hearts as we think through the business of making our way in the world.

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In this article, we will delve into Eminence Capital, a $7 billion AUM New York-based, single-manager hedge fund founded by Ricky Sandler in 1999. You'll discover Ricky's perspective on investing in quality businesses as a value investor, his strategies for shorting stocks, his insights on decision-making within a single-manager hedge fund, his view on the current market regime, and his advice for aspiring equity investors (hint: he has good news for you.

📢 Welcome, techno sapiens! A few announcements. First, given the many embedded photos, links, and videos in today’s post, I recommend reading it in your browser. Second, check out this week’s Parenting Understood podcast to hear me chat about teens, social media, and tips for tech parenting. Third, if you’re new here, subscribe to join thousands of other readers and get research-backed tips for living and parenting in the digital age.

Don’t worry everyone, no April Fools jokes here today this is a safe space… or is it? March has been a trying month for some but I was elated to see nuggets in the inbox nonetheless - THANK YOU! Fellow Encouragemailers, daytime is now 2 hours longer than it was at the beginning of March with over 12 hours of sunlight a day. By the end of April our day will be almost 15 hours long, go outside and get some photon exposure!

“You know, it’s called ‘From the Hip’”, I said to my friend as we sat in Robert’s Western World, the only good thing still left in Nashville, listened to some Sunday night Honky Tonk, watched the elders dance and split a bologna sandwich. I was desperately trying to figure out how to get back to this newsletter and she mentioned that her favorite Substack contributors were folks who just used it as a casual yet articulate space to connect, not simply allowing themselves to be overburdened by the pressure of performance in an era where there is hardly any time to restore and become re-inspired in solitude.

A magazine called Real Simple once asked me to write “a life lesson.” I thought and thought about what kind of lesson I wanted to share, and then wrote the following piece for them about twenty years ago. At that point, I was very obsessed with learning about narcissism because my lack of understanding seemed to be ruining my life. I should add here that at the time, we hadn’t yet elected a president who was offering us all a surgically precise example, daily, of every out of control narcissistic behavioral trait and threat so there weren’t articles about narcissism everywhere.