Erin Pettigrew

Jul 21 2010 LINK
“ Anything that removes complexity or cycles from your day is really valuable. I have freed a lot of bandwidth in my head.
— NYT explores a trend in minimal dressing, which also helps to explain why my sartorial life is so frequently monochromatic.
Jul 14 2010 LINK
“ I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza and neglected dreams, looking for angry meaning…whole intellects underscored and wiped clean in the total recall 24/7 365 assault all under the gaze of once brilliant eyes
— Oyl Miller reprises Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ as a self-aware commentary on our impending intellectual death by Internets. A must read: ‘Tweet.’ 
Jun 20 2010 LINK
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Heading into brunch at Commons on the last day of my first ever Yale College reunion.

Jun 03 2010 LINK
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Waiting my turn at the bottom of the ladder while someone else prepares to fly. The instructor kept looking over and asking if I was ‘so stoked’ to be a human pendulum. You bet I was.

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The flying trapeze rigging. Poles, nets, bars, ladders, pulleys, and carabiners that allow humans to fly.

May 09 2010 LINK
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Sneaking up on the pit crew.

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Walking the track at Darlington Raceway, South Carolina.

May 05 2010 LINK
“ I’d encourage anyone starting a startup to become one of its users, however unnatural it seems.
— Paul Graham in a minor footnote to his much larger point that startups should solve real (not imagined) problems. It all goes back to building off of what you know.