Crazy, half-baked idea (for 2025) comin' in hot...
The traveling diary experiment I'm dying to try. Would you do something like this?
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What if I created a traveling (anonymous) diary with a very specific thought-provoking question, and we see how fast it's filled up with brave confessions + real stories, and returned backed to me... assuming it is returned and this crazy social experiment is successful.
We could upvote the question in here + decide how to handle the diary transfers together.
By a show of hot dogs, who thinks I'm crazy??
I’ve wanted to do this for y-e-a-r-s… and I almost did once, but I told myself it was too far-fetched so relentlessly that I chickened out.
It feels like the right time to try + pull off something really human like this.
Maybe I am crazy.
Or, maybe I’m so fucking weird I naturally think outside the box like this… and that it’s time to truly embrace that so I can do the work I’m meant to do — help my kindreds see how much more rewarding life + business is when you put their health + happiness first.
🤷♀️ Jury’s still out… and so am I, for now.
I think bravely putting this half-baked idea out there is enough for this holiday week. I have a lot of random shenanigans planned for my son’s week off, and working on shit that can wait isn’t one of them; either is exposing myself to the Black Friday blitz, so this is my cue to start exiting internet stage left for a few days.
For those of you in the US… Happy Thanksgiving.
I hope you take the take time to savor what you have + how beautiful it all is.
Be better than big business…
Give yourself time OFF…
Eat some yummy shit…
Do some fun shit…
Make memories…
Rest…
All those human needs you have need to be met!
Anyone who tells you differently is full of piping hot buffalo balls, dipped in goat urine.
HERE COMES THE SHAMELESS ASK…
Would you pass this cart-sized post on to a friend and see what they think about this half-baked traveling diary idea? I worry that one Negative Nancy will spoil the whole idea before it gets wings, so I want to get it into the hands + hearts who’ll appreciate the ripples a human experiment like this could create.
Your batshit crazy internet friend,
Dre ‘Big, Weird Ideas’ Beltrami
P.S. Yup, we put the Christmas tree up this weekend. We’re not fucking around over here.
P.P.S. Did I just say “buffalo balls” + “goat urine” in the same email as “Happy Thanksgiving?” Awwww, look at me being all… ME. Growth, people! This broad is growing. 👈 And I bet this broad,
, the one who wrote the internet’s best article on what it means to be a “broad”… I bet she’s mentioned an animal’s anatomy when she wished someone a happy holiday, too. There are a bunch of us weirdos out here.
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I'll join you for this!
(As a joke, I almost started this note with, "Hmm, I hate to be a naysayer, but . . . ")😝
You know I’m in, Dre!
(Though, I may be light on secret confessions since I put all my dirty secrets into my newsletter!)
I may need to get up to more mischief. Shouldn’t be a problem. 🤣🤣