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“Your strength lives within your obsessions.”

Plus a farewell to the mathematician who put the chemical elements to music

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Leonie Mercedes
October 12, 2025

Good morning, lovelies. Here’s your three-part nudge for the day:

a prompt

Write on the following for 5–10 minutes:

What went well this week? What didn’t go as well? With this in mind, what will you do next week?

a thought

“Go with your guts. Your strength lives within your obsessions, your madness, not with the world outside of you.” – Shirin Neshat, via Survival Notes: Life Lessons from Contemporary Artists, by Lydia R. Figes

farewell

Tom Lehrer, mathematician and musician (1928–2025)

“In 2020 Lehrer abandoned the copyright on his songs, placing them in the public domain for use without fee. ‘Help yourselves, and don’t send me any money,’ he said on his website.”

Thanks for coming, dear makers and shakers. See you tomorrow ☕