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	<title>Matthew T Grant</title>
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		<title>It Doesn&#8217;t Get Better, You Have to Make it Better</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/02/03/it-doesnt-get-better-you-have-to-make-it-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commiserating with a friend about jobs a few years back, it turned out that while we both expressed dissatisfaction with our then current situations, we were also pessimistic about finding attractive alternatives. [Ironic aside: Neither one of us is at the job we had then. For my part, the gigs I've done since have been, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is the Goal of Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Thinking Out Loud]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The primary goal of any business, is to stay in business. You need to bring in more money than you spend in order to stay in business (though, strictly speaking, you can stay in business by bringing in exactly as much as you spend). In order to bring in any money at all, you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In General</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/31/in-general/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking Out Loud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All generalizations are either false or tautologous. The goal of science is to create new generalizations. The goal of philosophy is to demonstrate that said generalizations are either false or tautologous. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps Yours Are Not the Eyes for These Posts</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/25/perhaps-yours-are-not-the-eyes-for-these-posts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/25/perhaps-yours-are-not-the-eyes-for-these-posts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[openness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you read these posts, you may say to yourself, &#8220;What the hell is this stuff? What&#8217;s he getting at? How can anyone take this seriously?&#8221; These posts may be meaningless, absurd, and frivolous to you. But maybe I&#8217;m not talking to you. Think about a time you heard a song that you found horrible, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Live in a World Without You</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/23/you-live-in-a-world-without-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/23/you-live-in-a-world-without-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grateful Dead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Garcia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wittgenstein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.matthewtgrant.com/?p=4554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Garcia once said something like, &#8220;You have to remember that we live in a world without a Grateful Dead.&#8221; It&#8217;s an interesting perspective. When you are the Grateful Dead, you are known to millions and adored by many. You are an object in the world of your fans and followers. But in your own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Enough Is Good Enough, OK?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/20/good-enough-is-good-enough-ok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pop culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relativism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I heard someone today say, &#8220;Nowadays, good enough just isn&#8217;t good enough.&#8221; I disagree. Good enough, by definition, is good enough. If it weren&#8217;t good enough, then it wouldn&#8217;t be. But behind the statement is a more general cultural consensus that one should never &#8220;settle for less&#8221; and, instead, strive for the amazing. &#8220;Go big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is the Meaning of This!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/18/what-is-the-meaning-of-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/18/what-is-the-meaning-of-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking Out Loud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[context]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The meaning of an action or event is never immanent to it. Instead, it resides in what happens next. Of course, the meaning of &#8220;what happens next&#8221; in turn depends on what happens after that. As Jonathan Culler apparently said, &#8221;Meaning is context-bound, but context is boundless.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Do the Things We Do</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/18/why-we-do-the-things-we-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/18/why-we-do-the-things-we-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking Out Loud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-awareness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People often do this or that, not because they want to do this or that, but because they want to be the kind of person who does this or that.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Intensity Belong in Music?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/09/does-intensity-belong-in-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/09/does-intensity-belong-in-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dillinger Escape Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mastodon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinariwen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.matthewtgrant.com/?p=4514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I came to consider the question posed in the title of this post after seeing Tinariwen on a Friday night and then, three days later, Mastodon and Dillinger Escape Plan. The second concert was undeniably &#8220;intense.&#8221; Dillinger Escape Plan play a frenetic brand of mathcore—the demonic love-child of hardcore and metal (particularly of the &#8220;technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homage to Saccharine Trust</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/12/22/homage-to-saccharine-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/12/22/homage-to-saccharine-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jack brewer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe baiza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Watt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychedelia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[punk rock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until the appearance/Of a lone ocean bird/Skimming over the choppy water/Airily eyeing after anchovies/And occasionally glancing at the people/Who had come to be at the beach/On the winter solstice &#8211; from &#8220;Estuary,&#8221; by Saccharine Trust I think it was in the late summer of 1981 that I jokingly suggested to my friends that we go [...]]]></description>
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