AFM | Wednesday, 12/5/2018 | #53
From the founding era. In 2018 this went out every weekday as a card, not an essay — so there is no narrative to publish here, and none has been invented. What follows is the edition itself, reconstructed from the two spreadsheets that recorded it.
This day in history
- 1865 Adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.
- Generate Energy
- Raise Necessity
- Increase Productivity
- Demonstrate Courage
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.— James Thurber
The answer
Juliet
The riddle itself wasn't kept. The index recorded the answer for every edition and the question for only some — this is one it didn't.
Aloha Friday Motivation
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