Feeling seen · Molly Mielke

The pressure to perform and live up to the expectations of others is not a new social phenomenon — nor a bad one. **^^But the way it manifests at the internet’s global scale increases its intensity tenfold — especially for young people. The goal is no longer to simply live up to the high expectations of your parents and peers — online you could be ... See more

The giving and the receiving of attention are both intimate acts.  These acts are the very basis of all human communications, and by extension, human societies.  Any  tools or technologies that mediate this act need to be designed with great care, to artfully maintain the human elements around this mutual expression of vulnerability

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“If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we could treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely love more ... See more

Caring personally is about doing things you already know how to do. It’s about acknowledging that we are all people with lives and aspirations that extend beyond those related to our shared work. It’s about finding time for real conversations; about getting to know each other at a human level; about learning what’s important to people; about sharin

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Looking back, it's crazy how work used to consume everything... like a machine that never stops.

I remember those nights... coding hanggang madaling araw, as if time doesn't exist. Feels like I was proud of it before - wearing those long hours like a badge of honor.

Pero deep inside, I was slowly burning out...

It's weird how we glorify the hustle cu... See more