No one sees your life in the way that you do.” Our work is not to see people’s possibilities for them, but rather to help them see their possibilities for themselves. Encouragement, shared experience, positive beliefs, vision writing, dignity-based living, hope, a healthy sense of support, love, and the willingness to lean in even if, and when,... See more

The gift with the highest return: believing in someone before they believe in themselves.

Nobody had ever believed in me like that. Before S, I had a succession of boyfriends who liked my precocity, my verbosity, and my nerve, but they were also kind of like: well, maybe you should go back to school? Maybe you should get a normal job? Maybe you should try to work at OpenAI? (Honestly, the latter was pretty great advice.) Which I get:... See more