There’s a quote I like from Theodor Adorno, who said, “for a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes place to live." While I’ve never been a refugee, I still feel that quote really strongly, as someone who’s never quite felt fully at home in most of my ordinary life– always a bit of an alien, always an outsider, always a minority, always ... See more
Notes versus Posts
With the dissolution of feudal, old-world bonds, new possibilities of economic and social mobility emerged, and this transience infected the soul. People began to wonder whether we possessed some innate essence that might be discovered by peeling away layers of our surface. Or maybe there was nothing innate, and we were always in the process of sel
... See moreHua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Advice to a young engineer considering moving to San Francisco: “Do you want to leave your friends behind? Or be the one left behind?”
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
A lot of us spend more time thinking about living somewhere else than we do figuring out how to feel more belonging in the place we already live.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
You could theoretically change your life at any moment. Move here, date that person, work on that startup, write that blog, dye your hair, adopt a dog. Should I stay, should I go? I don’t know if this agency is freedom or burden. Perhaps all the best things are both.