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grief feels like a second-level emotion for me. by that i mean, there's a class of emotions that feels easy and likely to arise on a day-to-day basis, like frustration or annoyance or even delight and affection. but one level below that, there's another class of emotions resting below the surface, like grief or despair or love-so-big-it-hurts, that

‘I’d have thought it’s the same when you write a book. Isn’t that how you start . . . looking for the shape?’

I was thrown by what Hawthorne had said because he was absolutely right. At the very start of the process, when I’m creating a story, I do think of it as having a particular, geometrical shape. For example, I was about to start work on

One lives as one can.

There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.

If that’s what you want you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.

The burnout epidemic in open source goes beyond money (though money is part of it). It happens when something that started as a gift, something built for fun or out of real care, gets conscripted into an economy of obligation and expectation. You wrote a library because you needed it and thought others might too. Now ten thousand developers depend

I used Twitter much like how comedians use comedy clubs. I riffed thoughts and ideas on our relationship to work, careers, organizations, and unconventional paths and would engage in conversations with people on the platform, jump on random video calls, and meet people in different parts of the world. It was a virtuous cycle. The more I shared, the

here are 25 first lines of notes on my timeline

• I don’t understand why people are…

• I never understood how anyone could…

• I’ve been having a lot of fun conversations with people who are…

• I sent a friend a piece I’m working on about how…

• Your brain is…

• Someone once told me they…

• As someone who obsessively…

• Came back from a work trip a couple