Do it!

I read recently about “joining a tradition you respect” when deciding on your career/life’s work and I really enjoy that line of thinking

christine x.com

X. It’s what’s happening

I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Dune Quotes x.com

if feeling helpless (low agency), the best way to begin rebuilding faith in your agency is by focusing on what you have the most control over: your attention and where you direct it to

orph x.com

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

For a long time I’d wanted to get a dog, but I had carried this belief that I shouldn’t do it, shouldn’t tie myself down. Some people would say, Don’t get a dog while you’re still single! which really meant, You wouldn’t want to make yourself unappealing to a man who doesn’t like dogs!

Jean • My best friend and my witness

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

— Howard Thurman

Starlight Leadership

More than half of the value of writing an essay lies in how it forces you to reorganize and refine your thoughts. The finished essay itself is a bonus.

François Chollet x.com

The Third Chair

Henrik Karlsson henrikkarlsson.xyz