Is This Real Life?
Maud Newton (@maudnewton.bsky.social)
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as if the worst thing in the world is unstructured free time.
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I love it when elle posts stuff like this. She’s always so insightful.
Abraham Maslow knows what’s up.
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The number of people reading a post or following an account is not a useful indicator of whether or not the ideas within are made up or not.
The Weekly World News version of the future
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
My instinct is to say that I’ve gotten more confident, but anyone who’s done this knows that confidence is an illusion. One day’s good work doesn’t mean anything. You’re still at the whim of the gods about how the next day is going to go.