oof
I’ve been there so many times, deep in the matrix of capitalism. Contorting my values and beliefs into a professional, ROI-shaped-object. It felt… not optional.
Sherry Ning wrote recently about this exact phenomenon in her piece how lucky are you allowed to get:
When I ask my friends how things are going and they’re doing well, they get shy. Most people can tolerate only a moderate dose of happiness before they begin to self-regulate. They grow suspicious of their own good fortune like they’ve stumbled upon... See more
When I ask my friends how things are going and they’re doing well, they get shy. Most people can tolerate only a moderate dose of happiness before they begin to self-regulate. They grow suspicious of their own good fortune like they’ve stumbled upon... See more
too much joy is exactly enough
Kaczynski believed modern society made us docile and miserable by depriving us of fulfilling challenges and eroding our sense of purpose. The brain evolved to solve problems, but the problems it had evolved for were now largely solved by technology. Most of us can now obtain all our basic necessities simply by being obedient, like a pigeon pecking... See more
Why Everything is Becoming a Game
they had rediscovered the abundance of time, but somehow it felt like time wasted.
— Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico
Today, we’re not just creatively stunted, inefficient and unsatisfied...
We’re actively sabotaging ourselves.
And worse, we’re calling it business as usual.
We’re actively sabotaging ourselves.
And worse, we’re calling it business as usual.
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
“It’s frustrating feeling like you are always waiting for someone to say yes”
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relatable on many levels
bite the peach
Joy moves like weather, sudden, undeserved, soaking everything it touches.
Most of us hesitate at the threshold, trying to decide if it’s safe to step into the light. But joy doesn’t linger for deliberation. It passes through, brief and dazzling, and what it leaves behind is not possession but trace: the shimmer of having been met.
It... See more
Joy moves like weather, sudden, undeserved, soaking everything it touches.
Most of us hesitate at the threshold, trying to decide if it’s safe to step into the light. But joy doesn’t linger for deliberation. It passes through, brief and dazzling, and what it leaves behind is not possession but trace: the shimmer of having been met.
It... See more
maja • too much joy is exactly enough
Lucy finds herself torn between the cynicism and mathematical practicality her job has hardened in her and a yearning romanticism she wishes she could be open to.
Dakota Johnson and director Celine Song rethink the rom-com with 'Materialists'
how much of this is us right now?