Quaint Quips About Humanity

For little sentences that appear in unassuming places about what it means to live life as a human creature... All the weirdness, emotions, beauty, confusion, contrasting amalgams and everything in between.

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I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”

Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age

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You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.

Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

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Butterflies Lovers

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To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”

Shaun Wang • The Meta-Creator Ceiling

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we do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Edgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

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Contrasted with all the oppressive, maybe harmful, apps that you may have on your phone, the Notes app serves as a playful reminder that we’re all just works in progress.

The iPhone’s Notes App Is the Purest Reflection of Our Messy Existence

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