things i always knew to be true

If you are an adult who still wants to write, it’s because you want to be heard. Feeling as if no one hears you, for a prolonged period of time, can lead to a kind of desperation, a kind of intense entitlement.

The very word slip suggests some sort of movement; you can't slip, after all, if you’re standing still.

With big technology companies working hard to get us to use — and trust — their products, they have an interest in rhetoric that makes their products come across as not just human-like but as human-like in ways that support our goals; they’re leaning into this particularly hard with AI models that generate language. To call big technology companies... See more

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.”

research shows that those who ask follow-up questions are better liked by their conversation partners