this path

Accepting the job offer involved a process of looking back at the last few years of my work and seeing, for the first time, a path that I hadn't realized I was on. Anything can seem like a path when you look back and make it one, but it was a surprising lesson to me that sometimes you're already, maybe unknowingly, cultivating the experiences that... See more

you’ve got to find a way to be inspired by your life.

Your strength is in choosing to work on something because it’s genuinely fun and interesting and you know you could be interested in it forever. This requires that you take it all personally.

interested in charting a different course to impact

“You didn’t represent failure. You represented confusion. Most people would pick a side. Either be a writer and hang out with the writers, if you can, or, if you can’t, then leave the place where the writers are and make common cause with the workers and only the workers. Laugh about the guests and not care about anything else while you’re on the... See more

nothing is permanent, and if you try to stick to one path it lessens the likelihood of you surprising yourself or finding open doors you didn't even know where there. Cultivate relationships. You will be OK, dear questioner.

If that sounds awkward – and inefficient – it was all part of the plan: they were discovering what could work, even in such adverse conditions, and cutting no corners.

It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.

I prefer to accumulate intensities until a turn of events forces itself on me as if outside my control.